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Gilman (DANIEL COIT an American)

DANIEL COIT, an American educator; born in Norwich, Conn., July 6, 1831; was graduated at Yale College in 1852; Professor of Physical and Political Geography in Yale in 1856- 1872; president of the University of California in 1872-1875. When Johns Hopkins University was founded in Baltimore, Md., in 1875, he was elected its first president and served in that capacity till 1901, when he resigned and became editor-in-chief of the revised edition of the "International Cyclopædia." In 1896-1897 he was a member of the commission to settle the boundary line between Venezula and British Guiana. His publications include "Life of James Monroe"; "University Problems"; "Introduction" to DeTocqueville's Democracy in America," etc. In 1901 Gilman was elected president of the Carnegie Institute at Washington. He died on Oct. 18, 1908.