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Concord and the Concord & Portsmouth rail- roads. In 1858 lie was elected by the Republi- cans a state senator from the 4th district. He was re-elected in 1859 and was president of the senate. In 1863 he was one of three candidates for gov- ernor of New Hamp- shire, and as there was no choice by the pi'ciple, the state legis- lature in June, 1863, gave him the chair. In 1864 he was elected by the people by over 5000 majority. He ad- ded to the volunteer army of 15,500 men

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sent into the field by Governors Goodwin and Berry, 17,708 men, 1814 in excess of the quota demanded. He retired from office in 1865 and died at Concord, N.H., April 17, 1867.

QILMORE, Joseph Henry, educator, was born at Boston, Mass., April 29, 1834; son of Joseph Albree and Ann (Whipple) Gilmore; grandson of Asa and Lucy (Dodge) Gilmore of Weston, Vt., and of Samuel Whipple of Dunbar- ton, N.H. ; and a descendant of Robert Gilmore of Londonderry, N.H. He was graduated at Phillips Andover academy in 1853; at Brown university in 1858; and at Newton theological institution in 1861. He was instructor in He- brew at the Newton seminary, 1861-63.; was pastor of the Baptist church at Fisherville (Penacook), N.H., 1862-64; private secretary to his father. Governor Gilmore, and editor of the Concord Daily Monitor, 1864-65. He was pastor of the Second Baptist church in Rochester, N.Y., 1865-66; acting ijrofessor of Hebrew, Roch- ester theological seminary, 1867-68, and pro- fessor of logic, rhetoric and English in the University of Rochester from 1868. The Popular Science Monthly gives him the credit of having been the first professor to give a daily course of lectures on anthropology in an American college. Brown university conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 1892 He is the author of several favorably received text-books on subjects con- nected with his department, including Art of Expression (1875) ; Outlines of Logic (1879) ; Eng- lish Language and its Literature (1880) ; Chautau- quan Text-hook of English IJteraMre (1880);^ Series of Speakers (1881-83); Outlines of Wietoric (1891 ) ; and Outline Studies in English and American Literature (1891). He is also the author of the hymn beginning: He Leadeth me! 0. blessed thought which has found its way into almost all hymnals, and has been translated into many languages.

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GILMORE, Patrick Sarsfield, bandmaster, was born in Ballygar, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1829. At an early age he was apprenticed to a merchant in Athlone and there became a member of the brass band. About 1848 he accompanied a military band to Canada and subsequently found employ- ment in Boston, _ Mass., as manager of the band instrument department of a mu- sic firm. While con- nected with this house he organized a minstrel company for the purpose of adver- tising their publica- tions. He afterward became the leader of the Suffolk, of the Boston brigade, and of the Salem bands. During his four years' con- nection with the last named he gave a series of concerts in Boston music hall, as a result of which the military band became a recognized factor of indoor concerts. In 1858 he organized in Bo.ston, Mass., " Gilmore's Band," which he conducted for the remainder of his life, and with which he gave thousands of concerts. In 1861 he accompanied the 24th Massachusetts volunteers to the front and was with General Buruside's command in the Carolinas till the war depart- ment saw fit to economize by dispensing with the regimental bands. He then returned to Boston, Mass. ; but when this economical policy was found to be a mistake, he was commissioned by Governor Andrew of Jlassachusetts to reor- ganize the state military bands and again accom- panied his band to the front. Upon his arrival in New Orleans, La., in 1863, General Banks appointed him bandmaster-general of the regi- mental bands in the dejiartment of Louisiana. After the war he returned to Boston, Mass. , and spent two years preparing for the Peace Jubilee Festival held in that city in 1869. The idea was original with Mr. Gilmore and proved .so success- ful that after the signing of the treaty of Wash- ington he began planning for a World's Peace Jubilee, which was held in Boston in 1872. At the close of the latter festival the citizens pre- sented him with two gold medals and the sum of S.50.000. in appreciation of his work. In 1873 he accepted the position of bandmaster to the 22d regiment of the national guard of New York and removed to that city where he reorganized his band, making it "Gilmore's one hundred," con- verted Madison square garden into " Gilmore's earden," and there gave 600 concerts. In 187&