Gilmor
Gilmor may refer to: * Harry Gilmor (1838-1883), Baltimore City Police Commissioner * Gilmor's Raid, a raid that was part of an overall campaign against Union railroads during the American Civil War See also *Gillmor *Gilmore (other) *Gilmore (surname) *Gilmour (other) *Gilmour (surname) Gilmour is a surname of Scottish or Irish origin, derived from an anglicisation of the Gaelic name ''Mac Gille Mhoire'' (meaning "Son of the Follower of the Virgin Mary"), the same origin as the name McLemore. Notable people with this surname in ...

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 ...
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Gilmore (other)
Gilmore or Gillmore may refer to: * Gilmore (surname) Places Australia * Gilmore, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Tuggeranong *Gilmore Avenue, a road in southern Perth, Western Australia *Division of Gilmore, an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales Canada * Gilmore Station, a SkyTrain station in Burnaby, British Columbia Philippines * Gilmore Avenue, Quezon City * Gilmore station (Line 2), a railway station on the Manila Line 2 in Quezon City, Philippines United States *Gilmore, Arkansas * Gilmore, Idaho * Gilmore, Maryland * Gilmore, Missouri * Gilmore, Nebraska *Gilmore, Ohio * Gilmore, Oklahoma * Gilmore City, Iowa * Gilmore Township, Benzie County, Michigan * Gilmore Township, Isabella County, Michigan *Gilmore Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania * Gilmore Creek, a river in Kansas *Gilmore Field, a minor league baseball park in Los Angeles, California * Gilmore Lake, a backcountry lake in the Sierra Nevada of California *Gil ...
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Harry Gilmor
Harry Ward Gilmor (January 24, 1838 – March 4, 1883) served as the Baltimore City Police Commissioner, head of the Baltimore City Police Department in the 1870s, but he was most noted as a daring and dashing Confederate cavalry officer during the American Civil War. Gilmor's daring raids, such as The Magnolia Station Raid through north-central Maryland in July 1864 during the third major Confederate invasion of the North gained his partisans fame as "Gilmor's Raiders". Early life Gilmor was born at "Glen Ellen", the Jacobethan/English Tudor-styled "Castle" family estate, a 25 minute walk from present-day Providence Rd, (its ruins stand about 100 yards from the waters of the Loch Raven Reservoir), just north of Towsontown in central Baltimore County, Maryland. He was the son of Robert Gilmor and Ellen (Ward) Gilmor, daughter of Judge William H. Ward. Harry was the fifth of eleven children. Civil War During the American Civil War, as a member of the "Baltimore County H ...
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Gilmor's Raid
Gilmor's Raid, also known as The Magnolia Station Train Raid, was a foraging and disruptive cavalry raid that was part of an overall campaign against Union railroads, led by Maj. Harry W. Gilmor with 135 men from the First and Second Maryland Cavalry regiments. It was authorized by Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal Early during his Valley Campaigns of 1864, which threatened Washington, D.C., during the American Civil War. Events on July 9–10 As Early advanced north and east toward Baltimore, Maryland, a Union force led by Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace met Early's forces and was defeated in the Battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864. The cavalry brigade of the Second Corps, led by Brig. Gen. Bradley T. Johnson advanced further eastward into Maryland, led by cavalry forces under the command of Maj. Harry W. Gilmor. Upon reaching Westminster, Maryland, on July 10, Gilmor attacked Union cavalry forces, driving them out. Johnson's main cavalry force continued pressing Wallace's retreating Union tro ...
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Gillmor
Gillmor may refer to: People *Arthur Hill Gillmor (1824–1903), Canadian farmer, lumberman and politician *Dan Gillmor, American technology writer * Daniel Gillmor (1849–1918), Canadian merchant and politician * Helen W. Gillmor (born 1942), United States federal judge * Paul Gillmor (1939–2007), American politician * Robert Gillmor (born 1936), English ornithologist, artist, and author * Samuel Gillmor Haughton (1889–1959), British politician Other * Mount Gillmor, a mountain of Oates Land, the United States See also * Gilmor * Gilmore (other) * Gilmore (surname) * Gilmour (other) *Gilmour (surname) Gilmour is a surname of Scottish or Irish origin, derived from an anglicisation of the Gaelic name ''Mac Gille Mhoire'' (meaning "Son of the Follower of the Virgin Mary"), the same origin as the name McLemore. Notable people with this surname in ...

Gilmour (other)
Gilmour may refer to: *Gilmour (surname), people with the surname ''Gilmour'' *Gilmour Academy, a K-12 college preparatory school in Gates Mills, Ohio, USA * Gilmour, Indiana, a small town in the United States * Gilmour (brand) owned by Fiskars (watering products, garden hoses, faucets and connectors) See also * *Gillmor * Gilmor *Gilmore (other) Gilmore or Gillmore may refer to: * Gilmore (surname) Places Australia * Gilmore, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb in the Canberra district of Tuggeranong *Gilmore Avenue, a road in southern Perth, Western Australia *Division of Gilmore, ...