“I am a professional public speaker, not one who bugles around to the boys for the reward of a meal.”
About Strickland Gillilan
21 September 1869–25 April 1954
Strickland Gillilan was born on 21 September 1869 in Jackson County, Ohio, a region whose rural rhythms, small-town sociability, and vigorous political culture supplied much of the material from which he would make a career. He died on 25 April 1954 in Baltimore, Maryland, after a long life spent as a journalist…