GEORGE JILLICH
George Jillich, one of the substantial citizens of Atlantic township, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on the 22d of October, 1844, and is the son of John V. and Anna Jillich. When about five years of age, George moved with his parents to Huron county, Ohio, where his father farmed. In 1860, George went to Chicago, and staying about one year he removed to Lewis, Cass county, Iowa, and there lived one winter. He then lived on his farm in Atlantic township, which he purchased in 1866, and now owns one hundred and fifty-four acres of good land, about half improved. He was married in Ohio, in 1865, to Mary Jane Bennett, a native of Huron county, Ohio. They have two children living--George and Frank. Lillie died in January, 1882, aged eight years. Mr. Jillich enlisted in Company C, One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Ohio National Guards, and was taken into the hundred day service. In September, 1863, he was discharged, and in the spring of 1864, he re-enlisted in the One Hundred and Ninety-seventh Ohio, and served in that regiment until the close of the war, in 1865.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 847-848.
