Daniel Gilman Biography from History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Surname: GILMAN
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 965

     DANIEL GILMAN, postmaster at Exeter, N. H., to which position he
was appointed in 1912, was born in Exeter August 6, 1851. His parents were
JosephTaylor and Mary E. (Gray) Gilman; the father, a native of this state,
was a son of Col Nathaniel Gilman. He was for a number of years con-
nected with the English firm of Russell & Co., engaged in the Chinese trade,
and had his headquarters in China. He died in 1862. By his wife Mary,
who was a native of Boston, Mass., he was the father of three children-
Daniel; Edward H., who died in 1901, and Mary L. In 1868, six years after
her husband's death, Mrs. Gilman married for her second husband Ex-gover-
nor Charles H. Bell. She survived him some years, dying in 1964.
     Daniel Gilman) our direct subject, was educated in various boarding
schools, at Exeter Academy and at Brown University, Providence, R I. After
completing his studies he went to Chicago, where he found-employment, re-
maining two years. He then bought a farm in Illinois, which he operated
from 1869 until 1883. Returning at the end of that time to Exeter he here
organized the Rubber Step Manufacturing Company, of which he is still
president, William F. Steams being treasurer and manager. His appointment
to the office of postmaster has been already mentioned. He has an assistant
and three clerks under him in the office, besides six carriers and one substi-
tute engaged in the work of delivery. A capable business man, he is serving
with credit to himself and to the general satisfaction of the townspeople.
      Mr. Gilman was married in 1887 to Miss Minnie Crawford, a native of
Tennessee and daughter of Col Robert A. and Lucretia (Remine) Crawford.
They have been the parents of two children-Crawford, who is now deceased,
and Daniel Edward. Mr. Gilman belongs to the Unitarian church, his wife
being an Episcopalian. They are popular members of Exeter society.

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