Joseph H. Gilmore

GILMORE, Joseph Henry. b. Boston, Massachusetts, 29 April 1834; d. Rochester, New York, 23 July 1918. The son of New Hampshire’s Governor Joseph A. Gilmore, he was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1858); and Newton Theological Seminary, Massachusetts (1861). Gilmore was ordained to the Baptist ministry in 1862 and served churches in Fisherville, New Hampshire (1862-64), and Rochester, New York (1865-67). During the Civil War he acted for a time as private secretary to his father, and also edited the Daily Monitor in Concord, New Hampshire. In 1868 he was appointed Professor of Logic, Rhetoric and English Literature at the...

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