Dr. Gilman was born in North Platte, Nebraska, in 1878, He spent jeonsiderable time on ranches the vicinity and in doing various odd jobs in the Vacations such as fell to the lot of a healthy, ambitious boy in the Wild West of those days. Though his boyhood dream had been to be a soldier and to go to West Point, he went through the State University of Nebraska. He graduated with Phi Beta" Kappa Fhonours in 1898, felt the call of the Church and went to Philadelphia to the Divinity School, where he graduated in 1901. He was ordained Deacon in 1901 and priest in 1902. For a year after his gradual tion' from the Divinity School was a home missionary in Wyoming and came to China in October 1902, His first few years in China were spent mainly in studying the Chinese language, but in 1904 he conducted regular' services in Kiukiang, in Mandarin, He married in 1965, and was appointed to take charge of the Hankow Out-stations, and of the mission accounts, As a result of a trip to Changsha in 1906 he moved there in 1907. Tu 1910 he was obliged to leave with other foreigners on account of the local riots.
In 1012 he was one of the signatories to the Charter of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, Tt was at that time that he was appointed Editor of the "Chinese Church-moved to Hankow Where he lived until furlough, in 1915.
On his return he wad a teacher at Boone, Wuchang, under Dr. Jackson, and in 1917. became the President of Boone University, In 1918 he received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from his own Divinity School in Philadelphia, He helped organize the Central China University, and last summer was elected Acting-Presiident of the C. C. U, which had its formal opening on "November 1 ast year, In 1922 he was awarded the Third-Class Chinho Decoration by the President of China,
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