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 GILMOR

GILMORE

QILMOR, Harry, soldier, was boin at " Gleu Ellen," Baltimore county, Mii., Jan. 17, 1837; son of Robert and Ellen Maria (Ward) Gilmor; and grandson of William and Marian (Smith) Gilmor. His first ancestor in America, Robert Gilmor, came to Maryland from Scotland in 1766 and in 1793 founded the commercial house of Robert Gilmor & Sons, Baltimore. He was educated at a private school in Baltimore and engaged in farming on his father's estate, "Glen Ellen," Md. In 1861 he entered the Confederate service under General Asliby. In 1N63 he received per- mission from the Confederate authorities to organize a cavalry regiment to be composed of Maryland men, and he was elected colonel of the regiment. He was a daring cavalry skirmisher and a valued scout. He was shot four times and taken prisoner twice. He was exchanged once and spent the closing months of the civil war a prisoner in Fort Warren, Boston harbor. His regiment made a raid into Maryland in 1864 and reached Havre de Grace at the mouth of the Susquehanna river. During this raid he burned the railroad bridge over Gunpowder river and captured a Federal troop-train on which was General Franklin. At the close of the war he resumed farming in Baltimore county and also engaged in raising cotton in Mississippi. He was married on Nov. 15, 1866, to Mentoria, daughter of Col. Jasper and Eliza (Nickson) Strong, and their son, Harry Gilmor, became a civil engineer in Baltimoi-e. Colonel Gilmor wrote an account of his war experiences under the title Four Years in the Saddle (New York, 186.5; London, 1866). He died in Baltimore, Md., March 4, 1883.

QILMORE, George William, educator, was born in London, England, May 13, 1857; son of George William and Mary (Mansfield) Gilmore; and grandson of George William and Alice (De Vei'e) Gilmore and of David and Bertha (Quincy) Mansfield. He prepared for college at the Free- hold (N.J.) institute, and was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1883, receiving his A.M. degree in 1889. He was a student at Union theological seminary. New York, 1883-86, and was ordained by the presbytery of Brooklyn, N.Y., April 38, 1886. In 1886 he was appointed by the American board of commissioners of education to carry out the request of the King of Korea for the appointment of learned professors and teachers to found the Royal college at Seoul, Korea, and served there, 1S86-88. He travelled in Japan, 1888-89, and retin-ned to the United States in 1889, where he engaged in literarj' work in New York city. 1889-93: was instructor in the English Bible in Bangor theological seminary, 1893-95, and professor of Biblical history and lecturer on comparative religion from 1895. He was elected a member of the Society of Biblical

literature and exegesis in 1890. He published: Korea from its Capital (1892); The Johaiiueail Pruhlem (1895); and compiled and edited with Bishoj) Hurst IJlrratiin «f Thcoloi/ij (1896).

QILMORE, James Roberts, author, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. ID, 1832; son of Turner Fales and Mary A. (Roberts) Gilmore; grandson of William Gilmore; and a descendant of John Brown, the Christian Carrier, who was murdered by Claverhouse, as is related by Sir Walter Scott. He was prepared for college, but decided to engage in commercial pvirsuits from which he retired with a competence in 1857 and devoted himself to literature, writing under the pen name of "Edmund Kirke." He helped to found the Continental Monthly in 1862, which was short lived. In July, 1864, he visited the President of the Con- federate States at Richmond, Va., having been given a pass by President Lincoln to go beyond the Federal lines. The visit was unofficial and failed of a peaceful solution of the differences between the two sections. After peace was restored he again entered into business, retiring in 1888 to devote himself to biographical and other writing. He delivered a course of lectures on "The Early Southwest," before the Lowell institute, Boston, Mass., in 1889, and before the Peabody institute, Baltimore, Md., in 1890. He is the author of Among the Pines (New York, 1863); Ml/ .Southern Friends {\S6^) ; Dovrn in Ten- nessee (1863); Adrift in Dirie (1868); Among the Guerrillas (1863); On the Border (1864); Patriot Boys (1864); Gospel History (with Dr. Lyman Abbott, 1880); Life of Garfield (1880); The Bear Guard of the Bevoliition (1886); John Sevier as a Commomoealth Builder (1888); Advance Guard of Western Civilization (1889); The Last of the Thorn- dikes (1890); Personal Becollections of Abraham Lincoln (1899), and many contributions to peri- odicals.

QILMORE, Joseph Albree, governor of New Hampshire, was born in Weston, Vt., June 10, 1811; son of Asa and Lucy (Dodge) Gilmore; grandson of Joseph Gilmore who fought at Bunker Hill and Bennington ; and a descendant of Robert Gilmore of Londonderry, N.H. His edu- cational advantages were limited and while yet a mere boy he earned the money that enabled him to make the journey to Boston where he obtained work in a store. . On reaching his ma- jority he was in business for himself and was married to Ann, daughter of Samuel Whipple of Dunbarton, N.H. In 1842 he removed to Con- cord, N.H., where he established a wholesale grocery business. In 1848 he engaged in the railroad business as construction agent of the Concord & Claremont railroad, and was subse- quently superintendent of that line, the Man- chester & Lawrence, the Contoocook valley, the