Andrew C. Gilligan
The effect of a laudable ambition backed by enterprise and sound business judgment is clearly illustrated in the life of Andrew C. Gilligan, now president of the Cincinnati & Suburban Delivery Company and prominently connected with other successful business enterprises. He is a native of the Emerald Isle and was born in the County, Sligo in 1855, a son of Patrick and Elizabeth (Carvey) Gilligan. He received his education in the old country but being ambitious to make an honorable name for himself under more favorable circumstances and not perceiving an opportunity for rapid advancement in Ireland, he came to America at twenty-two years of age and located at Cincinnati. Here he found employment with the Eagle Bottling Works, which firm was started in 1874 by M. and A. J. Gilligan. By able management the business was developed to a good paying basis and three years ago was incorporated, the officers now being Andrew C. Gilligan, president, and M. J. Doyle, secretary and treasurer. The company owns the building in which it carries on its work and enjoys a large patronage in Cincinnati and the suburbs. It gives employment to about fifteen persons.
Mr. Gilligan is also president of the Cincinnati & Suburban Delivery Company which has been in existence for more than thirty years and is the leading concern of the kind in the city. It was incorporated June 2, 1880, the officers at that time being: Lucien Broadwell, president; and C. R. Scott, secretary. They started with five wagons and seven horses but the company now makes use of forty-five wagons and eighty-seven horses and gives employment to fifty-six persons. The large increase in business has been mainly due to the able, energetic management of Mr. Gilligan and his associates, the other officers of the company being: A. W. Park, treasurer; and Darius Flinn, secretary. Mr. Gilligan is also president of the Motor Car Supply Company of this city, which was incorporated in December 1910,and has been a pronounced success from the start.
In 1884 he was married to Miss Frances Newman, a daughter of Thomas J. Newman, and to them one child, Edith May, was born. The mother having died, Mr. Gilligan was married again in 1911 to Miss Mary Elizabeth Mospins, of Newport, Kentucky. In religious belief Mr. Gilligan has all his life been identified with the Catholic Church and he holds membership in St. Xavier's of this city. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Men's Club and is prominently identified with benevolent and fraternal organizations, among which are the Knights of Columbus, the United Irish Societies and the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, being also connected with the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. A man of generous and pleasing nature, he has made a host of friends who have always found him true to every obligation and quick in response to every noble and uplifting sentiment. He is a true lover of his adopted city and looks back with pride upon the day when he landed on the soil of America, for under the stars and stripes he has found friends and fortune.
From Cincinnati, The Queen City, Volume III, by Rev. Charles Frederic Goss, S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1912