- GEORGE GILLIES, farmer, Sec. 25 [Town of Rutland, Dane Co.,
WI]; P.O. Cooksville; a
- native of Scotland; was born in Fifeshire, Dec. 31, 1823,;
he is the son of James and Jennett GILLIES, also natives of Fifeshire,
and both of whom died there; when George was about 12 years old,
he began the weaver's trade with his father and followed that
business there till 1845; he sailed in May of that year from
Liverpool for America, and landed in New York City the last day
of the same month; he then came to the town of Porter, Rock Co.,
and two years later, to the town of Rutland, Dane Co., locating
at that time on Sec. 25, where he now has 120 acres. He was
married at Janesville, Wis., in August, 1850, to Jennett McCARRA,
a native of Fifeshire, who came to Wisconsin in 1850; their children
are Agnes W. (now the wife of Charles WARRINGTON, who lives in
Mitchell Co., Iowa), James (at home), Jennett (now Mrs. Henry
DOUGLASS, and lives in Porter, Rock Co., Wis.), George W., Jonna
M., Robert S., Maggie E., John E. and Hattie E. (who are at home).
The family is connected with the Congregational Church.
-
- Taken from "The History of Dane County, Wisconsin"
(c)1880 Western Historical Company, Chicago, p. 1200.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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