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Gilmore, James Roberts, merchant, journalist, author,

was born

Sept. 10,

1823, in

Boston, Jtass. In earlier life he was a shipping merchant in New York City; but during and since the civil war a journalist and miscellaneous writer. He is the author of Among the Pines ily Southern Friends Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among the Guerrillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border: Patriot Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder; The Advance Guard of Western Civilization and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War.



Gilmore, thor,

George

William,

educator, au1857, in London, Li 1876 he graduated from Freehold institute of New

was born May

England.

12,

Jersey graduated from Princeton college w i t h the degrees of A.D. and A.M.; and in 1886 graduated with t h e degree of B.D. from the Union theological seminary. I n 1SS6-S9 he was professor in the Royal col;

lege

and

at Seoul, Korea; in

1893-99 was

in-

structor and professor in Bangor theological seminary. In 18991906 he was professor of old testament language and literature at ileadville theological school. He is bibliographer and editor of the SchalT-Herzog Cyclopaedia of Religious ICnowledge. He is the author of Korea from Its Capital; The Johannean Problem; and Hurst's Literature of Theology.

Gilmore, John, congressman, was born in Butler, Pa. In 1829-33 he was a representative from Pennsylvania to the twentyfirst and twenty-second congresses. He died May 18, 1845, in Butler, Pa. '

Gilmore, John Curtis, soldier, wa>s born April 18, 1837, in Canada. He served as captain and major in the sixteenth regiment New York volunteer infantry; and in 1863 was in command at Fort Wagner. He received the medal of honor for distinguished conduct in the battle of Salem Heights for seizing the color.^ of his regiment and gallantly rallying his men under a very severe fire of the enemy while serving as major. In 1866 he entered the regular army; and became a lieutenant-colonel in 1865 in volunteers, and in 1896 in the adjutant general department. In 1900 he became colonel and in 1899 was brigadiergeneral of volunteers.

Gilmore, John Curtis, soldier, was born in In 1861 he was captain in the sixteenth regiment New York infantry; and in 1898 he attained the rank of brigadiergeneral of volunteers. Gilmore, Joseph Albree, railroad builder, state senator, governor, was born June 10,

Canada.

1811, in Weston, Vt. He was superintendent of the Manchester and Lawrence railroad in 1853-56; and also of the Concord and other connecting lines until 1866. He was a member of the New Hampshire state senate in 1858-59; and president of that body in 1859. He was the twenty-seventh governor of New Hampshire in 1863-65. He died April 17, 1867, in Concord, N.H.

Gilmore, Joseph Henry, educator, clergyman, author, was born April 29, 1834, in

Boston, Mass. Since 1867 llS has''been professor of the English language and literature at the university of Rochester, N.Y. In 1862-64 he was pastor of the baptist church of Fishei-ville, N.H. and subsequently was private secretary to his father, Joseph Albree Gilmore, governor of New Hampshire. He is the author of Art of Expression; Outlines of Rhetoric; Wedlock; Primary Speaker; Academic Speaker; and Familiar Chats about Books and Reading.

Gilmore, Patrick Sarsfield, musician, bandmaster, composer, was born Dee. 25, 1829, His first great feat as leader in Ireland. of a jubilee was in 1864, after the restoration of Xew Orleans to the union, when he collected ten thousand children and five hundred instruments to inaugurate the 5rst union .governor of Louisiana. He died Sept. 24, 1S92, in St. Louis, Mo. 2,

Gilmore, Thomas, lawyer, was born Oct. In 1847 he began the 1819, in Ireland.

study of law; and later was elected clerk of the fourth district court of New Orleans. He died in 1890 in New Orleans, La.

Gilmour, Richard, clergyman, bishop, was born Sept. 21, 1824, in Scotland. He was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's church of Cincinnati in 1857; and was next made professor in the seminary of Mount St. Mary's of the West.' In 1872 he was consecrated bishop by Archbishop Purcell, in the cathedral of Cincinnati. He died April 13, 1891, in St. Augustine, Fla. Gilpin, Edward Woodward, lawyer, jurist, was born July 15, 1805, in Wilmington, DeL He was attorney-general of Delaware in 1840-50; and in 1857-76 was chief justice of

the state. Dover, Del.

He

died

April

29,

1876,

in

Gilpin, Henry Dilwood, jurist, author, cabinet officer, was born April 14, 1801, in England. In 1840-41 he was attorney-general of the United States. He edited the Atlantic Souvenir, the first American literary annual and published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; and Opinions of the Attorneys-General. He also edited the Papers of President Madison in three volumes. He died -Jan. 29, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Gilpin, Joshua, author, poet, was He 8, 1765, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Nov.

bom was

author of Verses at the Fountain of Vaucluse Farm of Virgil, and Other Poems the