Daniel Coit Gilman (; July 6, 1831 – October 13, 1908) was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, ...
at
Yale College
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...
,
and subsequently served as the second president of the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, as the first president of
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
, and as founding president of the
Carnegie Institution
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. Eponymous halls at both Berkeley and Hopkins pay tribute to his service. He was also co-founder of the
Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior class society at the university, Skull and Bone ...
society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins; his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of
postgraduate education
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in the U.S."
Biography
Early years
Born in
Norwich, Connecticut
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, the son of Eliza (''née'' Coit) and mill owner William Charles Gilman, a descendant of Edward Gilman, one of the first settlers of
Exeter, New Hampshire, of Thomas Dudley
Thomas Dudley (12 October 157631 July 1653) was a New England colonial magistrate who served several terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Dudley was the chief founder of Newtowne, later Cambridge, Massachusetts, and built the tow ...
, Governor of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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and one of the founders of
Harvard College
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...
, and of Thomas Adgate, one of the founders of
Norwich
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in 1659. Daniel Coit Gilman graduated from
Yale College
Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, ...
in 1852 with a degree in geography. At Yale he was a classmate of
Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator who cofounded Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricu ...
, who would later serve as first president of
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
. The two were members of the
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior class society at the university, Skull and Bone ...
secret society, and traveled to Europe together after graduation and remained lifelong friends. Gilman was also a member of the
Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi (), commonly known as Alpha Delt, ADPhi, A-Delt, or ADP, is a North American Greek-letter social college fraternity. Alpha Delta Phi was originally founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells in 1832 at Hamilton College in Cli ...
fraternity. Gilman would later co-found the
Russell Trust Association, the foundation behind
Skull and Bones
Skull and Bones, also known as The Order, Order 322 or The Brotherhood of Death, is an undergraduate senior secret student society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The oldest senior class society at the university, Skull and Bone ...
. After serving as
attaché
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of the United States
legation
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at
St. Petersburg, Russia
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from 1853 to 1855, he returned to Yale and was active in planning and raising funds for the founding of
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, ...
. Gilman contemplated going into the ministry, and even took out a license to preach, but later settled on a career in education.
Career
From 1856 to 1865 Gilman served as librarian of Yale College, and was also concerned with improving the
New Haven
New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...
public school system. When the
Civil War
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The aim of one side may be to take control of the country or a region, to achieve independence for a region, or to change government policies ...
broke out, Gilman became the recruiting sergeant for the Norton Cadets, a group of Yale graduates and faculty who drilled on the
New Haven Green
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under the oversight of Yale professor
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. In 1863, Gilman was appointed professor of geography at the
Sheffield Scientific School
Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847 as a school of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, for instruction in science and engineering. Originally named the Yale Scientific School, it was renamed in 1861 in honor of Joseph E. Sheffield, ...
, and became secretary and librarian as well in 1866. Having been passed over for the presidency of Yale, for which post Gilman was said to have been the favorite of the younger faculty, he resigned these posts in 1872 to become the third president of the newly organized
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
His work there was hampered by the
state legislature, and in 1875 Gilman accepted the offer to establish and become first president of
Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...
.
Before being formally installed as president in 1876, he spent a year studying university organization and selecting an outstanding staff of teachers and scholars. His formal inauguration, on 22 February 1876, has become Hopkins' Commemoration Day, the day on which many university presidents have chosen to be installed in office. Among the legendary educators he assembled to teach at Johns Hopkins were classicist
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (October 23, 1831January 9, 1924) was an American classical scholar. An author of numerous works, and founding editor of the ''American Journal of Philology'', he has been credited with contributions to the syntax of Gre ...
, mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester (3 September 1814 – 15 March 1897) was an English mathematician. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. He played a leadership ro ...
, historian
Herbert Baxter Adams
Herbert Baxter Adams (April 16, 1850 – July 30, 1901) was an American educator and historian who brought German rigor to the study of history in America; a founding member of the American History Association; and one of the earliest ed ...
and chemist
Ira Remsen
Ira Remsen (February 10, 1846 – March 4, 1927) was an American chemist who discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin along with Constantin Fahlberg. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University.
Early life
Ira Remsen was bor ...
.
In 1876, Gilman was elected as a member to the
American Philosophical Society
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.
Gilman's primary interest was in fostering advanced instruction and research, and as president he developed the first American graduate university in the
German
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tradition. The aim of the modern research university, said Gilman, was to "extend, even by minute accretions, the realm of knowledge" At his inaugural address at Hopkins, Gilman asked: "What are we aiming at?" The answer, he said, was "the encouragement of research and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell."
In 1884, Gilman was elected a member of the
American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and a national research library of pre-twentieth-century American history and culture. Founded in 1812, it is the oldest historical society in ...
.
![Daniel Coit Gilman William Rainey Harper](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Daniel_Coit_Gilman_William_Rainey_Harper.jpg)
Gilman was also active in founding
Johns Hopkins Hospital
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. It was founded in 1889 using money from a bequest of over $7 million (1873 mo ...
(1889) and
Johns Hopkins Medical School
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(1893). He founded and was for many years president of the Charity Organization of
Baltimore
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, and in 1897 he served on the commission to draft a new charter for
Baltimore
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.
[''New Century Reference Library'', 1907] From 1896 to 1897, he was a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between
Venezuela
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and
British Guiana
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The first European to encounter Guiana was S ...
.
Gilman served as a trustee of the
John F. Slater and
Peabody education funds and as a member of John D. Rockefeller's
General Education Board The General Education Board was a private organization which was used primarily to support higher education and medical schools in the United States, and to help rural white and black schools in the South, as well as modernize farming practices i ...
. In this capacity, he became active in the promotion of education in the
southern United States
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. He was also president of the
National Civil Service Reform League The National Civil Service Reform League was a non-profit organization in the United States founded in 1881 for the purpose of investigating the efficiency of the civil service. Among its founders were George William Curtis, chairman of the first Un ...
(1901–1907) and the
American Oriental Society
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The Society encourages basic ...
(1893–1906), vice president of the
Archaeological Institute of America
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, and executive officer of the Maryland Geological Survey.
He retired from Johns Hopkins in 1901, but accepted the presidency (1902–1904) of the newly founded
Carnegie Institution
The Carnegie Institution of Washington (the organization's legal name), known also for public purposes as the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS), is an organization in the United States established to fund and perform scientific research. Th ...
of Washington.
His books include biographies of
James Monroe
James Monroe ( ; April 28, 1758July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was ...
(1883) and
James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcano, volcanic activity, and the ...
, a collection of addresses entitled ''University Problems'' (1898), and ''The Launching of a University'' (1906).
Personal life
![Daniel Coit Gilman House Baltimore Maryland 1936](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Daniel_Coit_Gilman_House_Baltimore_Maryland_1936.jpg)
Gilman married twice. His first wife was Mary Van Winker Ketcham, daughter of Tredwell Ketcham of New York. They married on December 4, 1861, and had two daughters: Alice, who married Everett Wheeler; and
Elisabeth Gilman
Elisabeth Coit Gilman (December 25, 1867 – December 14, 1950) was an American socialist and civil liberties advocate.
Early life
Elisabeth Coit Gilman was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 25, 1867 to Daniel Coit Gilman and Mary Ketc ...
, who became a social activist and was a candidate for mayor of Baltimore, and for governor and senator of Maryland, on the
Socialist Party of America
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ticket. Mary Ketcham Gilman died in 1869, and Daniel Coit Gilman married his second wife, Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey, daughter of John M. Woolsey of
Cleveland
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,
Ohio
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, and niece of Yale president
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (31 October 1801 – 1 July 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.
Biography
Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born 31 October 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabe ...
, in 1877. Daniel Gilman's brother Dr. Edward Whiting Gilman was married to Julia Silliman, daughter of Yale Professor and chemist
Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to use the process of fractional distillat ...
. Daniel Coit Gilman died in Norwich, Connecticut.
Legacy
The original academic building on the
Homewood campus The Homewood Campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. It houses the two major undergraduate schools: the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts ...
of the Johns Hopkins University, Gilman Hall, is named in his honor. In 1897, he helped found a preparatory school called 'The Country School for Boys' on the Johns Hopkins campus. Upon relocation in 1910, it was renamed in his honor and today, the
Gilman School
Gilman School is an all-boys independent school located in the Roland Park neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. There are three school divisions: Lower School, grades pre-kindergarten through five; Middle School, grades six through eight; and Upp ...
continues to be regarded among the nation's elite private boys' schools.
On the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
campus,
Gilman Hall
Gilman Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23, 1941 and as such, is designated a National Historic La ...
, also named in his honor, is the oldest building of the
College of Chemistry and a National Historic Chemical Landmark. Named for Gilman as well is Gilman Street in Berkeley. Gilman Drive, which passes through the
University of California, San Diego
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campus in La Jolla, CA is also named for Gilman. The
Daniel Coit Gilman Summer House, in Maine, was declared a U.S.
National Historic Landmark
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in 1965.
[ and ] Gilman High School in
Northeast Harbor, Maine
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The original settlers, the Someses and Richardsons, arrived around 1761.
The village has a significant summe ...
, was named for Daniel Coit Gilman, who was active in local educational affairs, but it was later rebuilt and christened
Mount Desert
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High School.
Published works by Daniel Coit Gilman
* ''Scientific Schools in Europe'', Hartford, 1856
* ''A Historical Discourse Delivered in Norwich, Connecticut, September 7, 1859, at the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the Town'', Boston, 1859
''The Library of Yale College: Historical Sketch'' New Haven, 1860
* ''Our National Schools of Science'', Cambridge, 1867
* ''Statement of the Progress and Condition of the University of California'', Berkeley, 1875
* ''James Monroe in His Relations to the Public Service During Half a Century, 1776–1826'', Boston, 1883
''The Benefits Which Society Derives from Universities'' Baltimore, 1885
* ''An Address Before the
Phi Beta Kappa
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Society of Harvard University, July 1, 1886'', Baltimore, 1886
* ''Development of the Public Library in America'', Ithaca, 1891
* ''Our Relations to Our Other Neighbors'', Baltimore, 1891
''The Johns Hopkins University from 1873 to 1893'' Baltimore, 1893
* ''Recollections of the Life of John Glenn Who Died in Baltimore, March 30, 1896'', Baltimore, 1896
* ''University Problems in the United States'', New York, 1898
* ''Democracy in America'',
Alexis de Tocqueville
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, introduction by Daniel Coit Gilman, New York, 1898
''The Life of James Dwight Dana, Scientific Explorer, Mineralogist, Geologist, Zoologist, Professor in Yale University'' New York, 1899
* ''Memorial of Samuel de Champlain: Who Discovered the Island of Mt. Desert, Maine, September 5, 1604'', Baltimore, 1904
* ''The Launching of a University and Other Papers'', New York, 1906
Papers of Daniel Coit Gilman
Th
Papers of Daniel Coit Gilmanwere donated to Johns Hopkins University by Gilman's daughter Elisabeth, and are open on an unrestricted basis to the public at the
Milton S. Eisenhower Library The Homewood Campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland. It houses the two major undergraduate schools: the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts a ...
at Hopkins. Aside from many photographs of Gilman and his contemporaries, the papers include Gilman's correspondence with leading figures of the day, including
Charles W. Eliot
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,
Sidney Lanier
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,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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,
Henry James
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,
James Russell Lowell
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,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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,
William McKinley
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,
Basil Gildersleeve,
Theodore Roosevelt
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,
Woodrow Wilson
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,
George Bancroft
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,
Alexander Graham Bell
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,
Thomas Huxley
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The stor ...
,
Andrew Carnegie
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,
Horace Greeley
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,
Helen Keller,
Louis Pasteur
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,
Henry Ward Beecher
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,
William Osler
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,
W.E.B. Du Bois
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,
Booker T Washington
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and others.
See also
*
Daniel Coit Gilman Summer House
*
Elisabeth Gilman
Elisabeth Coit Gilman (December 25, 1867 – December 14, 1950) was an American socialist and civil liberties advocate.
Early life
Elisabeth Coit Gilman was born in New Haven, Connecticut on December 25, 1867 to Daniel Coit Gilman and Mary Ketc ...
*
Gilman School
Gilman School is an all-boys independent school located in the Roland Park neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. There are three school divisions: Lower School, grades pre-kindergarten through five; Middle School, grades six through eight; and Upp ...
*
Gilman Hall
Gilman Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium as a new element on February 23, 1941 and as such, is designated a National Historic La ...
*
Frances Benjamin Johnston
Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952) was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various ...
*
Benjamin Silliman
Benjamin Silliman (August 8, 1779 – November 24, 1864) was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to use the process of fractional distillat ...
*
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Theodore Dwight Woolsey (31 October 1801 – 1 July 1889) was an American academic, author and President of Yale College from 1846 through 1871.
Biography
Theodore Dwight Woolsey was born 31 October 1801 in New York City. His mother was Elizabe ...
*
Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 – November 4, 1918) was an American historian and educator who cofounded Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of college curricu ...
*
Skull and Bones
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References
Further reading
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Francesco Cordasco Francesco M. Cordasco (November 2, 1920 – October 4, 2001) was an American sociologist and bibliographer who wrote and edited over 100 books.Arthur G. James, Obituaries in the News, ''AP Online'', October 24, 2001. Availabl(subscription only) at H ...
(1973). ''The Shaping of American Graduate Education: Daniel Coit Gilman and the Protean Ph.D.'' Totowa, NJ:
Rowman and Littlefield
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Daniel Coit Gilman papers– Finding aid for collection of Gilman papers at the Johns Hopkins University
A Historical Discourse Delivered in Norwich, Connecticut, September 7, 1859, Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the Town, Daniel Coit Gilman, Printed by George C. Rand & Avery, Boston, Mass., 1859"> A Historical Discourse Delivered in Norwich, Connecticut, September 7, 1859, Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of the Town, Daniel Coit Gilman, Printed by George C. Rand & Avery, Boston, Mass., 1859*
Statue of Daniel Coit Gilman, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, monumentcity.org*
ttp://historicbuildingsct.com/?p=1157 The Graves-Gilman House, New Haven, Connecticut, Historic Buildings of ConnecticutDaniel Coit Gilman HIstoric Marker, Bolton HIll Historic District, Baltimore, Maryland
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