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States, a result that had the effect of destroying the peace party of the north, and ensured the re- election of Abraham Lincoln. Having lost his for- tune in consequence of the war, he engaged in busi- ness again in 1873. In 1883 he finally retired, and applied himself anew to the pursuit of literature. Ilis earlier publications were " Among the Pines " (New York. 1862) : " My Southern Friends " (1862) ; " Down in Tennessee " (1863) ; '* Among the Crueril- las" (1863); "Adrift in Dixie" (1863); "On the Border " (Boston, 1864) ; and " Patriot Boys " (1864). In 1880 he prepared, in connection with Dr. Lyman Abbott, an arrangement of the gospels forming a life of Jesus, entitled the " Gospel History " (New York) : and the same year wrote in the space of thirty days a " Life of Garfield," of which, during the presidential campaign and immediately after- ward. 80,000 copies were sold. Republished subse- quently " The Rear-Guard of the Revolution," an account of the early settlement of Tennessee and of the patriotic services of John Sevier (New York, 1886), and "John Sevier as a Commonwealth-Build- er," a companion to the " Rear-Guard " (1887). He is now (1887) writing a series of southwestern his- tories. His wife, who has aided him in his literary laboi's, is a daughter of Judge John W. Edmonds.

GILMORE, Joseph Albree, governor of New Hampshire, b. in Weston, Vt., 10 June, 1811 : d. in Concord, N. H., 17 April, 1867. He enjoyed scanty educational advantages, and while a boy made his way to Boston and entered a store. At the age of twenty-one he was in business for himself. The railroad to Concord, N. H., was completed on 1 Sept., 1842, and about the same time he removed to that place, and opened a wholesale grocery. On 3 Aug., 1848, he became construction-agent, and afterward superintendent, of the Concord and Claremont rail- road, and 24 Nov., 1856, superi-ntendent of the Con- cord railroad, which came to include the Manches- ter and Lawrence and Concord and Portsmouth railroads and their branches, making a system of about 175 miles, of which he continued in charge until 11 Aug., 1866. He was politically a Whig; in 1858 was elected as a Republican to the state senate, was re-elected in 1859, and made president of the senate that year. In March, 1863, he was the Republican candidate for governor ; there was no choice by the people, but he was elected in June by the legislature, and re-elected by the people, in March, 1864. The two political contests were the severest ever known in New Hampshire, and he assumed the governorship at the darkest period of the civil war. By his predecessors. Govs. Good- win and Berry, 16 regiments of infantry, 4 compa- nies of cavalry, 1 light battery, and 3 companies of sharp-shooters, making over 17,000 volunteers, had been put nito the field ; but in 1863 patriotic fervor had somewhat abated, voluntary enlistments were few, and President Lincoln had ordered a draft. Gov. Gilmore, however, raised and equipped the 18th infantry, the 1st cavalry, and the 1st heavy artillery, which, together with the recruits for- wartled to existing organizations, made the num- ber of men furnished during his term of office about 14,000, and the entire number from New Hampshire more than 31.000, from a population of fewer than 330,000. Gov. Ciilmore retii-ed from office in June, 1865, in feeble health. His char- acteristics were restless activity, unbounded en- ergy, impatience of restraint, liberality, and pub- lic spirit. — His son. Joseph Henry, b. in Boston, Mass., 29 April, 1834, was graduated at Brown in 1858 and studied theology at Newton. He was settled as pastor of the Baptist church in Fisher- ville (now Penacook), N. H., in 1861, and was also instructor in Hebrew at Newton, but resigned and acted as private secretary to his father during the closing years of the civil war also editing the Concord "Daily Monitor" in 1864-'5. In 1865 he became pastor of the 2d Baptist church in Roch- ester, N. Y., and in 1867 professor of rhetoric in the University of Rochester. He has been an edi- torial writer on religious and literary themes, and has published several text-books, including one on the " Art of Expression " (Boston, 1881). He is the author of the popular hymn " He leadeth me ; Oh, blessed thought ! "

GILMORE, Patrick Sarsfield, musician, b. near Dublin, Ireland, 25 Dec., 1829; d. in St. Louis. Mo., 24 Sept., 1892. He adopted music at fifteen, and after having been in Canada with an English band he went to Salem, where he led a brass band, after which he settled in Boston, Mass., where he organized “Gilmore's Band,” with which he made an extensive tour. In 1861 he accompanied the 24th Massachusetts regiment to the field, and in 1863 was placed in charge of all the bands in the department of Louisiana by Gen. Banks. He originated monster concerts in this country, and was the projector of the great “Peace Jubilees” held in Boston in 1869 and 1872, and published an account of the first (Boston, 1871). In 1878 he made a European tour with his band. He was long the band-master of the 22d Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y. He composed many marches and songs.

GILMOUR, Richard. R. C. bishop, b. in Glas- gow, Scotland, 28 Sept., 1824; d. in St. Augustine, FJa., 13 April. 1891. He came to Canada in 1829, and afterward settled in Pennsylvania. He joined the Roman Catholic church at the age of twenty, and, having resolved to enter the priesthood, became a student in Mount St. Mary's seminary. He was ordained priest by Archbishop Purcell in 1852. His first missionary labors were in southern Ohio, Portsmouth, Ironton, Gallipolis, and Wilkesville, where he remained five years and built churches and schools. He was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's church, Cincinnati, in 1857, and erected a school there which he af- terward made the finest building of the kind in the state. He was next made professor in the sem- inary of Mount St. Mary's of the West, and was then sent as pastor to St. Jo- seph's church, Day- ton, Ohio, where he erected a school. He was nominated for

the see of Cleveland by the bishops of the province of Cincinnati, 15 Feb., 1872, and consecrated bishop on 14 April, by Archbishop Purcell, in the cathedral of Cincinnati. After his accession to the episcopacy he devoted himself especially to the interests of Roman Catholic education. He founded the " Catholic Universe," and, an attempt having been made to tax Roman Catholic churches and schools, he was completely successful in resisting it in the courts. During his administration of the diocese of Cleveland the number of Roman Catholics largely increased. In 1884 it amounted to 174,000. The average number of children attending the 123 parochial schools is 23,000. There are 184 priests, 217 churches, 21 chapels, 71 stations,