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GILBIRDS, C. H., roadmaster on the Wabash Railway; residence, Clayton; was born in Yates county, N. Y., May 2, 1834. He is the son of John and Sarah (Freelove) Gilbirds; his father was a native of England, his mother of Vermont; both dead. In 1846 he removed to Michigan, where he remained one year; then returned to Monroe county, N. Y., lived there two years; then removed to Toledo, O., thence to Logansport, Ind., thence to Lafayette, Ind., thence to Brown county, Ill., in 1858, and finally settled in Clayton, Adams county, in 1865. He has been engaged in railroading since 1853, on the same road, never missing a day from duty in twenty-five years. He now has charge of the Wabash road in all its branches, from Springfield, Ill., west; in all 225 miles of main line and sixty-five miles of side track. Through his instrumentality a shop has been established at Clayton for sawing off defective parts of defective rails, and dressing up worn rails, by which many thousand dollars are saved to the Company yearly. He married Minerva J. Stiner, April 9, 1863. They have one child, Lulu, born in August, 1865. He is a member of the Masonic Order, of the Commandry, and the Knight Templars. He lives in one of the prettiest homes in Adams county, surrounded with birds, flowers and natural curiosities, mineral collections, etc.