GILMER, WILL. S.

GILMER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:52

MADISON TOWNSHIP.
P. O. FORT MADISON

GILMER, WILL. S., grain-dealer and loaning money; was born in Lee Co., Washington Tp., March 27, 1849; he was brought up and received his education in this county ; since reaching manhood, he has been engaged in farming and in the grain business ; his father, Dr. Campbell Gilmer, was the first practicing physician here, and one of the earliest settlers; he came here in 1835; died in 1865.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879