Background
Gilder, Joseph B. was born on June 29, 1858 in St. Thomas’s Hall (woman’s college, conducted by father), Flushing, New York, United States. Son of late Review William H. and Jane (Nutt) G.
Gilder, Joseph B. was born on June 29, 1858 in St. Thomas’s Hall (woman’s college, conducted by father), Flushing, New York, United States. Son of late Review William H. and Jane (Nutt) G.
Brother of Jeannette Leonard, Robert Fletcher and Richard Watson Gilder. Entered the United States Naval Academy, 1872, resigned, 1874.
Reporter, Newark, New Jersey, 1874-1877. Wrote New York letters to Boston Advertiser, Buffalo Courier, etc. Reporter and assistant city editor New York Herald, 1877-1880.
With sister Jeannette L., started The Critic (later Putnam’s Magazine), January 1881. (co-editor, 28 years). President The Critic Company, 1893-1901.
Treasurer American Copyright League, 1886. An organizer and 1st secretary of University Settlement Society of New York. Literature adviser to The Century Company, 1895-1902.
United States Government despatch agent at London, 1902-1904. Editor New York Times Review of Books, 1910-1911. In banking business, 1911-1914.
Secretary Industrial Finance Corporation, 1914-1929, Morris Plan Insurance Society, 1917-1929. Travel in Europe, 1928-1935. Editor: J. R. Lowell’s Impressions of Spain, 1899.
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth, 1900. The American Idea, 1902. Addresses of John Hay, 1906.
Also (with Jeannette L. Gilder), Essays from The Critic, 1882. Authors at Home, 1889. Home: New York, New York.
Clubs: Wliitefriars; Century, New York.
Married May 7, 1892.