Born: December 10, 1877
Died: May 27, 1929
Married: Edith Alexander
Children: Vitu K. Gilliland
Samuel Howard Gilliland was a World War I veteran. He was a patient at Trudeau Sanatorium in the 1920s, having possibly contracted tuberculosis in the service. He was both an M.D and a DVM.
Veterinary Medicine, D.M. Campbell, ed., vol. XIX, August, 1924, p. 26
Dr. S. H. Gilliland. Born in central Pennsylvania. 1877. Educated in Bellefonte Academy, Millersville State Normal School and the University of Pennsylvania. Graduated from the School of Veterinary Medicine. University of Pennsylvania, 1901, and from the School of Medicine of the same university in 1904. Instructor in veterinary bacteriology and laboratory diagnosis at the University of Pennsylvania in 1901 and 1902. Director of the laboratory of the Pennsylvania Livestock Sanitary Board from 1898 to 1905. President and Director of the laboratories of Dr. H. M. Alexander & Co., pioneer producers of smallpox vaccine, 1906 to 1916. State Veterinarian and Secretary of the Livestock Sanitary Board of Pennsylvania. 1909 to 1911. Director of the laboratories of the Pennsylvania State Department of Health. 1912 and 1913. President of Gilliland Laboratories since 1916. Entered the army in 1917, serving until February, 1919, with rank of major and was director of the laboratories of the Veterinary Corps located at the University of Pennsylvania. At present Dr. Gilliland is devoting his entire time to the work of the Gilliland Laboratories, Marietta, Pa. They prepare a full line of biological products for human use with a limited line for veterinary use. These laboratories have always been operated along conservative lines and have enjoyed a reputation of producing biological products of the highest quality.
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Marietta, Pa.; University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 1904; member of the American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists; instructor in veterinary bacteriology and laboratory diagnosis, University of Pennsylvania, in 1901 and 1902; director of the laboratories of the Pennsylvania State Department of Health in 1912 and 1913; president of the Gilliland Laboratories; aged 51; died, May 27, at Lancaster. He is buried in State College, Pennsylvania.
