| JAMES A. GILMORE, a veteran
of the Civil war and an enterprising real estate dealer residing at
Grove City, Mercer county, was born in Lackawannock township, Mercer
county, Pennsylvania, March 3, 1841, a son of Daniel and Jane (Brown)
Gilmore. The father was born in Pennsylvania, of Scotch origin. The
grandfather, John Gilmore, was the first of the family to come to
Mercer county. He settled in what is now Pine township, where he lived
for many years and operated what was known as Gilmore’s Mills, on
Indian Run, the same being one of the pioneer mills of the county. He
saw service as a soldier in the war of 1812. Jane (Brown) Gilmore was a
native of Ireland, a sister of General Brown of the Thirteenth West
Virginia Regiment in the Civil war. Grandfather John Brown was also
numbered among the pioneer band of early settlers in Mercer county. James A. Gilmore of this notice was one of the nine children in his parents’ family, eight of whom are still living. The father was a farmer and attained the age of seventy-seven years, but the wife and mother died when sixty-one years of age. James A. was brought up in Pine township and attended the country schools, also the select schools, thus obtaining a good knowledge of the important things any man should know. He had not finished his studies, however, when the first gun of that never-to-he-forgotten Civil war was fired at Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861. He then laid aside his school books and enlisted in Company H, Seventy-eighth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, September 17, 1861. He enlisted as a private soldier “for three years or during the war,” as the clause of the enlistment always read. He was never absent from his regiment for any cause whatever and participated in all of the engagements of his command and was discharged October 12, 1864, as first sergeant. When the old veterans of that war organized the Grand Army of the Republic he very naturally found place within their ranks. He also belongs to the Loyal Legion. After coming back from the war, he wisely took a commercial course at college, and kept a set of books for an oil company and also taught school several terms. He purchased a farm near Grove City and has generally devoted his time and attention since agriculture. He has also dealt quite extensively in realty. Politically, he is a stanch Republican and was by this political party elected clerk of the courts in 1866, taking his seat in 1867, serving three years. He is a Presbyterian in his church faith. Mr. Gilmore was united in marriage in 1867 to Mary E. Neyman, by whom four children were born. Source: (Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, 1909, Vol. I, pages 515-516 ) James A. Gilmore died 2 March 1917 and is buried in Woodland Cemetery in Grove City, PA |
 James A. Gilmore Family |