AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY

OF THE COUNTIES OF

ROCK AND PIPESTONE

MINNESOTA

BY ARTHUR P. ROSE
MEMBER OF THE MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Author of  the Histories of
NOBLES COUNTY
JACKSON COUNTY, ETC

NORTHERN HISTORY PUBLISHING COMPANY
LUVERNE, MINNESOTA
PUBLISHERS
1911

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    SAMUEL L. GILLILAND (1896) is one of the enterprising and substantial agriculturalists of Troy township. He settled in Pipestone county fifteen years ago and is now the owner of two of the most thoroughly improved quarter sections of land in his home precinct, the northwest quarter of section 34 and the southwest quarter of section 30. He engages extensively in high grade stock raising, especially of cattle and sheep.
    A native of Illinois, Samuel was born in McHenry county October 23, 1850, a son of James and Nancy (Davis) Gilliland, the former an Irishman by birth and the latter a native of New York. After completing the course of the district school, our subject was for two years a student in the Marengo high school; then he turned his attention toward agricultural pursuits, a calling in which he has since continued. He assisted with the management of the home farm until after his twenty-fifth birthday; then for eleven years he rented and farmed land in McHenry and Kane counties, Illinois. He departed from that state in 1896 to establish his residence in Pipestone county. Mr. Gilliland is the president and a director of the Farmers Elevator company of Cazenovia, and he is also a stockholder in similar institutions at Pipestone and Airlie. He has served twelve years as treasurer of school district No. 10 and for nine years has guarded the treasury of the township. In a fraternal way he is affiliated with the M. W. A. and R. N. A. lodges.
    On December 17, 1890, at Harmony, Illinois, Samuel L. Gilliland was joined in wedlock to Mary J. Grimes, who was born in Illinois February 28, 1869, the daughter of Sol. K. and Mary Grimes. To Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland were born these five children:  Millard, born February 9, 1893; Lester, born February 26, 1898; Clifford, born December 2, 1899; Mabel, born September 14, 1907; and Loran, born June 9, 1907, died August 14, 1907.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2009