The History of Hendricks County (Chicago: Interstate Publishing, 1885)--Clay Township, pages 553-554
Josephus B. Gambold, of the firm of Draper & Gambold, general merchants, Coatesville, Ind., is a son of John C. Gambold, one of the pioneers of Hendricks County. John C. Gambold was born in Pennsylvania, in November, 1805. His parents died when he was a child and he was placed in a family named Green and with them went to North Carolina and was reared in a Moravian settlement. He was married to Nancy Swaim, a native of that State, and in 1834 they came to Indiana in company with Joseph Elrod and family located in Wayne County. In 1835 he moved to Hendricks County and settled in Clay Township. In 1856 he started for Minnesota, and before reaching his destination, at Dalhi, Delaware Co., Iowa, in January, 1857, his wife died. The family remained in Minnesota till 1859, and then returned to Clay Township, where the father died June 2, 1870. His family comprised ten children, six of whom are living--Levi S., Eri A., Louisa C., Mary J., Josephus B. and Cynthia A. Josephus B. Gambold was born in Clay Township, Oct. 18, 1839. Aug. 7, 1861, he enlisted in Company A, Twenty-seventh Indiana Infantry, and served three years and two months. He participated in the battles of Winchester, Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg; was transferred west and participated in the Atlanta Campaign. He escaped without injury save a slight wound at Dallas, Ga. After his return from the war he was employed by the Terre Haute and Indiana Division of the Vandalia Railroad till 1872, and the next three years by Pierson, Fellows & Stanley, merchants of Coatesville. In 1882 he formed his present partnership with Mahlon B. Draper. He was married to Mary E. Brown, of Putnam County, Ind. They have two children--Charles and Ella E.