BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS

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GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA
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WITH REMINISCENCES OF PIONEER DAYS
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VOLUME II.
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ILLUSTRATED
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INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 
1908
B. F. BOWEN & CO.

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pp 554-555
JOHN C. GILLILAND

   One of the children of James H. Gilliland, the subject of the preceding biography*, was John C. Gilliland, whose home is in Bloomfield. He was born June 27, 1857, in Jackson township, Greene county, and has been closely connected with the business growth of the county.
   He received his education in the schools of the county, and remained at home on the farm until reaching his majority. He then took up bookkeeping, beginning with Duggar, Whittaker & Company. After some time he filled a similar place with other business firms of the city, being connected at one time in a like capacity with the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Building and Loan company. For six years he was secretary and treasurer of the Home Light and Water Company. These facts point strongly towards characteristics that are at once creditable and somewhat rare. Mr. Gilliland possessed the faculty of managing the records and tabulating proceedings in such an exact and methodical way that his services were highly appreciated and constantly in demand.
   He won the confidence and esteem of his fellow townsmen to such a degree that he was for twelve years prevailed upon to act as treasurer for the city.
   He takes a genuine interest in the religious welfare of the community, being an elder in the Christian church.
   On November 26, 1889, he was joined in marriage to Ella Hulse, a native of Morgan county, Indiana, a daughter of John F. and Elizabeth Hulse, both natives of this state. Their only daughter, Marguerite, died at the age of two years. He is a Republican.

* Refer to the biography of James Harvey Gilliland of Green Co., Indiana, which is also in the library collection. John C. was the son of James Harvey Gilliland.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010