Samuel Gillespie, 1843-1926

GILLESPIE

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/6/2010 at 16:12:55

Samuel Gillespie was born near Lafayette, Indiana, Jan. 17, 1843. He continued to live in that part of the country until 1869, when he went to the pacific coast and spent there two years in teaching. He came to Clay county, Iowa, in the spring of 1871, locating in Peterson and assisting in the publication of the Clay County News, the first permanent paper published in the county. The fall of 1871 he moved to Spencer, with the newspaper with which he was connected, and his since continued to reside there, devoting most of the intervening years to work on the News.

Source: History of Clay County Iowa – Steele – 1909, page 679.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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