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Gilmore, Joseph Henry

clergyman, author, was born April 20, 1834, in Boston, Mass. He is a baptist minister of Rochester, N. Y.; professor of rhetoric in the university of Rochester since 1867; and is the author of Outlines of the Art of Expression; Outlines of Logic; English Language and its Early Literature; English Literature; and He Leadeth Me, and Other Poems.

GILMORE, PATRICK SARSFIELD, musician, bandmaster, was born Dec. 25, 1830, in Ireland. His first great feat as leader of a jubilee was on the fourth of March, 1864, after the restoration of New Orleans to the union, when he collected ten thousand children and five hundred instruments to inaugurate the first union governor of Louisiana. He died Sept. 24, 1892, in St. Louis, Mo.

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