Wm. C. Gunn, proprietor of the Liberal, of Cuthbert, Ga., was born in Walton County, Fla., June 30, 1844. His parents were Daniel G. and Margaret (Campbell) Gunn, both born in North Carolina. The father was taken to Florida when a boy by his parents and settled in Euche Valley. There he was reared on the farm and received an academical education. In early life he was a merchant, but his latter days were spent on the farm, where he died in 1872, at the age of sixty years. He was quite a distinguished man in his county, and several times represented his county and district in the Florida legislature, and was a member of the first legislature that met after the war. He held the position of internal revenue assessor in west Florida for several years. He was an F. & A. M. and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
Wm. C., the subject of this sketch, is the second of a family of six children. He received an academical education in Walton County, Fla. In March, 1862, he joined the Confederate service as a private in Company A, of the Sixth Florida, and served throughout the war. He then taught school for a year or so in Washington County, Fla., then went to Cuthbert, Ga., and followed clerking and bookkeeping until 1871. He then filled the position of city editor on the Macon Telegraph for a year, when he returned to Cuthbert and took his old position, which he held until 1875. After teaching school a year he carried on the mercantile business at Minneola, Texas, for a short time, and then clerked in Eufaula, Ala., until 1879, when he moved to Shorterville, Ala., and kept books for a firm and carried on planting until 1884. He moved to Birmingham, Ala., and entered the newspaper business again as a local reporter and business manager of the Chronicle, but soon after left there to accept a similar position on the Pensacola Commercial, which position he held until November 1, 1885. He then returned to Cuthbert, Ga., and established the Liberal, a Democratic organ, which he is still running. December 22, 1869, he was married to Miss Neta Callaway, daughter of John H. and Sarah (Douglas) Callaway, early settlers in Randolph County, Ga. She is the mother of two children, Edwin C. and Little Neta. Mr. Gunn and wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.
Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida: Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and many Early Settled Families in These States (Chicago: F. A. Battey & Company) 1889, pages 349-350.
Burial: Rosedale Cemetery, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.