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HISTORY OF THE LOWER SCIOTO VALLEY, OHIO:  together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens.. Chicago: Inter-state Pub. Co., 1884.

HUGH GILLILAND, son of Samuel and Sarah (Krouskop) Gilliland, was born Feb. 5, 1824, in Jackson County where he was reared a farmer and received a limited education. He was employed as a teamster at Jackson Furnace for ten years and during that time saved $1,000, which he invested successfully in lands. Since then he has been engaged in farming and dealing in stock, and is the possessor of a farm of 440 acres in Franklin Township, 320 acres in Jefferson Township, and 310 acres where he resides, in Lick Township. He also has $10,000 in the Tropic Iron Furnace. He was married March 1, 1849, to Nancy, daughter of Charles and Margaret Slavens, pioneers of Pike County, where her father died at the age of seventy-five years. Her mother is living yet, aged eighty-four years. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland, one son and six daughters. The son died at the age of twenty-two years. One daughter died when thirty-one years old and the other at the age of eighteen years. Mr. Gilliland has served one term as Trustee of Franklin Township. His parents settled in Jackson County in 1817. His father died at the age of sixty-four years and his mother at the age of fifty-five years.

NATHAN B. GILLILAND, son of Jacob and Mary (Baker) Gilliland, was born in Harrison Township, Scioto County, Nov. 7, 1859. He received a good common-school education, and has taken a prominent poisition as a teacher, in which profession he first engaged in 1880 in Madison Township, and for the past two years has taught in Harrison Township. He was elected Clerk of Harrison Township in 1882 and still holds that position, having been re-elected in 1883. He owns a fine farm, stocked with blooded cattle, and may be classed among the well-to-do young men of this township. In politics he affiliates with the Republican party. His father was born April 28, 1827, at Jackson Furnace, Jackson County, and was first married to Lusetta White, who is now deceased. He was again married Aug. 31, 1856, to Mary Baker, who bore him two children -- Jackson H. and our subject. She was first married Jan. 23, 1844, to Joshua Welch, who died Feb. 1, 1855. To this union were given four children -- Elizabeth, Louisa, William and George, all living. Our subject resides with his mother, her husband having died Feb. 27, 1875.

JACKSON GILLILAND, son of Samuel and Sarah Gilliland, was born Dec. 22, 1829, on the farm where he now resides. His father settled on the home farm in Jackson County, Nov. 2, 1815, which he converted from a wilderness to a good farm, and where he spent the rest of his life. His death occurred Jan. 25, 1852, at the age of sixty-four years. Our subject attended the common schools till he was fourteen years old. At the age of twenty-two years he took charge of his father's farm, which he now owns. He has 444 acres of land which is underlaid with several veins of coal and iron ore. In 1851 he became a partner in the Jackson Furnace, which he operated very successfully for three years, since which he has been engaged in farming and stock raising, and is one of the largest stock dealers in the township. He was married Nov. 14, 1865, to Jennie, daughter of Samuel and Jennie Baker, of Jackson, Ohio. They have three children -- Samuel B., Cranston E. and Oscar C.  Mr. Baker, father of Mrs. Gilliland, was an officer in the war of 1812, and during Jackson's administration was a clerk in the auditor's department. He is yet living in the town of Jackson, aged ninety-two years.

Transcribed by Kate Maynard, 2008