Hiram S. Gilmore

Hiram Sandford Gilmore (July 22, 1819 - February 11, 1849) was a preacher who established a school for African Americans in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1844 and served as its principal.[1][2][3] Gurdon R. Gilmore, a prominent Cincinnati banker,[4] was his father. Phoebe Sandford Gilmore was his mother.[5]

Gilmore studied at Yale, Wesleyan University in Connecticut until departing his junior year, and Lane Seminary. He was part of the Wesleyan Church and then a Unitarian. He served as business manager of The Herald, a free soil paper, before his death. Maria Gilmore was his wife.[6]

Gilmore founded the Colored High School of Cincinnati in 1844. It provided educational opportunities for African Americans in Cincinnati and produced several notable alumni. It became known as Gilmore High School[7] and attracted African American students from across the United States.[8]

Gilmore penned a subscription letter to fundraise for a Cincinnati farmer who harbored a fugitive slave.[9] Gilmore was an abolitionist.

Students from the school toured with Gilmore and their teachers performing concerts to raise money.[10]

Gilmore met with other communitarian sympathizers and was part of the Cincinnati Brotherhood.[11] He and others purchased land to develop a utopian community but a flood in 1847 caused the collapse of a building being constructed and around 18 deaths. Devastated, Gilmore died two years later.[4] A seance was conducted to communicate with him and receive guidance from him after his death.[11]

References
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  2. Thompson, Eleanor Wolf (April 27, 1947). "Education for Ladies, 1830-1860: Ideas on Education in Magazines for Women". King's Crown Press – via Google Books.
  3. Williams, George Washington (April 27, 1883). "History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: 1800-1880". G.P. Putnam's Sons – via Google Books.
  4. "History of the Schools of Cincinnati: And Other Educational Institutions, Public and Private". The compiler. April 28, 1900 – via Google Books.
  5. of 1841, Yale University Class (April 27, 1892). "Semi-centennial Historical and Biographical Record" – via Google Books.
  6. Conn.), Wesleyan University (Middletown (April 27, 1883). "Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn". Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company – via Google Books.
  7. Payne, Charles M.; Green, Adam (August 27, 2003). Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814767030 – via Google Books.
  8. Tate, G. (June 12, 2019). The Black Urban Community: From Dusk Till Dawn. Springer. ISBN 9781349735723 – via Google Books.
  9. "[Subscription letter for legal defense of John "Vansandt" (Van Zandt), who helped a fugitive slave] | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History". www.gilderlehrman.org.
  10. Robertson, Stacey (November 26, 2013). Betsy Mix Cowles: Champion of Equality. Avalon Publishing. ISBN 9780813347714 – via Google Books.
  11. Hamm, Thomas D. (November 22, 1995). God's Government Begun: The Society for Universal Inquiry and Reform, 1842--1846. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253114713 – via Google Books.
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