Gunnison

John V. Gunnison, the popular High Sheriff of Sullivan County, son of Vinal and Eliza (Baker) Gunnison, was born in Goshen, N.H., on February 27, 1837. Ephraim Gunnison, father of Vinal, was a pioneer settler of Goshen, where he cleared the wild land by the labor of his hands. A hard worker and a man of great vitality, he lived to be eighty-five years old. His wife, Deborah, died at eighty-seven years of age. He was a Methodist Episcopal in religion, a Democrat in politics. Their son Vinal was the fifth son in a family of seven children. He followed … Read more