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** RETURN TO BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX ** ** RETURN TO HISTORY CONTENTS **   HENRY GAILEY - Page 466, Ross Twp.   JOHN GARBER - Page 481, Fairfield Twp.   GEORGE GARBET - Page 557, St. Clair Twp.   JOSEPH GARAVER - Page 466, Ross Twp.   SAMUEL B. GARVER - Page 557, St. Clair Twp.   SAMUEL GATH - Page 536, Oxford Twp.   WILLIAM S. GILMORE - Page 480, Fairfield Twp.   MARTIN GOEBEL - Page 605, Madison Twp.   CHARLES GORSUCH - Page 496, Liberty Twp.   DAVID B. GORSUCH - Page 584, Union Twp.   PETER L. GORSUCH - Page 495, Liberty Twp.   THOMAS GORSUCH - Page 495, Liberty Twp.   JAMES THOMPSON GRAY, of Reily Township, was born in Franklin County, Indiana, December 27, 1819, removing to this county in 1833. His parents were Samuel Gray and Margaret Hiles. He was married on the second day of March, 1843, to Martha Ann Hidlay, daughter of Henry and Sarah Hidlay, who was born in Butler County in 1824. They have had five children. Sarah Eliza was born January 14, 1844; Phebe Harriet, November 4, 1846; Samuel Lerton, November 16, 1848; John Dinborn, April 19, 1854; and James Elmore, April 11, 1858. Mr. Gray was elected township trustee in 1852, and held the office for eight consecutive years. In October, 1881, he was elected county treasurer, and was to have taken his seat on the first Monday in September, 1882, but died very suddenly some three weeks before. Mr. Gray followed the business of buggy and carriage blacksmith. . ROBERT GRAY - Page 481, Fairfield Twp.   WILLIAM GRAY - Page 584, Union Twp.   CAPTAIN ISRAEL GREGG, for many years a prominent steamboat man, was for a long time a resident of Hamilton. He was born on the 20th of February, 1775, in Virginia, but .his parents, who were adventurous pioneers, removed to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, shortly after, where, on attaining a sufficient age, he was taught the art of a silversmith, and on reaching his majority set up for himself. Two years after, or on the 12th of July, 1798, he married Elizabeth Hough, one of the younger children of a Quaker family, and sister of Joseph Hough, for twenty years the leading merchant of Hamilton. Another brother, Benjamin, was auditor of the State of Ohio from 1808 to 1815.       Mr. Gregg afterwards became interested in steamboating, and in 1814 was in command of the steamboat Enterprise, built at Brownsville by Daniel French, on his patent, and owned by a company at that place. It was a boat of forty-five tons. It made two voyages to Louisville in the Summer of 1814. In December she took in a cargo of ordnance stores at. Pittsburgh, and sailed for New Orleans, arriving at that port on the 14th of the same month. She was then dispatched up the river in search of two keelboats, laden with small arms, which had been delayed on the river. She had reached twelve miles above Natchez when she met the boats, took their masters and cargoes on board, and returned to New Orleans, having been out six and a half days, in which time she ran two hundred and sixty-four miles. She was then for some time actively employed in transporting troops, etc. She made one voyage to the Gulf of Mexico, as a cartel, and one voyage to the rapids of Red River with troops, and nine voyages to Natchez. She set out for Pittsburg on the 6th of May, and arrived at Shipping port on the 30th, twenty-four days out, being the first steamboat that ever arrived at that port from New Orleans. She then proceeded to Pittsburg, where her arrival was warmly greeted, as the passage from the sea by the means of steam had been successfully accomplished for the first time. Captain Gregg afterwards commanded the Dispatch, a small boat of twenty-five tons, built at Brownsville, which was wrecked near New Orleans in 1819, and he continued as a com­mander in the river service for several years after.      He then became an inhabitant of Hamilton, where he dwelt the remainder of his days. He was elected sheriff of Butler County in 1835, and served four years, also holding other orifices of trust and responsibility. By his first wife he had eleven children, who are now all dead. Upon her decease he married Mrs. Phebe Kelley, of Rossville, an aunt of William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, on Thursday, the 5th of December, 1822, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. H. Baker. By this  marriage he had two children: Jane H, now the wife of J. C. Skinner, and Sarah, widow of Samuel Cary. He died on the 20th of June, 1847, aged seventy-three years. He was a man of great uprightness and benevolence, and his memory is still cherished by those who knew him.   SAMUEL & SARAH GREGORY - Page 496, Liberty Twp.   GOTTLIEB GRESSLE - Page 481, Fairfield Twp.   JOHN GRIFFIS - Page 496, Liberty Twp.   HIRAM GUDGEON, the son of William and Nancy Gudgeon, was born in Tyler County, West Virginia, Oct. 12, 1821.  He came to this county in 1869.  On the 21st of December, 1851, he was married to Christine E. McDonald, born in Canada East, October 12, 1826, and the daughter of Patrick and Bridget McDonald.  The parents of both are dead.  Mr. and Mrs. Gudgeon have had the following children:  Charles W., Caroline E. Peterman, John F., William H., Effie C., Hiram W. S., and Thomas J.  He was postmaster in Jacksonburg for two years, beginning May 8, 1879, and served until July 1, 1881.  HE was also mayor at the same place, beginning Apr. 1, 1879, and served until Apr. 1, 1881.  His grandfather, and also father, served in the War of 1812.  His brothers, James D. Gudgeon, William H. Gudgeon, Charles W. Gudgeon, and Franklin B. Gudeon, were all in the war, and were all so fortunate as to come home without any serious wounds, excepting Charles W., who had his shoulder dislocated by a horse falling on him.  William H. had his shoulder dislocated in the State service, at the time of the capture of John Morgan.  He was also injured at the battle of Vicksburg, while he was in the gunboat service, being at that time on the Pittsburgh.- Page 616, Wayne Twp.   The GWILYMS, of whom Morgan is the progenitor on this side of the Atlantic, came to America in 1768, and married Elizabeth Evans, in Butler county.  His brother William came to America in 1795, and stopped on the Red Stone River, in Pennsylvania, for a few months, where he aided in making the first iron west of this Alleghenies.  In 1798 he came down the Ohio and took up his residence as a squatter on Blue Rock, in Colerain Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, and in 1802 settled on Paddy's Run, in Morgan Township.  He died in 1845, and his wife in 1862.  The marriage produced five children, one dying in infancy; four of whom grew to maturity.  John Green Vaughn was born January 21, 1827, and is married and lives in Marion County, Illinois; Martha Ann, born November 12, 1832, is now the wife of Abner Francis, of Ross Township; William Crosby, born February 25, 1835, is unmarried, and lives with his mother, in New London; Mary Bebb, born October 28, 1846, is the wife of Rees H. Evans, of this township.  William Vaughn received from his father about ninety acres of land, on which he commenced life for himself, rising constantly in the estimation of his fellow citizens.  He was chosen captain of the State militia, and served as the first postmaster of Paddy's Run, which office he held until about 1847.  At the time of his death, November 22, 1851, he owned two hundred and twenty acres of land.     NOTES: