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Joseph Henry Gilmore

1834–1918

Born: Ap­ril 29, 1834, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.
Died: Ju­ly 23, 1918, Ro­che­ster, New York.
Buried: Mount Hope Ce­me­te­ry, Ro­ches­ter, New York.

Biography

Joseph was the son of New Hamp­shire Gov­er­nor Jo­seph Al­bree Gil­more and Ann Whip­ple, and hus­band of Ma­ry Jo­se­phine Park­hurst (mar­ried 1861).

He gra­du­at­ed in arts from Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty, Pro­vi­dence, Rhode Is­land, and in the­o­lo­gy from New­ton The­o­lo­gic­al In­sti­tu­tion, New­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts (where he lat­er taught He­brew).

From 1863–64, he was his fa­ther’s as­sist­ant while he was gov­er­nor. Dur­ing that pe­ri­od, he al­so ed­it­ed the Con­cord, New Hamp­shire, Dai­ly Mo­ni­tor.

In 1865, Gil­more be­came pas­tor at the Se­cond Baptist Church in Ro­ches­ter, New York. In 1867, he be­came pro­fess­or of Eng­lish Lang­uage and Li­ter­a­ture at Ro­ches­ter Un­i­ver­si­ty. He lat­er pas­tored in Fish­er­ville, New Hamp­shire.

Publications

• The Art of Ex­press­ion, 1876
• Familiar Chats on Books and Read­ing
• Outlines of Eng­lish and Am­er­i­can Li­ter­a­ture, 1905