Wayne's notes:
The E. B. Gilleland of this article was a son of Truett Gilleland, himself a son of Irish-born John Berrisford Gilleland and Virginia-born Sarah Johnson (or Johnston). This line can be found in Jackson County, Ohio from the early 1800's. Many of John and Sarah's children moved west; in 1867 Truett married in Youngstown, Ohio to Julia Ann Gilleland and moved to Cowly County, Kansas, where son Edgar Berrisford "E. B." Gilleland was born abt. 1872.

For more information on the family tree of John Berrisford Gilleland, see the thread "John B. Gilleland" under Gilliland Families of the U.S. and Canada on the Gilliland Trails discussion forum.

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Wichita Weekly Eagle
Friday Morning Aug. 6, 1909

WICHITA TO HAVE BIG STEEL GRAIN DOOR FACTORY
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Company Incorporate With Capital of $100,000 Will Be Managed
by Prominent Wichita  Business Men
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E. B. GILLELAND, PATENTEE IS GENERAL MANAGER
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W. R. Tucker,  O. C. Daisy, Rudolph Hatfield, J. H. McGee, 
W. A. Gates and C. M Wilmot, Directors.
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The Standard Steel Grain Door and Equipment Company has been incorporated under the laws of Kansas with a capital of $100,000. It is a Wichita concern, not a man outside of Wichita being connected with the company in any way.
  
The company will manufacture in and distribute from Wichita the Standard steel grain door. The door meets all requirements of both railroad and shipper and is easily operated by one man.

E. B. Gilleland, general manager of the company, is the patentee of the door. He is a son of T. E. Gilleland, formerly a well known stockman of Winfield Ks. 

Mr Gilleland engaged in the railroad service sixteen years ago for the purpose of studying equipment and appliances, and the steel grain door is the result of his years of study and experiments. 

Associated with Mr. Gilleland in the company are half a dozen of Wichita’s foremost business men. J. H. McGee is president, O. C. Daisy, vice president, Rudolph Hatfield,
Attorney, and W. R. Tucker, vice president of the Fourth Nation bank, is secretary and treasurer.

On the board of directors are W. A. Gates and C. M. Wilmont, the latter a retired stockman of Cowley county, who will be actively identified with the company.

The full size-size model of the grain door is in operation on William street near Santa Fe. The construction is simple and practical. The model was made by the Western Iron and Foundry company of this city.

Patentee Gilleland will leave for the east next week to purchase the necessary machinery and steel stock. 

The total weight of this all steel, corrugated grain door with mounting is only 133 pounds, and its operating weight 62 pounds. As previously stated, it is readily handled by one man, and is the only steel door made that can be put up to the carling by one man.
The door and all its equipment can be put up to the carling and out of the way when not in use and all of the equipment is out of the way when in use. No part of the door is subject to damages by any commodity that might be loaded in the car other than grain.

The door will also do away with the enormous expense of portable doors or patent wood doors. The door is installed with only four bolts, and can be applied to any car within fifteen minutes without altering the car. Once applied, it is with the car always. 

W. R. Tucker is enthusiastic over the company’s prospects, declaring that the door is just what is needed: simple, strong, durable, practical, easily operated.

On a recent visit to the large railroad offices in Kansas City and Chicago, Patentee Gilleland met with universal encouragement. It is planned to begin the manufacture of the doors early this fall.