San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/17/2010
DANIEL GILLIES
Among the early settlers of Clements and an early California miner, dating back to 1854, was the late Daniel Gillies, who was born in County Tyrone, Ireland, and came to America with his mother in 1830, when he was five years of age, in a sailing vessel around Cape Horn. He was engaged in mining near Coloma, Eldorado County. He was married in San Francisco in June, 1859, to Miss Elizabeth McKinny, a native of Philadelphia, Pa., who came to California that year with her brother, via Panama.
Mr. Gillies had charge of the flume for conducting the water to the hydraulic mines. In 1861 he moved to Lancha Plana, Amador County, where he superintended the water supply for mining. In 1862 he located in San Joaquin County and purchased the old Poland House ranch, which consisted of a quarter-section of farm land about one mile east of what is now Clements. The old Poland House was a roadside hotel, conducted to accommodate travelers journeying to and from the mines. The first postoffice was also there in early days and was called Poland House postoffice. Daniel Gillies gave up the hotel business, but farmed the land, mostly as a grain farmer, for nearly forty years, until his death in 1900. His wife had died previously. They had six children, three of whom are living: Cecilia for the last thirty-five years has been in the employ of the Government as deputy postmaster and now as postmaster at Clements, and also conducts a branch of the San Joaquin County Free Library; Charles B. Gillies lives at Folsom, and Sallie E. makes her home at Clements.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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