Gilmer, Jeremy Francis – Gladden, Washington
Gilmer, Jeremy Francis
soldier, civil engineer, was born Feb. 23, 1818, in Guilford county, N. C. He was appointed major of engineers in 1861, and in 1863 was promoted major-general.
Gilmer, John Alexander
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1805, in Guilford county, N. C.
He was a member of the state senate from 1846 to 1856, and was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress, and withdrew in 1861. He died May 14, 1868, in Greensborough.
Gilmer, Thomas Walker
lawyer, journalist, congressman, governor, was born in Virginia. He served frequently in the legislature, and was speaker of the house. He was governor of the state in 1840; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1841 to 1843. He was secretary of the navy under President Tyler. He died Feb. 28, 1844, near Washington, D. C.
Gilmor, Harry
soldier, author, was born Jan. 24, 1838, in Baltimore county, Md. He joined the confederate army; was rapidly promoted; and was appointed provost marshal of Gettysburg. In 1874 he was elected police commissioner of Baltimore. He was the author of Four Years in a Saddle. He died March 4, 1883, in Baltimore, Md.
Gilmore, Alfred
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.
Gilmore, James Roberts
merchant, journalist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1823, in Boston, Mass. In earlier life he was a shipping merchant in New York city, but during and since the civil war a journalist and miscellaneous writer. He is the author of Among the Pines; My Southern Friends; Down in Tennessee; Life of Garfield; Among the Guerrillas; Adrift in Dixie; On the Border; Patriot Boys; The Rear Guard of the Revolution; John Sevier as a Commonwealth Builder; and The Advance Guard of Western Civilization. He
Gilmore, John
congressman. was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1833. He died May 18, 1845.
Gilmore, John C
soldier, was born April 18, 1837, in Canada. He served as captain, major, and lieutenant in the sixteenth regiment New York volunteer infantry; and received the medal of honor for distinguished conduct in the battle of Salem Heights for seizing the colors of his regiment and gallantly rallying his men under a very severe fire of the enemy while serving as major. In 1866 he entered the regular army, and became a lieutenant-colonel in 1867. He will be retired in 1901.
Gilmore, Joseph Atherton
railroad builder, state senator, governor, was born June 10, 1811, in Weston, Vt. He was superintendent of the Manchester and Lawrence railroad from 1853 to 1856; and also of the Concord and other connecting lines until 1866. He was state senator in 1858 and 1859; president of that body in 1859; and was governor of New Hampshire from 1863 to 1865. He died April 17, 1867, in Concord, N. H.
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.
Gilpin, Edward Woodward
lawyer, jurist, was born July 15, 1805, in Wilmington, Del. He was attorney-general of Delaware in 1840-50; and from 1857 till his death was chief justice of the state. He died April 29, 1876, in Dover, Del.
Gilpin, Henry Dilwood
jurist, author, was born April 14, 1801, in England. He was a jurist of Pennsylvania who was attorney-general of the United States in 1840-41. He edited The Atlantic Souvenir, the first American literary annual, and published Reports of Cases in the United States District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; and Opinions of the Attorneys- General. He also edited the Papers of President Madison in three volumes. He died Jan. 29, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gilpin, Joshua
author, poet, was born Nov. 8, 1765, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was a Philadelphia writer who published Verses at the Fountain of Vaucluse; Farm of Virgil, and Other Poems; and Memoir on a Canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware. He died in 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Gilpin, Thomas
manufacturer, was born March 18, 1728, in Chester county, Pa. He aided in establishing Wilmington college, Delaware, and labored for the construction of a canal between the Chesapeake and the Delaware. He died April 30, 1778, in Winchester, Va.
Gilpin, Thomas
manufacturer, inventor, was born Sept. 10, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pa. He became an extensive paper-manufacturer, and in 1817 structed a machine for making paper continuously. He died March 3, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa. con-
Gilpin, William
soldier, governor, was born Oct. 4, 1822, in Brandywine, Pa.
He was appointed first governor of Colorado by President Lincoln and was, with Benjamin F. Hall, the chief justice, and other officers, instrumental in saving the territory to the union. He died Jan. 20, 1894.
Gilson, Frank Rindge
journalist, was born Dec. 30, 1848, in Charlestown, Mass. He is editor and owner of the Palladium Daily of Benton Harbor, Mich.; and president of the Michigan Republican Newspaper association.
Gilstrap, William Henry
portrait and landscape painter, prohibitionist, was born April 24, 1849, in Effingham county, Ill. He was one of the incorporators of the Bloomington Art association, and was one of its first trustees. He has a studio in the Ferry museum of Tacoma, Wash., of which institution he is the curator. Since 1870 he has been an active prohibitionist; in 1892 organized and was made chairman of the prohibition party of Tacoma; and has filled numerous high positions in that party. For several years he was editor and proprietor of the Pacific Lancet; and is the author of several works.
Girard, Charles
naturalist, author, was born March 9, 1822, in France. He is a naturalist who came to the United States with Agassiz in 1847; and is the author of Life in its Physical Aspects; Contributions to the Fauna of Chili; and Herpetology of the Wilkes Expedition.
Girard, Stephen
merchant, philanthropist, was born May 24, 1750, near Bordeaux, France. In 1780 he engaged in the West India trade, and acquired a fortune. He founded the Girard college of Philadelphia for the education and maintenance of orphans. He died Dec. 26, 1831, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Girardeau, John L
clergyman, author, was born in 1825, in South Carolina. He is a presbyterian clergyman of South Carolina, and professor of systematic theology in Columbia Theological seminary from 1876. He is the author of Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism Compared; and The Will in its Theological Relations.
Gist, Joseph
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1775, in South Carolina. He served in the legislature of his native state for eighteen years; and was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1821 to 1827. He served as a trustee of the state college. He died May 8, 1835.
Gist, Mordecai
soldier, merchant, planter, was born ir. 1743, in Baltimore, Md. He served with distinction through the revolutionary war, was promoted to brigadier-general, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis. With the cessation of hostilities he purchased a plantation at Charleston, S. C., where he resided until the close of his life. He died Sept. 2, 1792, in Charleston, S. C.
Gist, William H
governor, was born in South Carolina. He was governor of that state from 1858 to 1860.
Githens, Cournelli E
poet, was born Dec. 27, 1863, in Cameron, Ohio. He is the author of numerous poems which have appeared in current periodicals.
Gittings, Ella Pamela Beech- Er
educator, author, poet, was born Feb. 18, 1852, in Oberlin, Ohio. She received her education at the Oberlin and Iowa colleges, and prior to her marriage taught school. She has attained success as a writer of stories and poems; and has taken an active part in the world's congress, etc.
Given, William
naval officer, was born Dec. 5, 1832, in Columbus, Ohio. He entered the United States navy as a midshipman, and was successively promoted lieutenant and lieutenant-commander.
He died Jan. 3, 1863.
Gladden, Adley H
soldier, was born in South Carolina. In 1861 he was appointed a brigadier-general in the confederate army; was wounded at the battle of Shiloh; and died soon afterward.
Gladden, Washington
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 11, 1836, in Pittsgrove, Pa. He is a congregational clergyman of Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Lord's Prayers; Seven Homilies; The Christian League of Connecticut; Things New and Old; Amusements, their Uses and Abuses; Plain Thoughts on the Art of Living; From the Hub to the Hudson; Being a Christian; Working-People and their Employers; The Christian Way; The Young Man and the Church; Applied Christianity; Parish Problems; Tools and the Man Who Wrote the Bible?; Ruling Ideas of the Present Age; The Cosmopolis City Club; and Burning Questions, a volume of sermons.