Theodore P. Gilman

Theodore P. Gilman

Theodore P. Gilman (b. January 2, 1841 Alton, Madison County, Illinois) was an American banker and politician. Died, 1930.

Life

He was the son of Winthrop Sargent Gilman and Abia Swift Lippincott Gilman. He graduated from Williams College in 1862, and graduated A.M. in 1865. He married Elizabeth Drinker Paxson (ca. 1843-1912), and their son was Theodore P. Gilman, Jr. (b. 1873).

Gilman entered a banking career, and in the 1870's was involved in financing midwestern railroads; notably, the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific RR. Later, in the 1880's and 1890's he worked to extend this railroad to become the Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City RR. He became active in efforts by Kansas City entreprenuer Arthur Stilwell, Chairman of the Kansas City, Pittsburgh & Gulf RR (now known as Kansas City Southern) to finance the so-called "northern properties". This resulted in the interconnection of Kansas City, Omaha & Quincy, IL by rail. Gilman left the Board of Directors when he got into a disagreement with Stilwell (1897) over construction of certain railroad branch lines. Gilman City, MO is a town named after Gilman, and was located as a real estate venture on the QOKC Railroad.

In 1894, he was arrested on a charge of fraud by selling stock of the Port Jervis Brewery of which he had been President, but was then already insolvent and in receivership. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=980CE1DF1231E033A25752C1A9679D94659ED7CF] in NYT on November 11,1894]

Gilman returned to New York from the Midwest and focused on his banking interests. In 1898, he published "A Graded Banking System" (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin).

He was First Deputy Comptroller under William J. Morgan after whose death he was appointed New York State Comptroller to fill Morgan's unexpired term. Afterwards he was re-appointed First Deputy Comptroller, and resigned the post on January 15, 1903, to become president of the General Electric Inspection Company, [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05E6D91030E733A25755C1A9679C946297D6CF] in NYT on January 16, 1903] and was succeeded as First Deputy by Otto Kelsey.

In 1904, he published a 17-page article "The Clearing-House System" in "The Journal of Political Economy" (Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 208-224, March 1904).

He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. Benjamin Ives Gilman was his brother. Theodore Gilman died in 1930 at the age of eighty-nine.

Notes

ources

* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9B0CE5DF1038E033A25756C0A9669D94659FD7CF] His father's obit, in NYT on October 5, 1884
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nywestch/sar/member-G.htm#gilman1] Membership roll in the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, at rootsweb
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D05EEDE1F39E433A25752C3A9649D94699ED7CF] His appointment as First Deputy, in NYT on December 31, 1898
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9402E6DA1F39E733A2575AC2A9649D946397D6CF] Speculation about his imminent resignation, in NYT on December 29, 1902
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9D07E4DB163AE733A25753C3A9649D946397D6CF] Denial in NYT on December 30, 1902
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=940CE2DF1339E333A25750C1A9679C946297D6CF] The speculation continues, in NYT on January 13, 1903
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9802E4D7133CE633A25753C2A9679D946396D6CF] His wife's death notice, in NYT on November 20, 1912
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gilmann-gilmer.html] Political Graveyard (name misspelled)

Book Sources: Loren Reid, "Hurry Home Wednesday", Columbia, MO. , University of Missouri Press, 1978.pp. 4-21.

Michael R. Johns with Ralph L. Cooper, "Quincy Route- A History of the QOKC Railroad", Burlington, Iowa, South Platte Press, 2008, Chapters 1-4.


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