My Genealogy Hound

JACOB GILLILAND, mine boss, post office Homestead, was born Nov. 8, 1833, in Lower St. Clair township. His grandfather, David Gilliland, a native of Ireland, of Scotch descent, came to America after the Revolution, and settled in Ohio. He had a family of eight children, of whom Samuel, at the age of twenty years, came to Allegheny county, where he farmed. He died in Wyandot county, Ohio. His widow, Eliza (Brauff) Gilliland, is still living in this county, aged seventy-eight years. Her children are Jacob, John, Alfred, Samuel, Mrs. Rebecca Horn, Mrs. Margaret Snee and Mrs. Mary J. Craig. Jacob was educated in Mifflin township, learned no special trade, but engaged at different occupations, and has worked about coal mines thirty-five years, twenty-one years of that time as mine boss. He has distinguished himself as a practical and scientific man, and has been very successful. Mr. Gilliland has been twice married; his first wife, nee Rebecca Kennedy, died, leaving seven children: James, Almarinda, Oliver, Ida M., Josephine, John and Alice. His second wife was Maria Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Gilliland are members of the M. E. Church; he is a republican. He built one of the first business-houses in Homestead.