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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 481-482]

    W. J. BUNTING has been a resident of Pilot Township since 1869.
    He has the honor of coming from the Buckeye State, born in Musk-
    ingum County, near Zanesville, January 28, 1839. He is a son of
    ROBERT and NAOMI (HICKMAN) BUNTING, natives of the State of Vir-
    ginia.  They were married in Muskingum County, and when W. J. was
    fourteen years old they determined to try the fortunes of pioneer
    life, and so removed to Jones County, Iowa, in 1853.  They lived
    there the remainder of their days.  The subject of this notice was
    reared to the occupation of a farmer, and obtained his education
    by attending the winter terms of the district school.  During the
    winter of 1869 he traveled through Kansas, and returned to Iowa,
    and took out a homestead of eighty acres of Government land; he
    then set about the task of placing this under cultivation, an
    undertaking that required no small amount of courage; his efforts
    have been successful, and he now owns one of the most desirable
    farms in the neighborhood.  There is a comfortable dwelling,
    pleasantly situated in the midst of shade trees, two acres of grove,
    a barn and other good buildings for stock and grain.  Mr. BUNTING
    also owns eighty acres of land three-quarters of a mile east of
    his home farm, in Pitcher Township, which is under good cultivation.
    He was married March 31, 1874, to Miss MARIA WILLSON, a native of
    the State of New York, and a daughter of P. A. and LUCINDA (FLINT)
    WILLSON.  Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. BUNTING:
    MERTON L., IDA N., EARL S. and ARTHUR W.  In politics Mr. BUNTING
    casts his vote with the Independent party.  He is a man in the prime
    of life, social in his disposition, and the possessor of many warm
    friends in the county.

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