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 OILMAN

OILMAN

grandson of Councillor John Gilman, born Jan. 10, l'2-l, who with his parents Edward and Jlary Uilman, left Gravesend, England, in the ship l>iU- yi'Ht of Ipswich, arrived in Boston, Mass., Aug. 10, 1638, and was married June 20, 1637, to Eliza- beth, daughter of James and Catherine (Sliap- leigh) Treworgye. Benjamin Ives was prepared for college in his native city and entered Wil- liams with the class of 1872, but left before grad- uating, on account of iUness, and .spent two years in travel abroad and in Florida. He engaged in the banking business with, his father and brothers, 1873-79, and in the latter year res'umed bis work as a student. He received his B. A de- gree from Williams in 1880, and became a fellow of Johns Hopkins university in 1881. He also studied at Harvard, at the University of Berlin, in Paris and in Italy. In 1890-91, he lectured on the psj'chology of the art of music at Colorado, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard and Columbia uni- versities. In 1892 he was appointed instructor in psychology at Clark university, Worcester, Mass., and in 1893 became cui-ator of the IMuseum of fine arts, Boston, Mass. He was married Sept. 14. 1893. to Cornelia Moore, daughter of James BI. Dunbar, of New York city. He is the author of numerous valuable contributions to scientific periodicals.

OILMAN, Caroline (Howard), author, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 8. 1794; daughter of Samuel and Anne (Lillie) Howard; granddaugh- ter of Ebenezer and Martha (Ooffe) Howard, and a descendant of Edward and 'Sla.vy (Clark) Gil- man. When sixteen years old her poem " Jeph- tha's Rash Vow " was published in tlie North Ami'ricfin lie- view, and this was soon followed by " Jairus" Daughter."' In 1819 she was mar- ried to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Gilman and accompanied him to Charleston, S.C, re- siding in that city till 1870, when she re- moved to Cambridge, Mass. In 1830 she established The liose. Bud, subsequently called The Southern Base, a magazine for children. This was discontinued in 1839 because of the ill health of Mrs. Gilman. Her contributions to this periodical were collected in several volumes among which are: Becolleefioiis of a Xen: Einilfnid Hnu/sekeeper (183") i: Recolleclionx of a Southern Matron (1836); Poetry of TrmeUinei in the Vniteil States (1838); Ladies' Annnal Berjister (1838-39);

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Btith Baymond (1840) ; OrarJesfrom the Poets (1845) ; Sihyl, or yew Oracles from the Poets (1849) ; Verses of a Life-time (1849); Oracles for Youth (1852); 3Irs. (iilman's Gift-Book (1859); Poems and Stoiies of a Mother and Daxujhter. in collaboration with her daughter, Mrs. Caroline Howard (Gilman) Jervey (1872) ;and Letters of Eliza Wilkinson dnring the invasion of Charleston. She died in Washing- ton, D.C., Sept. 15, 1888.

OILMAN, Caroline Howard, See Jervey, Caroline Howard (iilman.

OILMAN, Chandler Robbins, physician, was born in Marietta. Ohio, Sept. 6, 1802; son of Ben- jamin Ives and Hannah (Robbins) Oilman. He attended Phillips Andover academy and Harvard college, was graduated from the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1824, and subsequently practised in New York city, where he was married to Serena, daughter of Martin Hoffman, Sr., who with two children died in 1842. In 1840 he was appointed professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the College of physicians and surgeons. In 1844 he was married to Hannah Hawkhurst, daughter of Capt. David Marsliall of New York. In 1851 he assumed the chair of medical jurispru- dence, left vacant by the death of Prof. John B. Beck. In 1860, when that college became the medical department of Columbia college, he retained his professorship until May, 1864, when he gave up his professional duties and settled in Middletown, Conn. He contributed numerous articles to medical journals, edited Beck's Medical .Tiirisprndenre (1860), and is the author of Legends of a Log-Cabin, and Life on the Lakes (1835); Sketch of the Life and Character of Dr. J. B. Beck (1831) ; The Belations of the Medical to the I^eyal Profession (1856) ; Tracts on Generation ; and The Case of Charles B. Huntington. He died in Miildletown, Conn., Sept. 26, 1865.

OILMAN, Daniel Coit, educator, was born in Norwich, Conn., Jul)- 6, 1831 ; son of William Charles and Eliza (Coit) Gilman; grandson of Benjamin Clark and Mary (Thing) Gilman; great-gi'andson of Maj. John Gilman; great- grandson of Col. John Gilman ; and great^ grand- son of Councillor John Gilman, one of the original settlers of Exeter, N.H., who emigrated to America from Norfolk. England, in 1638. Through his mother he descended from the Coits, Bills, Huntiugtons, Latbrops and other Connect- icut families. He was fitted for college in the city of New York, was gi'aduated at Yale in 1852, continued his .studies as a resident graduate in New Haven and Cambridge, spent two years in Europe, and after a brief service as an attache to the American legation in St Petersburg, followed the lectures of Trenilelenburg and Carl Ritter in the University of Berlin, and subsequently acted