Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Jacob Gilliland and Maria Davis




Husband Jacob Gilliland 1

           Born: 8 Nov 1833 - Lower St. Clair Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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         Father: Samuel Gilliland (      -Bef 1889) 1 2
         Mother: Eliza Brauff (Abt 1811-Bet 1889/1915) 2


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   Other Spouse: Rebecca Kennedy (      -      ) 1



Wife Maria Davis 1

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Children

General Notes: Husband - Jacob Gilliland


He was educated in Mifflin township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, learned no special trade, but engaged at different occupations, and 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 was very successful.
He was a member of the M. E. Church, and was a republican. He built one of the first business-houses in Homestead.

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Sources


1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 632.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 987.


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