Strickland Gillilan

Strickland W. Gillilan (1869–1954) was an American journalist, author, poet, humorist and speaker.

Gillilan was an Ohio-born descendant of a Nathan Gilliland line which can be traced from Augusta County, Virginia back to Ireland and Scotland.

Gillilan's writings, which ranged from the satirical to the sublime, made him one of the more popular authors and speakers of his time.

His career followed a path from rural Ohio across the country to Los Angeles and finally back to Warrenton, Virginia, from where he contributed to the Washington Post.

In addition to his many poems, Strickland Gillilan also penned short stories, wrote several songs (the most famous of which, the wickedly sharp The Poison Squad, is reputed to have led to the passage of the Food and Drug Act of 1906) as well as a number of novels that are still available on today's market.