My Genealogy Hound

WILLIAM W. GORMLY was born in Lawrence county, Pa., and is a son of David Gormly, also a native of Pennsylvania, and a carpenter by trade, and at present a resident of Allegheny City. David Gormly married Miss Meluzena Clements, a daughter of John Clements, a boiler-maker of Ohio. To this union have been born four children, of whom William W., our subject, is the youngest. One daughter married William McFate, and lives in Custer county, this state; one son is in the milling business at Kearney city.

William W. Gormly was reared on a farm, and at the age of twenty-two left Pennsylvania and passed a year in Missouri, then went to Kansas and worked as a farm hand until 1880, when he came to Nebraska, and for three years stopped at Shelton, Buffalo county, working as a miller; he then took a mill at Lowell, Kearney county, which he conducted one year; in the spring of 1885 he bought his present homestead — the southeast quarter of section 12, township 7, range 14 — which had been entered as a timber claim by another party who had set out ten acres in timber, and this was the only improvement that had been made. Mr. Gormly has now seventy-five acres under cultivation in mixed crops, and has a good dwelling and farm buildings, and plenty of live stock.

In 1883, Mr. Gormly married Miss Alice, daughter of Jason Bloodgood. Mr. Bloodgood is a native of Pennsylvania, who moved to Iowa, but in 1876 came to Nebraska, and at present is a large land owner in Kearney county. He served in the Union army during the late rebellion, was twice wounded, and is now receiving a pension. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Gormly has been blessed with three children, viz. — Jason, Meluzena and Amy. Mr. Gormly is a democrat, and has served one term as town treasurer; he is now filling the office of justice of the peace.