Daniel Coit Gilman

1831 - 1908  (77 years)

• Name	Daniel Coit Gilman
  Birth	6 Jul 1831	Norwich, New London, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Oct 1908	Norwich, New London, Connecticut
  Burial	Norwich, New London, Connecticut
  Person ID	I49792	Scudder
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2013

  
  

  Father	William Charles Gilman,   b. 2 May 1795, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 6 Jun 1863, New York City, New York, New York (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Eliza Coit,   b. 28 Aug 1796, Norwich, New London, Connecticut d. 16 Mar 1868, Norwich, New London, Connecticut (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	2 May 1820
  Family ID	F2248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey,   b. 24 Apr 1838   d. 14 Jan 1910, Connecticut (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	13 Jun 1877
  Family ID	F17932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Van Winkler Ketchum   d. 1869
  Marriage	4 Dec 1861
  Children	1. Alice Gilman,   b. 14 Mar 1863, New Haven, Connecticut d. Apr 1945 (Age 82 years)   2. Elizabeth Dwight Woolsey Gilman,   b. 25 Dec 1867, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticutt d. 14 Dec 1950, Baltimore, Maryland (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F17931	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Daniel was an American educator and academician, who was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College, and who subsequently served as one of the earliest presidents of the University of California (1872-1875), the first president of Johns Hopkins University (1875-1901), and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association, which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. His inauguration as Hopkins president, in which capacity he served for 25 years, is "commonly taken as marking the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S.,"