James McAnelly Gill (b1880)
| Nickname: | J.M. |
| Born: | August 1880, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Died: | October 29, 1943, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Buried: | Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, Alabama |
| Brother of: | Eugene Roane Gill |
| Son of: | Isaac W. Gill |
Notes:
• McAnelly Hardware Co.
"The McAnelly Hardware Co. has been incorporated, at Huntsville, Ala., and has taken over the business of the late McAnelly Brothers, a Hardware firm that did business successfully for thirty-six years. The deaths of both James H. and John C. McAnelly has led to this change of name, owners and management.
The new company is under the direction of the following officers: President, Eugene R. Gill; vice-president, James M. Gill; secretary and treasurer, E. R. Matthews. The new president has represented the Todd-Donigan Iron Co., of Louisville, Ky., in eastern territory for the past fifteen years, with headquarters in Virginia, and has also represented several of the leading stove manufacturers of the St. Louis district. He will take active charge of this business as soon as he can arrange for his successor on the trip, and expects to have occasional trips through the territory, continuing with some of the lines that he has formerly represented. Mr. Gill enjoys the distinction of being one of the best salesmen on the road, and has built up an immense business in the several lines that he represents, and in returning to Huntsville, his old home, to take charge of the above business, will take up the work and perpetuate the business founded by his uncles, J. H. and J. C. McAnelly, under whom he received his early training in the Hardware business.
The records of the old firm show that during the entire period that they were in business, there was never an invoice that was not discounted, which to some extent is a remarkable record, and this precedent will also be perpetuated. The company will do a jobbing business in mill supplies, putting in a stock and catering particularly to the cotton mill business." - Hardware Dealer's Magazine
• "Huntsville, Ala.: J. H. McAnnelly Bros. have reorganized their Hardware business under the style of The McAnnelly Hardware Co. The members of the new corporation are hustling young business men, all of whom are well and favorably known in Huntsville. Eugene R. Gill is president; James M. Gill is vice-president, and E. R. Matthews is secretary and treasurer. They have begun making extensive improvements and will have a thoroughly modern Hardware store, carrying a complete and well assorted stock." - Hardware Dealer's Magazine
• President, Huntsville City Council, 1922-1924. - Record
• City Council 1920-1922, 1922-1924 (President), 1924-1926. - Record
• Ran for Huntsville Mayor in 1924; lost to F. L. Adams (vote count 753 to 724). - Record
• Charter member of The Huntsville Kiwanis Club "organized on June 25, 1919 and granted a charter July 14, 1919, but due to the inability of the International Officials being present at that time it was officially presented November 20, 1919." - Taylor
• Active in the early Chamber of Commerce, serving on the Board of Directors and in other capacities. - Taylor
• "The first fair of the Madison County Fair Association was held during 1920 at their new property on Church and Wheeler Streets. Fairs would be held there until 1965, when the last fair was shown. The Fair Association was organized January 27, 1920 with D. C. Finney as temporary Chairman and Directors R. C. Bibb, J. S. Yarbrough, J. P. Cooney, J. M. Gill, W. L. Lyle, Ed Mitchell, W. F. Garth, R. E. Camper, John Scott, L. P. Cohen and Evelyn Peyton. Jaycees now sponsor the county fair, along with the county commission." - Record
• James McAnelly Gill & Lucinda Pauline Strong obtained a marriage license November 11, 1913, in Madison County, Alabama. - MCRC, Marriage
• Pauline "Lula" Strong (1885 - 1916), wife of James M. Gill. - Maple Hill
Related Links:
• Ancestry.com - Page owned by Julie Gage and can be viewed only with an Ancestry.com paid subscription. (Originally found at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/16298212/person/1621295192.)
• Hardware Dealer's Magazine - Hardware Dealer's Magazine, Vo. 40, James H. Kennedy, Editor, 1913, pages 385 and 602.
• Huntsville History - List of names for members of Huntsville's City Council, web pages are not numbered. 1920-1922, 1922-1924. (Originally found at http://www.hsvcity.com/kids/past_council_history.pdf.)
• Maple Hill - Maple Hill Cemetery, Phase One, by Diane Robey, Dorothy Scott Johnson, John Rison Jones, Jr., & Frances C. Roberts (Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society), 1995, page 57.
• Maple Hill - Maple Hill Cemetery, Phase One, by Diane Robey, Dorothy Scott Johnson, John Rison Jones, Jr., & Frances C. Roberts (Huntsville-Madison County Historical Society), 1995, page 57. (Originally found at docs/pdf/book2/Maple_Hill_Cemetery_Phase_One.pdf#search=Gill&zoom=100.)
• MCRC, Marriage - Madison County Records Center, Marriage Records Index.
• Record - A Dream Come True: The Story of Madison County and Incidentally of Alabama and the United States, Volume II, by James Record, 1978, pages 175, 345, 362, 438, 442.
• Taylor - Commemorative Album, Celebrating our City's Sesquicentennial of Progress, Huntsville, Alabama, by James E. Taylor, General Chairman, 1955, pages 192, 217.
The Following Pages Link to this Page:
• Eugene Roane Gill
• Isaac W. Gill
• Maple Hill
• Record
• Taylor