Biography of William S. Gaskill
From HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY
W. H. Beers [Chicago, 1883]
Page 1038-39
WILLIAM S. GASKILL, retired, P.O. South Solon. The subject of this sketch, one of the Justices of the Peace in Stokes Township, Madison County, Ohio, was born in Clinton County, Ohio, September 6, 1826, adn was a son of Eli and Hannah (Smith) Gaskill, both natives of Pennsylvania, where they were married. Eli was married twice; his first wife was Catharine Campbell, with whom he emigrated to Ohio, and settled in Waren County, in 1804, where they remained until her death, which occurred in 1816. In 1822, he married Hannah Smith, his second wife, and moved to Todds Fork, one and three-quarters miles north of Wilmington, in Clinton County, Ohio, where he remained until his death. He was a member of the Ohio Legislature from 1831 to 1836, a position he filled with honor to himself and his constituents. William S. Gaskill was married June 26, 1848, to Miss Jane Hutson, who was born December 7, 1827, and was a daughter of John and Hannah Hutson. William, when twenty-two years of age, engaged in farming for himself, a business he followed until within the last few years. He is now retired. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskill are the parents of nine children, of whom eight survive — hannah A., Calvin H., Walter S., Maria Louisa, Mary Belle, Nettie E., Albert S., and John E. Mr. and Mrs. Gaskill live in South Solon, Ohio, and have a very pleasant home, surrounded with the comforts of life.
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