Henry Gillman (November 16, 1833 – July 30, 1915) was an ethnologist, curator for the
Detroit Scientific Society, a librarian at the
Detroit Public Library, and later he was affiliated with
Harvard University's
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
Early in his career he was a survey assistant for the U.S. Department of War and made charts of many Michigan locations.
Biography
Henry Gillman was born in
Kinsale, Ireland on November 16, 1833.
In 1876, Gillman, working with the Peabody Museum and with the permission of the U.S. government, excavated the remains of the
Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is west of the Ohio border and south of the Michigan border. The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 Censu ...
burial mound. His findings were published in a report and the artifacts were given to the Peabody Museum. He had opened other mounds around
Detroit and the
River Rouge areas as well.
[
He served as consul of the United States to Jerusalem from 1886 to 1891.]
Selected bibliography
*Gillman, Henry.
The Mound-Builders in Michigan
" ''Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society, Collections'' 2 (1880): 40-52.
::Article read before the annual meeting of the Pioneer Society, 1877.
::Als
available at Pure Michigan.com
*Gillman, Henry.
Peculiarities of the Femora from tumuli in Michigan
" "Some Observations on the Orbits of the Mound Crania," and "Investigation of the Burial Mound at Fort Wayne on the Detroit River, Michigan." ''Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science'' 25 (1877): 300-324.
*Gillman, Henry.
Certain Characteristics Pertaining to Ancient Man in Michigan
"
Miscellaneous Documents of the Senate of the United States
1st sess., 44th Cong. (1876), 234-245.
*Gillman, Henry.
The Ancient Men of the Great Lakes
" ''Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science'' 25 (1876): 316-331.
*He also gave a similar report of his mound-builders in the Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1873. See
The mound-builders and platycnemism in Michigan
' Reprinted from Smithsonian report for 1873. "Certain characteristics pertaining to ancient man in Michigan," Reprinted from Smithsonian report for 1875.
*Henry Gillman.
Ancient Works at Isle Royale, Michigan
" ''Appletons' Journal: A Magazine of General Literature'' 10, no. 229, August 9, 1873, 173-175.
*Henry Gillman. "Hassan : a Fellah : a Romance of Palestine" .''The American News Company Publishers' Agents'' . 1898
References
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American anthropologists
British emigrants to the United States
People from Detroit
1833 births
1915 deaths
People from Kinsale