GILMOUR, ARTHUR J.

GILMOUR, MILLER

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Date: 5/19/2005 at 12:46:10

Biography reproduced from page 425 of the History of Kossuth and Humboldt Counties, Iowa published in 1884:

Arthur J. Gilmour was born Jan. 10, 1819, in Scotland. When three years of age he came with his parents to America, who settled on a farm in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. He was married March 16, 1845, to Mary C. Miller, also a native of Scotland, born in 1819. They have seven children—Catharine, Jennet, Arthur, Isabell, Jane, Mary and Sarah E. In 1864 he came to Kossuth county, and took a homestead on the southeast quarter of section 17, township 96, range 29, and has about 100 acres under cultivation. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a republican.