MEN OF THE TIME

SKETCHES OF LIVING NOTABLES

A BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CONTEMPORANEOUS
SOUTH CAROLINA LEADERS.

BY
J. C. GARLINGTON
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SPARTANBURG, S. C.
GARLINGTON PUBLISHING CO.
1902.

GILLILAND, ROBERT JAMES. -- Son of James Gilliland of Laurens County, who practiced medicine in that county forty years. Ancestors were of Scotch-Irish descent. The subject of this sketch was born at Pickensville, South Carolina, July 30, 1860. He attended Newberry College, until fourteen years of age; then was in the drug business, at Easley, three years. Entered Adger College at Walhalla, South Carolina, in 1878; left there in his junior year, and commenced the study of medicine at Easley. Graduated from the medical department of the University of Maryland, in 1884. He enjoys probably the most lucrative practice of any physician in Pickens County.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010