Alexander A. and William E. Gillmore Biography


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	including biographical sketches of prominent old settlers and 
	representative citizens of South Dakota..." Published by G. A. Ogle & 
	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 724-725

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ALEXANDER A. AND WILLIAM E. GILLMORE, prominent representatives of the 
agricultural interests of Hand county, South Dakota, have successfully 
engaged in general farming and stock raising on section 12, Florence 
township, since 1883. Both are natives of Essex county, New York, born 
in 1852 and 1858, respectively, and when young were taken to Iowa by 
their parents, Alexander and Eliza Gillmore, who settled in Lynn 
county; where the father died. The mother still resides there. They 
were farming people and were held in high regard by all who knew them. 

On the home farm our subjects grew to manhood, early becoming familiar 
with all the duties which fall to the lot of the agriculturists. On 
first leaving the parental roof Alexander went to Colorado, but in 1883 
both came to Hand county, South Dakota, and took pre-emptions in 
Florence township, to the cultivation and improvement of which they 
have since devoted their energies with marked success. They now own and 
operate four hundred and fifty acres of valuable land and are quite 
extensively engaged in raising and shipping stock. In their political 
views, the brothers are both Democrats, and as public-spirited and 
enterprising citizens, they give their support to all measures which 
they believe calculated to promote the public welfare. Both have served 
as members of the township board of supervisors, and Alexander has also 
been school treasurer for the past six years. He was married in 
November, 1898, to Mrs. Clara Barker, of Hand county. Mrs. Gillmore has 
one daughter by her former marriage, viz.: Geneva Verne Barker, who was 
born March 27, 1887. She lives with her mother and attends school in 
the neighborhood of her home. Mrs. Gillmore's parents were Stephen T. 
and Margaretta B. (Courtright) Hicks, both natives of Pennsylvania, but 
were residents of Illinois for thirteen years and latterly of South 
Dakota. The father was an early pioneer of Wheaton township and took 
considerable interest in church matters; he died September 12, 1898.