James
Collin
Gilruth
Born in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States
Ancestors 
Son of James H. Gilruth
and Sarah Adeline (Collin) Gilruth
Brother of
Grace (Gilruth) Rigby, Mary (Gilruth) McEwen, Blanche (Gilruth) Carter, Genevieve Gilruth, Henry Augustus Gilruth and Miriam (Gilruth) Michell
Husband of
Elsie (Klotz) Gilruth
— married
about 1905 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Mary (Gilruth) Hoffmann
Died
at age 96
in Evanston, Cook, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Oct 2016
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Biography
James was born on September 12, 1876. He is the son of James Gilruth and Sarah Collin. [1]
He came to Chicago in 1893 for the Colombian Exposition fair and got a job with the The Chicago Daily Record newspaper through his sister, Grace (later Grace Gilruth Rigby), who was then the Financial Editor (= society editor).
James became the Sports Editor and traveled with the Chicago White Sox through the early 1920s, when he became City Editor. By then the paper had become The Chicago Daily News.
In 1905 he married Elsie Klotz, who was the secretary to Col. Rigby (who married Grace Gilruth).
He left journalism in 1929 (it has become what we now call "infotainment" in his opinion) and became the CEO of the Fort Dearborn Bank, which collapsed in 1929 due to a robbery.
He was then President of the Highway Users Association until his death at 96 in 1973.
Sources
- ↑ <Nancy L. Hoffmann>
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~0.78%
Katharine (Mounger) Jones
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~0.78%
Christopher Goodrich :
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~0.78%
Vernie Barnett :
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- "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N744-Q2N : 10 March 2018), James C. Gilruth and Elsie Klotz, 03 Jul 1902.
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