Jemison, Mary ('Deh-he-wä-mis') (1743?–1833), American frontierswoman, was born aboard the ship William and Mary, when her parents, Thomas Jemison and his wife Jane (née Erwin), (both of protestant Scotch-Irish heritage) were emigrating to colonial Pennsylvania, departing from…...
Tillie, William (1822–1904), shirt manufacturer, was born in October 1822 in Crookston
Mains, in the parish of Stow, Midlothian, Scotland,
son of John Tillie and his wife Jannet Tillie (née Brown), who were substantial farmers;
he had at least two brothers and a sister. Until Tillie…...