- ANDREW GILLIES, farmer, Sec. 36 [Town of Rutland, Dane Co.,
WI]; P.O. Cooksville; was
- born in Fifeshire, Scotland, about 1827; he early learned
the weaver's trade with his father and brothers, and followed
that and the business of a herdsman there till 1845; with is
brothers, in May 1845, he sailed for America, landing in New
York City the last day of that month; he came then to the town
of Porter, Rock Co., and in 1847, settled on Sec. 36, town of
Rutland, Dane Co.; he now has a farm of 132 acres on Secs. 25
and 36. He was married in Auchtermuchty, Fifeshire, Scotland,
in 1843, to Hannah, daughter of Joseph McCLAREN, a native of
that shire.
-
- Taken from "The History of Dane County, Wisconsin"
(c)1880 Western Historical Company, Chicago, p. 1200.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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