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Gillmore, Quincy Adams

soldier, author, was born Feb. 28, 1825, in Black River, Ohio. He was a military engineer in charge of the federal bombardment of Charleston in 1863.

He was a major-general of volunteers in the civil war, and a high authority on engineering matters.

He was the author of Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski; Limes, Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars; Engineer and Artillery Operations Against the Defences of Charleston; and Compressive Strength, etc., of Building Stones of the United States. He died April 8, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

GILLMORE, ROBERT HAMILTON, journalist, lawyer, was born Nov. 14, 1822, in Newark, Ohio. He graduated from the university of Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1855 at Zanesville, where he edited the Zanesville Gazette during 1854-55. In 1856 he moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where he became one of the leading lawyers of the state. In 1864-65 he assistant United States district attorney; and in 1867 formed a partnership with James H. Anderson, which continued until Mr. Gillmore's death. was