{"id":389,"date":"2018-11-30T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=389"},"modified":"2018-11-30T23:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:22:22","slug":"william-campbell-gunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"William Campbell Gunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wm. C. Gunn, proprietor of the\u00a0<em>Liberal<\/em>, of Cuthbert, Ga., was\u00a0born in Walton County, Fla.,\u00a0June 30, 1844. His parents were Daniel\u00a0G. and Margaret (Campbell) Gunn, both\u00a0born in North Carolina. The father was\u00a0taken to Florida when a boy by his parents\u00a0and settled in Euche Valley. There he\u00a0was reared on the farm and received an\u00a0academical education. In early life he\u00a0was a merchant, but his latter days were\u00a0spent on the farm, where he died in 1872,\u00a0at the age of sixty years. He was quite a\u00a0distinguished man in his county, and several times represented his county and\u00a0district in the Florida legislature, and was\u00a0a member of the first legislature that met\u00a0after the war. He held the position of\u00a0internal revenue assessor in west Florida\u00a0for several years. He was an F. &amp; A. M.\u00a0and a member of the Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>Wm. C., the subject of this sketch, is\u00a0the second of a family of six children. He\u00a0received an academical education in Walton County, Fla. In March, 1862, he\u00a0joined the Confederate service as a private\u00a0in Company A, of the Sixth Florida, and\u00a0served throughout the war. He then\u00a0taught school for a year or so in Washington County, Fla., then went to Cuthbert,\u00a0Ga., and followed clerking and bookkeeping until 1871. He then filled the position\u00a0of city editor on the Macon <em>Telegraph<\/em> for\u00a0a year, when he returned to Cuthbert and\u00a0took his old position, which he held until\u00a01875. After teaching school a year he\u00a0carried on the mercantile business at\u00a0Minneola, Texas, for a short time, and then\u00a0clerked in Eufaula, Ala., until 1879, when\u00a0he moved to Shorterville, Ala., and kept\u00a0books for a firm and carried on planting\u00a0until 1884. He moved to Birmingham,\u00a0Ala., and entered the newspaper business\u00a0again as a local reporter and business\u00a0manager of the <em>Chronicle<\/em>, but soon after\u00a0left there to accept a similar position on\u00a0the Pensacola <em>Commercial,<\/em> which position\u00a0he held until November 1, 1885. He\u00a0then returned to Cuthbert, Ga., and established the <em>Liberal<\/em>, a Democratic organ,\u00a0which he is still running. December 22,\u00a01869, he was married to Miss Neta Callaway, daughter of John H. and Sarah\u00a0(Douglas) Callaway, early settlers in Randolph County, Ga. She is the mother of\u00a0two children, Edwin C. and Little Neta.\u00a0Mr. Gunn and wife are members of the\u00a0Presbyterian Church.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Xu8RAQAAIAAJ&amp;dq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biographical Souvenir of the States of Georgia and Florida<\/a>: Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and many Early Settled Families in These States<\/em> (Chicago: F. A. Battey &amp; Company) 1889, pages 349-350.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Burial: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findagrave.com\/memorial\/91624456\/william-campbell-gunn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rosedale Cemetery<\/a>, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wm. C. Gunn, proprietor of the\u00a0Liberal, of Cuthbert, Ga., was\u00a0born in Walton County, Fla.,\u00a0June 30, 1844. His parents were Daniel\u00a0G. and Margaret (Campbell) Gunn, both\u00a0born in North Carolina. The father was\u00a0taken to Florida when a boy by his parents\u00a0and settled in Euche Valley. There he\u00a0was reared on the farm and received an\u00a0academical education. 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