After Twenty Years
Successful Service in the Business, Mr. Nathaniel Gandy Retires
Fifty years ago, Nathaniel Gandy arrived in Marshall countv.
He was but a year old at the time, but was a bouncing boy and had the appearance of a lad that would make
his mark in the world. His boyhood days were spent in Polk township ona farm situated ten miles north of
Plymouth. For several years after his arrival in this county the Indians were his next door neighbors, and
the meat used upon the table consisted of venison and other wild game, of which there was an abundance.
For several years he attended the district schools aud procured what education the circumstances would permit,
as the school houses were few aud far between.
When he was 19 years old he enlisted and was enrolled in the 33rd Indiana Infantry, and remained at the front
until the close of the war, when he returned to Marmont and engaged as a farmer, and followed the busiiness for
ten years, when he sold his farm and engaged in the livery business at Bremen, and successfully carried on the same for one year,
when he sold out and established a livery at Plymouth which he conducted successfully for eight years,
when he sold his interests and came to Marmont, where he has resided ever siuce, most ot the time being
engaged in the livery business.
It is a conceded fact that Than is “law when it wflfnes to talking of the good
qualities of a horse, and is considered as good a veterinary surgeon as can be found anywhere. During all these years he
has become well know all over the country by noted horsemen, and we are safe in saying that no man in the country
has more friends than Nathaniel Gandy, whose ambition through life has been to treat everybody "on the square".
Last July, nearly a year ago, he has a stroke of paralysis, and for weels he lay upon his bed, and but little hopes were
entertained of his recovery, but through careful nursing and having naturally robust constitution, he weathered the blast
and is today in a fair way of being restored to permanent health.
Yet, he was wholly unfit to look after his interests in the livery business, and after twenty years serce to the publice he
retires, having sold out his interests in the barns here to his partner, Mr. Abram Hayes, the transaction occurring Saturday,
the 27th inst., and in retiring feels that he has left the business in good hands as no more conscientious or honorable men
than Hayes and Son can be found.
We understand that Mrs. Gandy will sell vechiles of every discription this summer, a business he thorughly understands, and
we predict, if his health is fully restores, he will enter the livery business again somewhere, for really the business of a man's
life is not so easily given up.
In the meantime the Herald wishes the new firm success. 2 Apr. 1897
See Gandy Ancestry