Frank Gilby Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 716-717

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FRANK GILBY. Persistent industry, strict attention to business and 
honesty are not without their reward. The fine farm and land and stock 
interests of the gentleman whose name beads this personal history are 
the evidences of his efforts. He is one of the rising young men of 
Spink county, and is the owner of four hundred and eighty acres in 
Garfield township, where his home is located on the northwest quarter 
of section 32. 

Our subject is a native of Lincolnshire, England, and was born July 22, 
1867, and was the fifth in family of six children born to William and 
Mary A. (Barwell) Gilby. His father was a merchant tailor and emigrated 
to America and engaged in tailoring in Chicago, where he became cutter 
and manager for R. D. Mabey. Our subject entered the employ of A. C. 
McClurg, having the care of the stock. The family located in Dakota, in 
1883, and settled on land in Garfield township, Spink county, and 
engaged in farming for several years. Our subject returned to Chicago 
in 1889 and for one year was city buyer for his employers. The father 
gave up farming and our subject again went to Dakota and took charge of 
the farm, afterward filing a homestead claim on the land which he now 
owns. He controls about one thousand acres of land and cultivates about 
five hundred acres annually. He has a fine herd of cattle and winters 
about forty head, dealing almost exclusively in short horn stock. His 
farm is well improved, and bears evidence of careful management. Good 
water is obtained at a depth of forty feet, and a windmill attached 
greatly facilitates the labor of farm life. He has a comfortable 
dwelling, 16 x24 feet, with an addition, 14 x 28 feet, and is 
surrounded by more than usual comforts. 

Our subject was married in 1890 to Miss Hattie Miller, daughter of J. 
J. and Electa (Shattuck) Miller, who are residents of Garfield 
township. Mr. and Mrs. Gilby are the parents of three children, named 
as follows: Herbert L., Lee W. and Arthur. Mr. Gilby is a prominent 
citizen in his locality, and has served as assessor, and also as 
treasurer of the school board for six years, and is the present 
incumbent. He has been sent as a delegate to various county 
conventions, and as township clerk and a member of the township board 
he has done faithful work for the advancement of that locality. He is a 
Populist in political views, favors prohibition and equal suffrage, and 
is identified with the first work of the Populist party in Spink 
county, since which time he has been a firm supporter of its movements. 
He has a host of friends in Spink county, who regard him as a citizen 
of honor and integrity.