Gillis, Thomas W. (1806-1886)

Name:

Gillis, Thomas W. (1806-1886)

Title:

Agent, Nashua Manufacturing Company. 1835-1853
Member, Congregational Church, Nashua
Director, Nashua and Groton Railroad Corporation, 1845
Director, Worcester and Nashua Railroad Corporation, 1847
President, Souhegan Manufacturing Company, 1847
Incorporator, Nashua Aqueduct Company, 1851
Incorporator, Worcester and Nashua Telegraph Company, 1855
President, Nashua Gaslight Company
Mayor, City of Nashua, 1857

Other Names:

Gillis, Thomas Worcester

Born:

04/16/1806

Birthplace:

Deering, NH

Died:

11/20/1886

Death Location:

Milford, NH

Residence:

Deering, NH
Nashua, NH 1828-1859
Wheeling, WV 1859, 1860
Circleville, OH 1870-1871
Milford, NH 1871-1886

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Textile Manufacturer

Father:

Gillis, John (1779-1844)

Mother:

Aiken, Hannah (1782-1859)

Relations:

Grandparents: Betsey Woodbury (1757-1835) and William Aiken (1742-1799); Margaret and Thomas Gillis

Spouse:

1) Rhoda Fuller, 1830
2) Elizabeth C. French, 1835

Children:

John Fuller, born 1831; died 1861
Rhoda E., born 1838; died 1892; m. John Wallace Hutchinson
Mary Moore, born 1842; m. L. F. Warner
Sarah Kittredge, born 1847; m. Carl E. Knight

Notes:

George A. Ramsdell, The History of Milford. Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1901, 250.

Edward E. Parker, Editor. History of the City of Nashua, N. H., from the Earliest Settlement of Old Dunstable to the Year 1895... Nashua, New Hampshire: Telegraph Publishing Company, 1897, 545-546.

Vital Records, New Hampshire State Archives

West Street Cemetery, Milford, NH