- JAMES GILLIES, farmer, Sec. 36 [Town of Rutland, Dane Co.,
WI]; P.O. Cookville; was born
- in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1815; he is the son of James GILLIES,
a waver by vocation, and with whom, at the age of 13 years, he
began the same trade, and continued that business there fifteen
years; in May 1845, he sailed from Liverpool for America, and
landed in New York City on the last day of that month, and came
thence to the town of Porter, Rock Co., Wis.; a few months later,
he bought 80 acres on Secs. 35 and 36, town of Rutland, Dane
Co, to which he then removed, and upon which he has since resided;
he now owns a farm of 231 acres on Secs. 25, 35 and 36, of this
town. He was married in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1841, to Elspit,
daughter of William and Betsey (PIGGE) HUME, a native of that
shire; they have two children - James H. (who married Isabel
NEWMAN and resides on this farm; they have two children - Ines
M. and William) and Jennett (now the wife of Nathan T. SLOSSON,
who lives in this town). The family is connected with the Congregational
Church.
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- Taken from "The History of Dane County, Wisconsin"
(c)1880 Western Historical Company, Chicago, p. 1200.
-
- Courtesy of Carol
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