Alfred Alonzo Gilman

Education

He studied for ordination to the priesthood at Philadelphia Divinity School, graduating in 1901.

Career

He arrived in China as a missionary in 1902, and was bishop of Missionary District of Hankow in the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui. In 1917 he became president of Boone University in Wuchang. Gilman married Gertrude Carter at Saint Paul"s Church, Hankow, China, on February 22, 1905.

After consecration as suffragan bishop of Hankow on March 4, 1925, he succeeded Logan Herbert Roots and was installed as third Missionary Bishop of Hankow on April 12, 1938.

Logan Herbert Roots

Frederick Rogers Graves

Daniel T. Huntington.

Membership

He was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

Connections

Father:

Platt Jewel Gilman

Mother:

Mary Eddy (Hubbard) Gilman

Spouse:

Gertrude Carter

child:

Frederick Carter Gilman

child:

John Platt Gilman (deceased)

child:

Edward Hubbard Platt Gilman

child:

Louise Frances Gilman