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Civic Service Reform Association. Pn
ident t rilman held many and \ ari< rus p< i
sitions in scientific, literary and cr\ i
ciations. He was a corresponding mem-
ber of the British Association, and the
Massachusetts Historical Society; an
officer of the Public Instruction of France;
president of the American Oriental S<
ciety, [893-1906; president of the American
Social Science Association; coun
lor and vice president of the Archaeologi-
cal Institute of America; president of the
Association of Colleges in the Middle
States. He also was ne of the In Mid of
visitors Of the United State- Military and
Naval Academies; a member of the com-
mittee of awards at the Atlanta Exposi-
tion in [895 ;
EN( YCLI >PED1 \ i »F BI< iGRAPHY
a commissioner on the boun-
dary line between Venezuela and British
Guiana, [896-97; a member of the com-
mittee to draft a new charter for the city
of Baltimore, in 1807; also a member of
the Board of School Commissioners for
that city, in [900; and a trustee of the
Russell Sage Foundation. On his gradu-
ation from Yale he received the degTee of
A. M., and in [876 he was honored by
Harvard University conferring upon him
the degree of LL. D. lie also received
the latter degree from St. John's College
in 1876; from Columbia University in
[887; from Yale University in 1889;
from the University of North Carolina in
eloquenl a iker, making
worthy ad
;
before the Ameri< an
ial Scii ition at meetii
held in Baltimore and Boston, upon the
benefits that the university confers upon
society in general. No less notable •
his eloquent address at the opening of
Siblej I
it Cornell University, and
at the opening of Adalbert College at
Cleveland, Ohio. Besides his strictl) '-du-
rational writings, he was the author of
the bi-centenniaJ discourse at Norwich,
nnecticut, published privately in 1850;
an inaugural address published by Johns
Hopkins University Press in 1870; "Life
of lames Monroe." Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., [883, and a second edition in 1898;
"University Problems," Century Company,
1S8S; "An Introduction to DeToc-
queville's Democracy in America;" "Life
of James D. Dana, Geologist," Harper
I'.ros., 1800: "Science and Letters in
Wale." [901; 'Launching of a Univer-
sity," Dodd. Mead & Company, 1906.
President
< iilman's first marriage was
celebrated in [86l, to Mary, daughter of
T. Ketcham ;
she
died in [869. His sec-
ond marriage took place in 1877, to Elizabeth
Dwight, daughter of John M.
Woolsey, librarian and secretary of the
Sheffield Scientific School, and Professor
of Physical and Political Geography. Yale
University. President Gilman died at
[889; from Princeton University in 189/); Norwich, Connecticut, October 15, 1908.
from the University of Toronto in 1903;
from the University of Wisconsin in 1904 ;
from Clark University in 1905; and from
William and Mary College in 1906.
Loth theoretically and practically,
President Gilman was much inter-
ested in physical, historical and political
science. He published a large number of
reviews, reports and educational papers
appearing from time to time in such peri-
odicals as '"Xorth American Review,"
"Cyclopedia of Political Science," etc. He
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BREWSTER, Chauncey Bunce,
Protestant Episcopal Prelate.
Chauncey Bunce Brewster, a lineal de-
scendant of Elder William Brewster, of
Scrooby, England, the spiritual head of
the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth in
America, was born at Windham, Connec-
ticut, September 5, 1848. He was the son
of Rev. Joseph Brewster, who at the time
of the birth of the son was rector of the