Gilman. I. Samuel, an American clergyman, born in Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 16, 1791, died in Kingston, Mass., Feb. 9, 1858. He graduated at Harvard college in 1811, studied theology, and was tutor in mathematics at Cambridge from 1817 to 1819, when he married Miss Caroline Howard, and was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Charleston, S. C, in which office he remained till his death. He contributed many papers to reviews and other periodicals, on subjects connected with philosophy and general literature, and in 1856 published in Boston a volume of Contributions to Literature, Descriptive, Critical, and Humorous, Biographical, Philosophical, and Poetical." His other prose works are the "Memoirs of a New England Village Choir" (1829), of which three editions were issued, and the Pleasures and Pains of a Student's Life (1852). He translated the satires of Boileau, and published some original poems, among which are the "History of a Ray of Light," and a poem read before the Phi Beta Kappa society of Harvard college.

In Charleston he took a prominent part in promoting the temperance cause, as well as the interests of literature.

II. Caroline, an American authoress, wife of the preceding, born in Boston, Oct. 8, 1794. She is a daughter of Samuel Howard of Boston. At the age of 16 she wrote a poem entitled "Jephthah's Rash Vow," and soon after another on "Jairus's Daughter," which was published in the "North American Review." In 1819 she married the Rev. Samuel Oilman, and removed with him to Charleston, S. C. She has published Recollections of a New England Housekeeper," Recollections of a Southern Matron,"Ruth Raymond, or Love's Progress,"Poetry of Travelling in the United States," Verses of a Lifetime," Mrs. Gil-man's Gift Book," Oracles from the Poets (1854),The Sibyl, or New Oracles from the Poets (1854), and Stories and Poems by a Mother and Daughter (1872). Since the civil war she has resided in Cambridge, Mass.