BIO: John C. GILLAND, M.D., Greencastle, Franklin County, PA

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Medical Men of Franklin County, 1750-1925 by Ambrose Watts Thrush, M.D.;
Chambersburg, Pa.; Medical Society of Franklin County, Page 229
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JOHN C. GILLAND, M. D.

  J. C. Gilland was born July 27, 1849, near Shady Grove, Franklin County, a son 
of Thomas and Susan (Conrod) Gilland and a grandson of Thomas Gilland, born 1777 
in Londondery, Ireland, who settled in early life in Quincy Township near 
Funkstown.

  J. C. Gilland attended the rural schools of the neighborhood and the select 
schools of Greencastle, Waynesboro and Strasburg.  He taught in the rural school 
for several years before entering Ursinus College where he was a student through 
the Sophomore year.  Dr. Gilland read medicine with Dr. Wm. Grubb in Greencastle 
and was graduated M. D. in 1876 from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
Pa.

  This same year he located in New Franklin where he was in practice for two 
years and then removed to Greencastle where he has been in continuous practice 
ever since.

  Dr. Gillard married in 1883, Martha M. Snyder, daughter of Henry Snyder of 
Guilford Township.  He is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Presbyterian Church 
and of the Medical Society of Franklin County.  He was President of the Society 
in 1910.