W. H. and Samuel G. Gilliland Biographies


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				W. H. AND SAMUEL G. GILLILAND. 

	W. H. and Samuel G. Gilliland are the owners of valuable landed 
interests in Yankton county, comprising five hundred and seventy acres 
on which at one time was established the camp of Chief Smutty Bear, 
thus making it one of the historic sections of-the state. Their 
interests are carefully conducted, sound business methods being 
displayed in all that they undertake. The brothers are natives of 
Warren county, Illinois, and sons of D. J. and Susan B. (Line) 
Gilliland. The father was a native of Big Stone Valley, Pennsylvania, 
and on leaving that state removed to the west. He was married in 
Illinois and for many years resided in Warren county, where both he and 
his wife were highly esteemed, being members of the Presbyterian church 
there. 

	The sons attended the public schools, W. H. Gilliland pursuing 
his education in that manner to the age of twelve years, after which he 
concentrated his energies upon farm work, assisting his father. In 1880 
he left Illinois and made his way to Yankton county, South Dakota, 
where he went upon the preemption claim of his brother, John Albert 
Gilliland, who died in the year 1908. When W. H. Gilliland came to the 
west he was accompanied by his brother, Samuel G. Gilliland, and they 
have since been associated in business. At the time of the memorable 
flood of 1881, W. H. Gilliland was working on a steamboat and for four 
days stayed upon the bar in the river. His brother, Samuel G., attended 
Yankton College. He was married in Yankton county in June, 1907, to 
Miss Clara Rudel and they now have four children: Sammy, six years of 
age; Willie, aged five; Susan B., who was named for her grandmother 
Gilliland, and David James. W. H. Gilliland lives with his brother, S. 
G. Gilliland, and they occupy a very creditable position among the 
representative farmers and stock raisers of Yankton county. They are 
active, energetic and progressive and alone well defined lines of labor 
have reached a position of success.