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History of Northern Wisconsin
pub: The Western Historical Company,
     Chicago, 1881


         [page 169]
         
         GILE O. BUMP, wagon-maker, Mondovi, was born in Washington
       Co., N.Y., on the 5th of September, 1839, and came with his
       parents to Wisconsin in 1856, locating in the town of Naples. 
       His step-father, ROBERT NELSON, built the first frame house 
       in this town, and was also the first Postmaster, holding that 
       position for fifteen years. He died in 1874. The subject of 
       this sketch remained at home on the farm until August of 1862, 
       when he enlisted in the 25th Wis., Co. G. V. I., serving un-
       til the close of the war. He had three brothers who were also 
       in the war, two of them being in the same company and regi-
       ment with himself, and who served until the war closed. GILE O. 
       was with Sherman on his "march to the sea," and was also in a 
       good many other important engagements. After the war, he re-
       turned home and learned the trade of wagon-making, and has 
       followed that ever since. He is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
       Mondovi Lodge, No. 23, and of the Good Templars, being a 
       temperance man in every sense of the word. He was married 
       in the Spring of 1870, to Miss MINNIE MORSE, daughter of the 
       REV. B. F. MORSE, of Mondovi. Their family consists of three 
       sons - CLAYTON C., BENJAMIN F. and HERBERT LEE.
       
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