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During her time at the Rhode Island School of Design, Gilman met Martha Luther in about 1879 [9] and was believed to be in a romantic relationship with Luther. Gilman described the close relationship she had with Luther in her autobiography: We were closely together, increasingly happy together, for four of those long years of girlhood.
Martha Ellis Gellhorn (8 November 1908 – 15 February 1998) [1] was an American novelist, travel writer, and journalist who is considered one of the great war correspondents of the 20th century. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She reported on virtually every major world conflict that took place during her 60-year career.
Willis Luther Moore: 1895 chief of the weather bureau, U.S. Department of Agriculture [1] [186] George W. Morey: geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist [5] Sylvanus Morley: archaeologist [5] Edward Lyman Morris: botanist, curator of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [187] Edward Lind Morse: 1902 artist [1] [188 ...
While John Hartford quickly left the firm, George joined Gilman as a clerk by 1861; he later was promoted to bookkeeper, then cashier in 1866. [1] Gilman was a master at promotion and the business quickly expanded by advertising low prices. In addition to the stores in New York, Gilman also built a nationwide mail order business.
Notable American Women: The Modern Period : a Biographical Dictionary updated the set for subjects who died between 1951 and 1976. The work for the fourth volume was a joint project of Radcliffe College and Harvard University Press funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and edited by Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green.
Ryan Boyle (born 1981), MLL and NLL lacrosse player, graduate of the Gilman School; Cora Belle Brewster (1859 – after 1906), physician, surgeon, medical writer, editor; Flora A. Brewster (1852–1919), Baltimore's first women surgeon; Margaret Sutton Briscoe (1864–1941), American short story writer; Conrad Brooks (1931–2017), B movie actor
In 2012, Gilman—who was the longest-serving member of the Whitney Museum's board of trustees—was honored at a gala for her contributions, which included donations of artwork and more than $5.8 million. [8] In 2015, Gilman founded the Sondra Gilman Study Center, a state-of-the-art storage and research facility at the Whitney Museum.
Minister, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. (transferred to Spelman College) [108] Noun, Louise: 1929 Feminist activist, civil libertarian, author [109] White, George Edward: 1882 American Congregationalist missionary, president of Anatolia College, witness to the Armenian genocide: White-Means, Shelley: 1977