SAMUEL GAMBLE

    Samuel Gamble, a farmer and a native of Clark County, Ohio, was born October 10, 1819.  He is a son of Robert and Catharine (Bennett) Gamble.  His father emigrated from Ireland with hid parents when eighteen years old, and settled in Pennsylvania, where he married and subsequently removed to Kentucky, thence to Clark County, Ohio, before the war of 1812.  Mr. Gamble enlisted and served in the war of 1812, and in 1832 removed with his family to Leesburg Township, this county, where he purchased 100 acres of land.  He died in 1839, aged fifty; his wife died in 1833.  They had nine children, of whom our subject is the second son.  He was reared to manhood on a farm and educated in schools held in log cabins. September 15, 1839, he married Mary, daughter of Samuel and Phebe Lyman.  Mrs. Gamble was. born in Franklin County, Ohio, December 10, 1820.  Of nine children by this marriage five are living-John C., Catharine, wife of William Wingfield, Samuel E., George M. and Elmer E.; Robert, William, Mary A., Harriet and Phebe are deceased.  Robert and William enlisted in 1862 in Company E, Eighteenth Regiment of regular troops.  They participated in battle of Perryville, where they were taken prisoners.  After one year they were released, and joined their regiment and were engaged in toe battle of Chickamauga, where William was captured and confined in Libby Prison one month, and while being taken to Andersonville took Rick at Danville, and died in December 1863. Robert was slightly wounded at Lookout Mountain, and discharged August 1864. He died in Kosciusko County, Ind., in May 1866.  Mr. Gamble moved to his farm in Dover Township in 1856.  He owned at one time 400 acres, but has divided with his children till his farm now contains but 240 acres.  He has made all his property by industry and economy, and has been a successful man.