City: Memphis
GILLILAND, Fletcher M., business man; born Mount Pleasant, Miss., July 5, 1861; educated in DeSoto Co., Miss., and Collierville Tenn.; in early life was clerk in drug store at Collierville, where he remained three years; he then went into the general store of W. H. Irby at the same place, and at the end of two years bought half interest in the business; in 1891 the firm came to Memphis and went into queensware, glass and woodenware business, and Jan. 1, 1904, it became incorporated as the Irby & Gilliland Co.; member of Masons and Central Methodist Episcopal church.
