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=Gillette, Mrs. Lucia Fidelia [Woolley].= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A
Universalist minister who published Pebbles from the Shore (verse);
Editorials and Other Waifs.
=Gillette, William Hooker.= _Ct._, 1853- ----. An actor and playwright,
among whose plays are Held by the Enemy; The Professor; Esmeralda; The
Private Secretary.
=Gilliss, James Melville.= _D. C._, 1811-1865. An astronomer of
distinction in charge of the naval observatory at Washington. United
States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere; Observations
at the Naval Observatory. _Lip._
=Gillmore, Quincy Adams.= _O._, 1825-1888. 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. Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski; Limes,
Hydraulic Cements, and Mortars; Engineer and Artillery Operations
Against the Defences of Charleston; Compressive Strength, etc., of
Building Stones of the United States.
=Gilman, Arthur.= _Il._, 1837- ----. An educator of Cambridge, and the
organizer of Radcliffe College (long known as “the Harvard Annex”).
First Steps in English Literature; Seven Historic Ages; First Steps in
English History; History of the American People; Rome from the Earliest
Times; Tales of the Pathfinders; Short Stories from the Dictionary; The
Saracens; Colonization of America; The Discovery of America; The Making
of the American Nation. He has also edited the Riverside Chaucer. _Lo._
=Gilman, Mrs. Caroline [Howard].= Ms., 1794-1888. Wife of S. Gilman,
_infra_. A writer whose married life was passed in Charleston.
Among her writings are included Recollections of a Southern Matron;
Recollections of a New England Housekeeper; The Sibyl, or New Oracles
from the Poets; Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Travelling in the
United States; Ruth Raymond; Stories and Poems. _Le._
=Gilman, Chandler Robbins.= _O._, 1802-1865. A physician of New York
City, professor from 1841 in the College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Legends of a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life of J. B. Beck,
_supra_; The Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession; Tracts
on Generation.
=Gilman, Daniel Coit.= _Ct._, 1831- ----. An educator of prominence,
President of Johns Hopkins University from 1875. Our National Schools
in Science; Life of James Monroe.
=Gilman, Nicholas Paine.= _Il._, 1849- ----. A Unitarian clergyman,
formerly of Massachusetts, prominent as a writer upon economics
and since 1895 professor of sociology at the Meadville Theological
Seminary. Profit Sharing between Employer and Employee; The Laws of
Daily Conduct; Socialism and the American Spirit. _Hou._
=Gilman, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1791-1858. A Unitarian clergyman of
Charleston, 1819-58. He published Memoirs of a New England Choir; The
History of a Ray of Light; Pleasures and Pains of a Student’s Life;
Contributions to Literature, and was the author of the noted college
song, “Fair Harvard.”
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