American educator and author, born in Alton, IL, on the 22nd of June 1837; educated in St. Louis and New York, and received an honorary degree of master of arts from Williams College. In 1870 Mr. Gilman became connected with the Riverside Press at Cambridge, MA; and in 1871 became one of the editors of the American Tract Society. In 1876 he and his wife formulated a plan, which afterward developed into the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women, better known as the Harvard Annex. Mr. Gilman contributed to the periodicals and wrote many books on historical and literary subjects. He published First Steps in English Literature (1870); History of the American People (1883); Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic, in Story of the Nations Series (1885); The Saracens, from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Bagdad, in Story of the Nations Series (1886); etc. His most ambitious work is an edition of Chaucer, based upon the famous Ellsmere text. See also “The Good Haroun Alraschid.”
