Tuscola-Saginaw County MI Archives Biographies.....Gollan, John W. 1861 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JOHN W. GOLLAN. Possessing unusual intelligence and excellent judgment, Mr.
Gollan has the confidence of those about him. Although he has not been a
resident of Vassar many years, his honest dealings with all whom he meets in a
business way and the genial and kindly disposition displayed to all whom social
intercourse brings him in contact with, have given him a place among the
representative young men of the county. He is successful as a merchant and while
advancing his own interests, has aided in elevating the moral and commercial
standing of the community.

  The parents of our subject were Thomas and Jane (Taylor) Gollan, natives
respectively of Scotland and England. The mother came to this country with her
parents while yet a child. Thomas Gollan learned the trade of a cooper in
Scotland and when a young man came to this country with a brother. He was an
honorable, industrious man, highly esteemed by all who knew him, and his
untimely death when our subject was one and one-half years old was sincerely
mourned by the community. John W. Gollan, of this sketch, was born March 14,
1861, in Ransomville, N. Y., and remained with his mother during his childhood
years. She endeavored to give him every possible advantage in the way of
educational facilities, so that the opportunities afforded him were more than
are often extended to orphaned lads. After he had received a good common-school
education in the district school he became a student in the Lockport High
School, which he entered at the age of sixteen. After remaining there two and
one-half years he left to come West to Michigan. Upon arriving in this State Mr.
Gollan clerked for about six years in the general store of McHose & Gage,
afterward engaging as clerk for one year in Saginaw for William Barrie. He was
also engaged in clerking in various places until 1888, when he started in
business for himself in Vassar. He has here worked up a good trade, and his
pleasant and accommodating disposition has won him friends throughout the
neighborhood. On June 23, 1890 he was united in marriage with Miss Birdell A.
Garnum, the daughter of John and Matilda Garnum. Mrs. Gollan was born in
Almont,Mich., in December, 1868, and is a lady of genial disposition and
hospitable ways. One child has been born of the union, Ross Adolfe, whose birth
occurred in Vassar, May 20, 1891. Politically Mr. Gollan is a firm believer in
the principles of Republicanism, but has never been an aspirant for office,
although he invariably casts his ballot for the candidates pledged to support
the party of his faith. Socially he is a member of the Masonic fraternity. The
only member of his father's family besides himself is his sister, Mary J., who
married William Crosby, a farmer of Ransomville, N. Y.


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Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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