Gilmore, Joseph Henry, a Baptist minister,
the son of Gov. Joseph A. Gilmore, was
born in Boston April 29, 1834; entered
Brown University in 1854, and was graduated
with high honors in 1858. The same
year he entered Newton Theological Seminary,
graduating in 1861. He was ordained
in 1862 as pastor of a Baptist Church in
Fisherville, N. H. In 1863 and 1864 he was
the private secretary to his father, at that
time Governor of New Hampshire. He was
pastor of the Second Baptist Church at
Rochester, N. Y., in 1865-67, and acting
Professor of Hebrew in Rochester Theological
Seminary in 1867-68. In 1868 he became
Professor of Logic, Rhetoric, and
English Literature in the University of
Rochester, a position which at this writing
(1911) he still retains as Professor
Emeritus, having only recently retired from
active work. Dr. Gilmore is the author of
some half dozen or more published volumes
on the subjects to which he has devoted
his life as a teacher, his latest volume being
Outlines of English and American Literature, 1905.
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