Pgs 412-686 - Illinois Ancestors

the eldest daughter, now the wife of C. EX. Fuller, of Galesburg; Ill.,
master tri~iu-dispatcher in the eillploy of the Chicago, Bul*lington ct;
Qnincy R~ilr~i~d Colnl)any, the!. ]laving one son, Fred. C., married to
Nellie Ilill, also of C+alesl)~~rg, they res~cling in Blooluington, Ill. he
being in tlre elnploy of the ~liici~o, Btifington L! Qulncy Railroad
Coinlmny at that ilace. Abbie, secollcl dnagliter of Gicleon B. and
Sam11 A. Gillette, wife of F. J. Eosh, banker at Clear Lalie, Ia.., hare
two children, Mabel and Grant A,, Bf;~bel heing the wife of A. D. Daris,
with Perry C! Go., Cliicago, Ill., the\. llaving one little claagllter, Maud
E. Grant A. is all attorney at law, Cincoln, Neb., a menlber of the firin
of I>alanes C ! ELIS~I, married Mabel A. Ihrnes, of Lincoln, Keb. AIary
J une, tllirtl dangliter of Gitleoi~ 13. alrtl Salsa11 A. Gillette, married
James Ijalen tine, of Toulon, Ill. Alary Jane. now tleceasecl, leaving
two clliltlren, Charles iintl Blanche. It is said of (+ideon C. Gillette
by tlrose to 1~110111 he mas best known, that an eneln! \vas unltno\vn to
him. On the contiaary, lie was blessed mitlr tlie lral'l~y faculty of il1nl;ing
many friends ; the poor always fount1 in lliin ib ~villing. helper. . He
was public spirited anti successful in 11 is business 11 ntlertaliings, ant1
llatl he lived ~\-o~~ld have been, no doubt, iis lle inteutletl, an extensire
lanil ownela. IIe tlietl as he had always liveti, a t~ue Christian.
J. T. .(:cw(ln,e,~ settlecl on the west line of Toulon in 1SG6, porclrasing
i~t this time seventysix acres there. In ISSO he sold tllis falam and purcllnsed
his present eighty acres in Goshen. He ~vas born in Atlains
county, Pa., Marc11 27, 1S33, of ~vhich county his parents, Bnrn11a~rl.t
; L I ~ Mary Gardne~ (~vhose lnaiclen nnllie was l\i[ary Trostle) \\-ere
nat i ires. T. J. Gsrdner le;~,rned tlie nliller's trade fro111 his father, and
ivorkecl with lliln in his 111ill until 1854, v-llen lie came to Fulton
county, Ill. He \~~\.ns engaged in agriculture there nntil 1862, when he
moved to the Pacific coast, and there, in Oregon and Idaho, nT\.;ts enc)*ao.etl
in inining. until 1865, when he mounted an Indian pony and
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made the return journey to Fulton countr in safety. In IS55 Ile married
Miss Pllilura Bliss, to \vlioin four children \\-ere born, three of
whonl are living, namely : Alice, Ecldy and George. His wife and
two cl~ildren are ~nernbers of the IkIetl1ot2ist churcll of Toulon. I'oliticr~lly
Mr. (hrtlnela is a, Eepublican, and 1~11ile voting \\.it1111is pi~rty on
all questio~zs, never fails to recognize \\-hat is just in the principies or
l~latfolal of his opponents.
XA:,ryi, Grtlbtaaith, son of Ji~,mes and Jane jblcCsslan) Gal brai t h,
natives of Donegal coonty, Ireli~ncl, was bonl in IS1 1. His parents
catme to Plliladelpliia in 1829, where they died. Hugh Galbrait11 was
mma~aietl to Miss Anne Wolson, (laughter of Tlloinns and Ann Wolson
(also natives of Donegal), July 3,1533. Of their eleven clliltlren seven
a,lle living, nninely : dames, born in April. 1S36, now at hon~e ; Annie,
no\\. Mrs. John Ogle, of Essex township. l)o1~11 ixl IS43 ; Xntlre~r. exslrerifl'
o!' tlre county ; 1111g11, born in 1846 ; Elizi~ .Jane. born in 1849,
llow Mrs. Salnuel T,o\oll~an ; Rebecca, now Mrs. Moore, of I'rculiar, Mo.,
bolan in 1851 ; Rol)ert, born in February, 1857. Ancllcu- enlisted in
tlre Maiaine Artillery and re-enlistecl in the Illinois T'olnnteers oncl
served nntil the close of the war. Mr. Galbl*,zitl~ owns 260 aciaes of
the finest lands in the county, and is engaged in stock-raising. MI: