ARMER T. GUNNETT, farmer, was born at Frankfort Springs, Allegheny county, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1850, first son of Joseph and Caroline (Harford) Gunnett, who were natives of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he resided on a farm previous to moving to Sangamon County, in 1872, and located in buffalo Hart, township, where they now reside. Armer G. received his education in the common schools of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and afterwards spent two years in the Pikerton Normal school of Ohio. He came to Sangamon county in the spring of 1872, and engaged in farming; was married December 25, 1878, to Nannie E. Riddle, who was born in Sangamon county, February 20, 1852, and the daughter of John and Martha (Archer) Riddle. Her father was a native of Ohio. Previous to coming to this county he died, November 6, 1878; her mother was born in Bond county, Illinois; she now resides with them on the farm. They own two hundred acres of land in Curran and Gardner townships, which is under a fair state of cultivation, and worth $60 per acre. His wife was educated in the common schools of this county; she attended the Female Seminary at Jacksonville two terms. They are both members of the M. E. Church at New Salem, and politically he is a Republican.