Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852. Alpha Delta Phi)
Academic administrator. Educator. Librarian. Author. Yale College. Linonia Society. Skull and Bones. Alpha Delta Phi.
Founde of the Charity Organisation Society, Baltimoe Reform League, Municipal Art Society, New Mercantile Library and a member of the Board of School Commissioners, of the Commission to draft a Charter of Baltimore in 1897.[4]
Trustee of the Peabody Institute, Enoch Pratt Free Library and Samuel Ready Orphan School.[4]
Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation.[4]
Incorporate of the General Education Board.[4]
President of the American Bible Society, of which his brother Rev Edward W. Gilman (Y.C. 1843) was for thirty years Secretary.[4]
Vice President of the American Social Science Association.[4]
Corresponding member of the British Associationfor the Advancement of Science and of the Massachusetts Historcal Society.[4]
Fellow of the American Association for the Avancement of Science.[4]
Office of Public Instruction in France.[4]
Member of the Cobden Club of London, American Philsophical Society, the New York Academy of Science, and other learned societies[4]
1902 to 1904 - President of the newly founded Carnegie Institution of Washington.[5]
1901 to 1907 - President of the National Civil Service Reform League, succeeding Hon Carl Schurz.**
1896 to 1897 - Member of the commission to settle he boundary line between Zenezuela and British Guiana.[1,10]
1893 to 1905 - President of the American Oriental Society.[4]
1895 - Chairman of the Committee of Awards at the Atlanta Exposition.[4]
1882 to 1937 - Trustee to Slater Fund (for education of African Americans in the Southern United States. Original Trustees… Rutherford B Hayes, Morrison R Waite (Skull and Bones), William E Dodge, Phillips Brooks, Daniel Coit Gilman (Skull and Bones), Morris Ketchum Jesup and the donor’s son (Member of Jekyll Island Club), William A. Slater; and among members chosen later were Melville W Fuller (Chief Justice succeeding Morrison Waite by President Cleveland), William E Dodge (Phelps S&B connection), Jr, Henry Codman Potter (Episcopal Church), Cleveland H Dodge (President of Phelps Dodge and advisor to Woodrow Wilson) and Seth Low (Trustee of Carnegie Institute). In 1909 by careful investment the fund had increased, in spite of expenditures, to more than $1,500,000. Atticus Greene Haygood (Episcopal Church), Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (John D. Rockefeller for school in 1905), Wallace Buttrick (First Secretary and Executive Office of the Rockefeller General Education Board), and James H. Dillard were general agents of the fund.
13 Jun 1877, married, at Newport, R I,Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey, daughter of John Mum ford Woolsey (Y. C. 1813) of Cleveland, O , and New Haven,Conn , and niece of President Woolsey. Mrs Gilman survives him with two daughters by his first marriage.[4]
1875 to 1901 - 1st President of Johns Hopkins University.[4]
1875 and 1877 - Visited the Universities of Europe to study their methods and organisation.[4]
1872 to 1875 - President of the University of California.[5]
1871 - Secretary of the Sheffield Scientific School, and was one of six incorporators. Her was later a member of the Board of Managers of the Yale Observatory.[4]
1870 - Appointed a member of the Council of the School of Fine Arts.[4]
1864 - Assisted in preparing Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary.[4]
1863, 1864, and 1865 - edited the Obituary Record of Yale Graduates.[4]
From 1863 - Appointed to Yale Corporation.[4]
December 4, 1861, Married Mary, daughter of Tredwell Ketcham of New York City. She died October 25,1869.
1856 - Founded the Russell Trust Association (Incorporated by William Huntingdon Trust Russell (S&B Co-founder) as its President and Daniel Coit Gilman S&B 1852) as its first treasure)
1856 to 1865 - Librarian of Yale College.
From 1856 to 1860 - he was also Acting Visitor of Schools in New Haven, and from 1865 to the close of 1866 was Secretary of the State Board of Education.[4]
1855 - he was appointed commissioner from Connecticut to the Universal Exposition in Paris, and was Secretary of the Board of Associated Commissioners.[4]
Between 1853 and 1906, Dr Gilman visited Europe ten times extending his travels to Algiers, Egyt and the Holy Land.[4]
Subsequently he attended lectures at the University of Berlin on physical and political geography, and travelled in various countries.[4]
1853 to 1855 - Served as attache of the United States legation at St.Petersburg, Russia by President Franklin Pierce.
1853 - Spent several months in graduate work at Harvard University, where his home was with Professor Arnold Guyot.[4]
Travelled Europe with Andrew Dickson White (S&B 1853) after University.
Continued studies in New Haven under the direction of Professor (afterward President) Porter and engaged in private teaching and literary work.
1852 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch
While in College he was the President of the Linonia Society.[4]
Prepared for College by John J Owen, who was then principal of Cornelius Institute and afterwards Professor of Latin and Greek in the College of New York.
Died 13 Oct 1908, from sudden Heart Attack. Age 77
He spent most of the summer of 1908 in southern Europe and returned to American October 7. After a brief stay with relatives in Newport, R I, he went to the home of his sister in Norwich, where he died suddenly of a Heart disease, Oct 13, at the age of 77 years. He was burried in Yantic Cememtery. He was a member of the Yale University Church.[4]
Note: At Yale, he was classmates with Andrew Dickson White (S&B 1853)
Henry Coit Kingsley (S&B 1834) - cousin of former President of Johns Hopkins University, Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852)**.
Joseph Parrish Thompson (S&B 1838) - brother-in-law of Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852); married to Daniel Coit Gilman’s sister Elizabeth C. Gilman.
Benjamin Silliman Jr. (S&B 1837) - brother-in-law of Daniel C. Gilman (S&B 1852); Daniel Coit Gilman’s brother Edward W. Gilman married Benjamin Silliman Jr.’s sister Julia Silliman.
[1] - FYI - Wiki - Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852. Alpha Delta Phi)
[5] - Find a Grave.com - Daniel Coit Gilman (S&B 1852)
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