Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 41
Princeton, New Jersey
1941

OBITUARY

WILLIAM FLEMING GILLILAND ‘89

WILLIAM FLEMING GILLILAND was born on February 24, 1866, in Straban Township, near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa.
    After preparing at Media Academy, Media, Pa., he entered Princeton University, in the Class of 1889. While a student at the University, he took an active part in football and wrestling.
    After his marriage, to Ada Patterson of Pittsburgh, he operated a dairy farm until 1910, when he entered the merchandising business in Gettysburg, which occupation he continued until his death, on February 13, 1941.
    Mr. Gilliland was one of the founders, and for many years a director, of the Gettysburg Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. He was also a member of the Gettysburg chapter of the Masons, and Order of Independent Americans, and attended the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church.
    Mrs. Gilliland died in 1937. Surviving, are three children: Mrs. Walker Morris, Punxsutawney, Pa., Anna Gilliland, Gettysburg, Pa., and James P. Gilliland, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.
For the Class of 1889
LEWIS SEYMOUR MUDGE, Secretary
WILLIAM S. JENNEY, President
CLARENCE B. MITCHELL, Vice-President

Note: In the same edition of this weekly was another notice for Fleming Gilliland:

‘89
    The Class will regret to learn of the death at Gettysburg, Pa., on February 13 of a classmate, W. F. Gilliland.
    Information concerning this sad event did not reach the Class in time for suitable representation at the funeral. The Class secretary has, however, expressed the sympathy of the Class to the surviving members of Gilliland’s family and a memorial minute is in course of preparation for insertion in the Alumni Weekly.

                                                                                         -transcriptions by Kate Maynard, 2013