C. P. GUNNERSON, dealer in grain and farmer's produce and proprietor of the Farmers' Shipping Elevator, which was erected in the summer of 1880, size of which is 24X70 feet, and thirty-five feet high, with a capacity of 6,000 bushels; built at a cost of $3,000. He was born in Sweden, June 20, 1847, and was raised on a farm. Came to America in 1856, locating in Bureau County, Ill., where he lived seven years, thence to Ford County, the same State, four years. He came to Saline County, Kansas, in 1868, and farmed until 1879, when he began the grain business. Married in 1873, to Miss Emma F. Myers, a native of Sweden. They have two children - Mark S. and Paul L. He is a member of the Swedish Lutheran Church and Trustee of Smoky Hill Township, City Council of Lindsborg and a member of the school board of Lindsborg.
Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, McPherson County, page 5, www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/books/cutler/