Contributions to Literature; Descriptive, Critical, Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical, and Poetical
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Pleasures and Pains of the Student's Life. Two Poems, One Delivered in 1811, at the Commencement in Harvard College, Cambridge; And the Other, a Seque
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Revealed Religion. a Dudleian Lecture Delivered in the Chapel of the University at Cambridge, Wednesday, May 10, 1848
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Memoirs Of A New England Village Choir. With Occasional Reflections
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Samuel Gilman was an American clergyman and author. He was an active advocate of the temperance cause.
Background
Samuel Gilman was born on February 16, 1791, in Gloucester, Massachusets. He was the son of Frederick Gilman, a native of Exeter, New Hampshire, and of Abigail Hillier (Somes) of Gloucester.
His father had been a prosperous merchant but suffered severe losses in 1798 from the capture of his vessels by the French and died a few years thereafter.
When, shortly after her husband’s death, Mrs. Gilman removed to Salem, she entered her young son in a little academy kept by the Rev. Stephen Peabody at Atkinson, New Hampshire.
Education
Entering Harvard in the fall of 1807, Gilman graduated in 1811.
Career
Gilman was engaged for several months as clerk in a Boston bank.
In November 1811, he returned to Harvard as a resident graduate, and after a year of study there taught school in Boston until 1817, and then acted as tutor in mathematics at Harvard until 1819.
His heart was set on the ministry, however, and after some experience preaching as a candidate, on December 1, 1819, he was ordained minister of the Second Independent Church of Charleston, South Carolina, which, under Gilman’s predecessor, the Rev. Anthony Forster, had just embraced Unitarianism.
Gilman’s poetical ability had for some time been recognized. He had composed the class poem at his graduation, had published Monody on the Victims and Sufferers by the Late Conflagration in the City of Richmond, Virginia (1812), was engaged in translating Florian’s Galatea in 1815, and in 1817 contributed unsigned translations in verse of satires from Boileau to the North American Review.
He continued his literary work in connection with his parish duties and conscientiously did five or six hours of reading or writing every day. His writing included prose as well as poetry, and his reading, which comprised both English and German works, was extensive in the fields of theology, history, and literature.
What he considered the best of his publications he collected in Contributions to Literature (1856), which included Memoirs of a New England Village Choir (1829), “Ode on the Death of Calhoun, ” said to have been sung at Calhoun’s funeral, the reminiscences of Rev. Stephen Peabody and his wife, and other pieces in prose and poetry.
Every two or three years they returned for a visit to New England, and it was on one of these trips that his most famous poem, “Fair Harvard, ” was written at a few hours’ notice for the 200th anniversary of that college held on September 8, 1836.
For sixteen years, he was chaplain of the Washington Light Infantry of Charleston. His death came unexpectedly at Kingston, Massachusets, while he was visiting his son- in-law, the Rev. C. J. Bowen, and he was buried in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Views
Quotations:
"His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!"
Personality
As a preacher, Gilman was kindly and persuasive but not particularly striking or original. Though singularly guileless and childlike, he was a man of strong character, a sturdy advocate of temperance, yet so genial and lovable that he was held in unusual affection by a host of friends both within and without his parish.
Connections
In December 1819, Gilman married Caroline (Howard) Gilman, daughter of Samuel and Anna Howard, of Boston.