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Gilmer (surname)
Gilmer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Gilmer (1829–1906), sawmill owner * Dixie Gilmer (1901–1954), U.S. Representative from Oklahoma *Elizabeth Gilmer Dame Elizabeth May Gilmer (née Seddon; 24 March 1880 – 29 February 1960) was a New Zealand social worker, educationist and horticulturist. She chaired the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild. Early life and career Born as Elizabeth May Seddon at ... (1880–1960), New Zealand social worker, educationist and horticulturist *Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861–1951), American columnist better known as Dorothy Dix *Dr. George Gilmer, Sr. (1700–1757), mayor of Williamsburg, Virginia *George Rockingham Gilmer (1790–1859), American politician *Harry Gilmer (1926–2016), College Football Hall of Fame member and National Football League player *Jeremy Francis Gilmer (1818–83), American soldier, Chief Engineer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War *John Adams Gilmer (1805 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gilmer
Alexander Gilmer (September 7, 1829 – July 30, 1906) was a sawmiller that became one of the United States' most successful individual timberland owners in his era. Nicknamed "Sandy", he was born in County Armagh, Ireland, the son of George and Jane Gilmer. He immigrated to Georgia at the age of seventeen where he constructed shipmasts for the French government with his brother John. Together, they built a steamboat to work the Chattahoochee, but suffered a major setback when it sank, leaving Gilmer almost penniless. In the late 1840s, he migrated to Orange, Texas, where he entered the shipbuilding business with his cousin George C. Gilmer. The two would shortly after enter the mercantile business and continue until the Civil War. Alexander participated in the war as a Confederate blockade runner in The Battle of Sabine Pass. In 1866, Gilmer founded his first sawmill. He would eventually own sawmills and lumberyards in as many as ten communities. One of these, named Reml ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dixie Gilmer
William Franklin "Dixie" Gilmer (June 7, 1901 – June 9, 1954) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma. Biography Born in Mount Airy, North Carolina, Gilmer was the son of W. F. and Emma Prather Gilmer. He moved with his parents to Oklahoma, and attended the public schools of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He served as a page in the House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919, and graduated from the law school of the University of Oklahoma in Norman in 1923. Admitted to the bar in 1923, he commenced the practice of law in Wetumka, Oklahoma, and also served as a police judge and mayor. Career Gilmer served as member of the State house of representatives in 1927. In 1928, he married Ellen McClure of Celeste, Texas, and they had no children. He moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1929, and served as assistant county attorney of Tulsa County, Oklahoma from 1931 to 1933, as well as County attorney of Tulsa County 1936-1946. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gilmer
Dame Elizabeth May Gilmer (née Seddon; 24 March 1880 – 29 February 1960) was a New Zealand social worker, educationist and horticulturist. She chaired the Lady Galway Patriotic Guild. Early life and career Born as Elizabeth May Seddon at Kumara to the future New Zealand Prime Minister Richard Seddon and Louisa Jane (Spotswood) Seddon, she attended the Kumara School and Wellington Girls' College. Throughout her life she was involved in a staggering array of welfare and women's organisations in addition to her most abiding interests which were conservation and horticulture. She was a prominent member of the Wellington branch of the National Council of Women and represented New Zealand at the international council's conference at Lugano, Switzerland, in 1949. From 1934 to 1957 she served as the Government nominee on the Wellington Colleges' Board of Governors. She worked on the passage of the Native Plant Protection Act and the reinstatement of Arbor Day. Political career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Dix
Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (November 18, 1861 – December 16, 1951), widely known by the pen name Dorothy Dix, was an American journalist and columnist. As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Dix was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death. Her advice on marriage was syndicated in newspapers around the world. With an estimated audience of 60 million readers, she became a popular and recognized figure on her travels abroad. In addition to her journalistic work, she joined in the campaign for woman suffrage and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Life Elizabeth Meriwether was born to William Meriwether and Maria (Winston) Meriwether on the Woodstock plantation located on the borders of Montgomery County, Tennessee and Todd County, Kentucky. She attended Clarksville Female Academy and later completed one semester at the Hollins Institute. In 1888, she married her stepmother's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gilmer, Sr
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George Rockingham Gilmer
George Rockingham Gilmer (April 11, 1790 – November 16, 1859) was an American politician. He served two non-consecutive terms as the 34th Governor of Georgia, the first from 1829 to 1831 and the second from 1837 to 1839. He also served multiple terms in the United States House of Representatives. Early life Gilmer was born near Lexington, Georgia, in what is present day Oglethorpe County ( Wilkes County at the time of his birth). He attended a variety of backwood schools, including Moses Waddell's famous Willington Academy. He served as first lieutenant in the Forty-third Infantry Regiment from 1813 to 1815 in the campaign against the Creek during the War of 1812. He practiced law as a profession. Political career Gilmer's career consisted of multiple, alternating, elected positions at the state and federal level. Of the two great Georgia political factions known as the Crawford men and the Clarke men, he favored Crawford. He was elected to the Georgia House of Representa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Gilmer
Harry Vincent Gilmer Jr. (April 14, 1926 – August 20, 2016) was an American football halfback and quarterback in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and Detroit Lions. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1993. Early life Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Gilmer attended and played high school football at its Woodlawn High School. He often utilized the technique of leaping high into the air to pass the ball because, as a child, he often played pickup games with teammates who were much older and thus taller than he was; Gilmer was then one of the first players to popularize the "jump pass" when he continued using the technique at the collegiate level. College career After high school, Gilmer played college football at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he was the left halfback from 1944 to 1947. As a freshman, he was 8 for 8 in passing attempts during a loss against Duke University in the Sugar Bowl. Gilmer's best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Francis Gilmer
Jeremy Francis Gilmer (February 23, 1818 – December 1, 1883) was an American soldier, mapmaker, and civil engineer most noted for his service as the Chief Engineer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. As a Major general (United States), major general, he oversaw the planning of the elaborate defenses of the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Early life Gilmer was born in Guilford County, North Carolina on February 23, 1818.Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . p. 598. He entered the army corps of engineers as a Second Lieutenant#United States, second lieutenant upon his graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on July 1, 1839. He ranked fourth in a graduating class that included future fellow Civil War generals Henry Wager Halleck, Halleck, Edward Canby, Canby, Henry Jackson Hunt, Hunt, and Edward Ord, Ord. He was an assistant professor of engineering at West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adams Gilmer
John Adams Gilmer (November 4, 1805 – May 4, 1868) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina. Gilmer was born in Guilford County, North Carolina near Greensboro. His parents were Robert Shaw Gilmer and Anne Forbes. He was the brother of Confederate Maj. Gen Jeremy Francis Gilmer. Gilmer attended the public schools and an academy in Greensboro. After receiving his education, he taught school. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1832 and began practice in Greensboro. He later served as the Guilford County solicitor. He was a member of the State senate from 1846 to 1856. In 1856, Gilmer was the Whig candidate for Governor of North Carolina but was defeated. He was elected as the candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fifth Congress and reelected as a candidate of the Opposition Party to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859 – March 3, 1861). During the Thirty-sixth Congress, he was the Chairman of the Committee on Elections. In January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Walker Gilmer
Thomas Walker Gilmer (April 6, 1802 – February 28, 1844) was an American statesman. He served in a number of political positions in Virginia, including election as the 28th Governor of Virginia. Gilmer's final political office was as the 15th Secretary of the Navy, but he died in an accident ten days after assuming that position. Personal life Gilmer was born tGeorge Gilmerand Elizabeth Anderson Hudson at their farm, "Gilmerton", in Albemarle County, Virginia. He was taught by private tutors and his unclPeachy Ridgeway Gilmerin Charlottesville and Staunton, and studied law in Liberty (now Bedford), Virginia.Jamerson, p. 61Lewis, p. 686 Gilmer practiced law in Charlottesville. He was, briefly, editor of the ''Virginia Advocate'', a Charlottesville newspaper. On May 23, 1826, Gilmer married Anne Elizabeth Baker of Shepherdstown, now in West Virginia. Her late father, John Baker, had been a member of the United States House of Representatives. They had a son, George Hudson Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gilmer
William Wirt Gilmer (May 21, 1863 – January 8, 1955) was a United States Navy Captain who served as both the 22nd and 24th Naval Governor of Guam. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, he commanded the USS ''South Carolina'' during World War I, for which he received the Navy Cross. During his two terms as governor, he proved one of the most contentious leaders in Guam's history. He exercised a large amount of control over islanders' daily lives, including banning whistling and smoking and setting up a curfew. He came into conflict with prominent Americans and Washington Naval leaders when he outlawed marriage between whites and non-whites on the island, believing the Chamorro people inferior. Eventually, concerned islanders gained the attention of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, who had Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt personally order the rescinding of the act. Gilmer was removed for a short time before serving a second term. During ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilmore (surname)
Gilmore and Gillmore are surnames with several origins and meanings. The name can be of Irish, in particular from Ulster, and Scottish Highland origin, Anglicised from the Gaelic ''Mac Gille Mhoire'' (Scottish Gaelic), ''Mac Giolla Mhuire'' ( Ulster Irish Gaelic). The name was a patronymic name meaning "servant of ( the Virgin) Mary". Gilmore is an alternative, or sept, of Clan Morrison from Scotland, known as MacGilleMhoire in Scottish Gaelic. Gillmore has been noted as a derivative of the Scottish Gaelic '' Gille-mohr'', meaning "great servant", a name given to the armour-bearer to a Highland chief, or more prosaically to the servant or henchman of a chief. Another origin of the surname Gilmore is Irish, with two separate meanings. In County Armagh, the name is an Anglicised form of ''Mac Giolla Mhura'' "servant of St. Mura" (of Fahan, County Donegal). In County Sligo, ''Gilmore'' is an Anglicisation of ''Mac Giolla Mhir'' meaning "son of the spirited lad". People su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
