Joseph Gill

GILL, ULM, HULBLE, CAMPBELL, TETRICK

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Date: 3/5/2007 at 21:25:17

Biographies from the 1914 "Past and Present of O'Brien and Osceola Counties of Iowa"

JOSEPH GILL.

It is a matter of great satisfaction to those citizens who are looking to the day when better government will be in vogue to find that public opinion is demanding and choosing better public officials. In times gone by Osceola County, Iowa, has had men in public offices who were not altogether efficient and faithful in their administration of their duties, but the county officials who are now in charge of the affairs of the county are a group of men who are of exceptionally high merit. Many of them are represented by biographical sketches in this volume, and without exception they are performing their duties faithfully and well and to the entire satisfaction of the citizens of the county. No more popular sheriff ever haled a prisoner into the courts of this county than Joseph Gill, who was elected in the fall of 1912.

Joseph Gill was born July 22, 1859, in Illinois, and is the son of Samuel and Nancy (Ulm) Gill. Samuel Gill was born in Pennsylvania, and when a small boy went to Ohio with his parents where he was reared to maturity. He married in that state and moved to Illinois in the spring of 1859, where he lived the remainder of his days. Samuel Gill and wife were the parents of eleven children, six sons and five daughters: Mrs. Lydia Hulble, who lives in Clay City, Illinois; Mrs. Mary Campbell, also a resident of Illinois; Rosa, whose husband is a banker at Puyallup, Washington; Mrs. Sally Tetrick, of Illinois; Minnie, who died in 1906; John E., of Clay City, Illinois; Jacob, who is a resident of Beaver City, Nebraska; George and Samuel, who are farmers near Clay City, Illinois; Morris, deceased in 1870, and Joseph, whose history is here briefly set forth.

Joseph Gill was educated in the district schools of his home county in Illinois and later attended the schools of Clay City in that state. He spent his boyhood days on the home farm and at the age of sixteen he left school and began to work. When he was twenty-one years of age he came to Black Hawk County, Iowa, and worked for two years at farm labor. In the fall of 1882 he came to Sibley, Osceola County, where he purchased a livery barn, and has lived in this city since that time. Since acquiring interest in the livery business in Sibley he has erected a new and commodious livery stable and has been doing a prosperous business ever since starting in this line. Upon his election to the office of county sheriff, in the fall of 1912, he sold his stock and barn in order to devote all of his time to the arduous duties of the sheriff's office. He is a man of great force of character

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