John Gillies, a retired contractor and dock builder of Brooklyn, died suddenly yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was in his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Gillies was the builder of most of the big steamship piers on the North River in Manhattan and of piers and a drydock at the Nacy yard in Brooklyn. His home was at 104 Kent Street, Brooklyn.

Source: New York Times, Thursday, January 1, 1920 klyn, died suddenly yesterday in St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. He was in his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Gillies was the builder of most of the big steamship piers on the North River in Manhattan and of piers and a drydock at the Nacy yard in Brooklyn. His home was at 104 Kent Street, Brooklyn.

Source: New York Times, Thursday, January 1, 1920

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