Dr. John Gilligan
John Gilligan

1856 - 1949
Martha Baker Gilligan
Martha Baker
1873 - 1962

Graduated 26 Oct 1878 Queen's Medical College, Tuam, Galway (parents wanted him to be a priest). Immigrated to New York in 1878. MD at American Medical College of St. Louis, Missouri (1882). Doctor in Wood River, Nebraska, then hired as Union Pacific RR doctor at Green River, Wyoming in 1885. License to practice obstetrics in Wyoming (1899). Dr. John was a successful obstetrician, rancher, and mayor of Green River (1902). He practiced medicine until he was 85. He married Martha Baker in 1891 and had four children: William, John, and Lawrence died as children. George married Ada Kronner and had a daughter, Catherine Patricia (Patsy).

Dr. John Obstetrics Diploma Salt Lake Tribune, 1945

Western People, 1946

Tribune, 1946

 

George Gilligan
George Gilligan
Ada Kronner Gilligan
Ada Kronner
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