John William Gillis ³⁵⁷⁵

  Events

• He immigrated about 1867 to the United States.

• He worked as a carpenter.

• He appeared on the census in 1880 in Katahdin Iron Works, Piscataquis County, Maine. He was head of household

• He appeared on the census in 1910 at 68 Main Street in Stoneham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He lived in the household of his widowed son, Herbert E. Gillis and is recorded as being in a second marriage of 25 years, though his wife is not present in the household.

John married Martha J. Johnson, daughter of Levi Johnson and Abigail Lindsey, 24 September 1870 in Piscataquis County, Maine.³⁵⁷⁵ (Martha J. Johnson was born 15 February 1853 in Milo, Piscataquis County, Maine,³⁵⁷⁶ died 30 November 1880 ³⁵⁷⁶ and was buried after 30 November 1880 in Milo, Piscataquis County, Maine at Evergreen Cemetery ³⁵⁷⁶.)