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Island, and much of the capitol at Albany, are his work. Mr. Gilman was a member of the American institute of architects.

GILMAN, Arthur, author, b. in Alton, Ill., 22 June, 1837. His ancestor, Edward Gilman, of an ancient Welsh family, emigrated from Norfolk, England, to Boston, Mass., in 1638. Arthur Gilman was educated in St. Louis and in New York, and is an honorary M. A. of Williams college. In 1857 he began active business as a banker in New York, but, his health becoming impaired, he removed in 1862 to the neighborhood of Lenox, Mass., where he engaged in philanthropic and educational work. In 1870 Mr. Gilman removed to Cambridge, Mass., and connected himself with the Riverside press. In 1871 he became one of the editors of the American tract society in Boston, and in 1876, together with his wife, devised a plan which subsequently took form as “The Society for the collegiate instruction of women,” familiarly known as “The Harvard annex,” of which Mr. Gilman has been executive officer ever since. Mr. Gilman's studies have been in the line of English literature and of history. He has written much for the periodical press, and has published in book-form “The Gilman Family traced in the Line of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter, N. H.” (Albany, N. Y., 1869); “First Steps in English Literature” (Boston, 1870); “Kings, Queens, and Barbarians, or Talks about Seven Historic Ages” (1870); “First Steps in General History: A Suggestive Outline” (1874); “Shakespeare's Morals,” with brief collateral readings and Scriptural references (New York, 1879); “History of the American People” (Boston, 1883); “Tales of the Pathfinders” (1884); “The Story of Rome” (New York and London, 1885); “Short Stories from the Dictionary” (Boston, 1886); and “Story of the Saracens” (New York and London, 1886). He has also edited and contributed to “Boston, Past and Present” (Boston, 1873); “Library of Religious Poetry” (New York and London, 1880); “The Kingdom of Home; Homely Poems for Home Lovers” (Boston, 1881); “Magna Charta Stories” (Boston and London, 1882); “The Story of the Nations Series,” and an “Index to the Complete Edition of the Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge” (New York, 1884). He also edited “The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer,” to which are appended poems attributed to Chaucer (3 vols., Boston and London, 1879). In this work the editor printed for the first time, for the general reader, the famous Ellesmere text of the Canterbury tales.—His wife, Stella Scott, b. in Alabama, is the author of “Mothers in Council” (New York, 1884).

GILMAN, Chandler Robbing, physician, b. in Marietta, Ohio, 6 Sept., 1802 ; d. in Middletown, Conn., 26 Sept., 1865. His ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Ohio. During his childhood his father removed to Philadelphia, where the son took the degree of M. D. in the University of Penn- sylvania in 1824, and soon afterward weilt to I'eside in New York, where the whole of his active pro- fessional life was passed. From 1841 till his death he was professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the College of physicians and surgeons, and after the death of Dr. Beck, in 1851, was also professor of medical jurisprudence. Early in life he, with his relative, Charles Fenno Hoffman, had charge of the "American Monthly." Besides numerous contributions to medical maga- zines, he published the following in book-form : " Legends of a Log-Cabin " and " Life on the Lakes" (1835); a translation, with Dr. Theodore Telikampf, of Bischofll's monograph '• On the Peri- odical Discharge of the Ovum " (New York, 1847) ; " Sketch of the Tjife and Character of Dr. J. B. Beck" (1851); "The Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession " (1856) ; an edition of Beck's "Medical Jurisprudence" (Philadelphia, 1860); " Tracts on Generation," and a " Medico-Legal Ex- amination of the Case of Charles B. Huntington."

GILMAN, Daniel Coit, educator, b. in Nor- wich, Conn., 6 July, 1831. He was graduated at Yale in 1852, and continued his studies in New Haven, and later in Berlin, where he followed the lectures of Carl Ritter and Adolph Trendelenburg. He travelled extensively in Europe, and gave at- tention to the social, political, and educational condition of the countries that he visited, and also to their physical structure. On his return in 1855 he was invited to become librarian of Yale, and subsequently to be professor of physical and politi- cal geography there, and secretary of the govern- ing board of the Sheffield scientific school. He was for a short time superintendent of the public schools of New Haven, and afterward secretary of the state board of education. From his post in Yale he was invited, in 1870, to become the first president of the University of California. This invitation was not accepted, but two years later, when another call was given, he went to California, and remained at the head of the state university till 1875. At that time he was elect- ed first president of the Johns Hop- kins university in Baltimore, and to the organization and administra- tion of that foun- dation he has since been de- voted. He was one of the origi- nal trustees of the John F. Slater fund for the edu- cation of freed- men, and the sec- retary of the board. He has

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number of addresses, reports and contributions to reviews, among which may be mentioned his inaugural discourses in California and in Maryland ; an address as presi- dent of the American social science association ; a discourse at the opening of the Sibley college in Cornell university, and another at the opening of Adelbert college in Cleveland, Ohio ; an address in Baltimore on the benefits which society derives from universities ; and an address before the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard on a kindred topic. His ideas on university and collegiate education have also been presented in articles contributed to the " North American Review," to the " Cyclopsedia of Political Science," and to other publications. He prepared a memoir of James Monroe for the " American Statesman " series (Boston, 1833), and has edited the miscellaneous writings of Francis Lieber (1881) and of Joseph P. Thompson (1884). He received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1876 and from Columbia in 1887, and he is a mem- ber of many scientific and historical societies.

GILMAN, John Taylor, governor of New Hampshire, b. in Exeter, N. H., 19 Dec, 1758 ; d. there, 1 Sept., 1828. He belonged to a family which for a century and a half, according to a well-informed writer, influenced " the political, ecclesiastical, social, and financial history of New Hamp-