The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t to Ballston Spa as principalof an academy. He also preached at Malta, Sara-toga county, for two years, when a throat difficultyobliged him to desist. Twice his schools were burne
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . t to Ballston Spa as principalof an academy. He also preached at Malta, Sara-toga county, for two years, when a throat difficultyobliged him to desist. Twice his schools were burnedby the carelessness of students. From Ballston Spahe went, in 1865, to Brooklyn, N. Y., and engagedin the lumber business, thinking the necessary exer-cise there might benefit his failing health. The nextchange was to Fulton, in 1869, where he becamethe head of Falley seminary, remaining principal ofthis institution until compelled to cease his laborson account of illness. Mr. Gilmour was a man ofhigh attainments and a fine linguist. In France andItaly he learned the French and Italian was thoroughly conversant with German andLatin, and during his several trips abroad, studiedthe people, their institutions and the customs of theirrespective countries. His life was one of great in-fluence, and devoted to doing good; his character,firmness itself. He died Dec. 18,1885, at his homein Fulton, N. 254 THE NATIONAL CYOLOPyEDIA HUNT, Thomas Sterry, chemist, geologist,and mineralogist, was born at Norwich, Conn., , 1826. He came of an old New England family,that early in 1635 settled in Massachusetts. Aftercompleting his rudimentary education in the schoolsof Norwich, he began the study of medicine, but hislove for chemistry so far superseded his taste foranatomy that ho soon gave up the idea of being aphysician, and early began to devote himself to scien-tific pursuits, and began the study of chemistry andmineralogy as a private student of Prof. BenjaminSillima
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