Schuyler County Missouri Biographies

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Schuyler County Missouri

Charles W. Bunch

Charles W. Bunch, county clerk, is a native of Davis County, Iowa, and was born in 1851. His parents. Dr. David and Aditha (Walker) Bunch, are natives of Indiana. During his youth the father engaged in milling in Iowa, and removed to Davis County in 1850. During the war he began to study medicine, and attended the medical college at Keokuk, Iowa. In 1865 he came to Lancaster, Mo., and practiced until 1869, when he returned to Davis County, Iowa, where hie has since resided, but on account of poor health has not been actively engaged at his profession. The mother was born in Indiana and is also living.

Our subject is the fourth of twelve children and received his early education at the common schools. In the fall of 1865 he came to Schuyler County and worked on a farm, and afterward worked at the carpenter trade. He then clerked in a store at Lancaster for six or seven years, and in 1877 began business on his own responsibility, but in 1878 was elected county treasurer of Schuyler County, and re-elected in 1880. During 1883 and 1884 he farmed, and in 1885 went into the drug and grocery business. In the fall of 1886 he was elected clerk of the county court by a majority of ninety votes.

September 30, 1887, he married Miss Dora N. Brown, daughter of Jason W. and Eliza (DeCorse) Brown, whose respective births occurred in 1826, in Berkshire County, Mass., and 1835, at Wilmington, Del. Mrs. Bunch was born in Shelby County, Ill., in 1854, and has borne our subject one son, Roy B. In politics Mr. Bunch is a Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for U. S. Grant. His wife is a worthy member of the Christian Church.

Source: History of Adair, Sullivan, Putnam and Schuyler Counties, Missouri, Volume 2, Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888

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