GILMORE
GILilORE
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&