| 词条 | Benjamin Ives Gilman (1766) |
| 释义 |
|name=Benjamin Ives Gilman |image=Benjamin Ives Gilman.jpg |office=Delegate to the 1802 Ohio Constitutional Convention from Washington County |term_start=November 1, 1802 |term_end=November 29, 1802 |alongside=Ephraim Cutler John McIntire Rufus Putnam |party= Federalist |birth_date={{birth date|1766|7|29}} |birth_place=Exeter, New Hampshire |death_date={{death date and age|1833|10|13|1766|7|29}} |death_place=Alton, Illinois |restingplace= |spouse=Hannah Robbins |children=Winthrop Sargent Gilman, eight others |alma_mater=Phillips Exeter Academy }} Benjamin Ives Gilman (29 July, 1766 – 13 October, 1833) was a pioneer of the U.S. state of Ohio. He was a shipbuilder on the Ohio River and an extensive landholder. He was a delegate to the convention that wrote a constitution for the new state. YouthGilman was the son of Joseph Gilman and Rebecca (Ives) Gilman, and was born July 29, 1766, at Exeter, New Hampshire.{{sfn|Arthur Gilman|p=121}}{{sfn|Alexander Gillman|p=247}} He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.{{sfn|Phillips Exeter Academy|p=1}} When the Ohio Company of Associates was formed, he purchased one share personally, and two in partnership.{{sfn|Hulbert|p=59}} He moved to Marietta, Northwest Territory, with his parents in 1789.{{sfn|Milligan|p=21}} Life in NorthwestGilman returned to the East, and married Hannah Robbins of Plymouth, Massachusetts, at that place in February 1790,{{sfn|Arthur Gilman|p=121}} and they moved to Marietta. The couple had nine children born between 1790 and 1808, including Winthrop Sargent Gilman.{{sfn|Arthur Gilman|p=166-182}} Gilman opened a store in Fort Harmar in 1792,{{sfn|Hulbert|p=59}} and was clerk of courts for Washington County from 1795 to 1803.{{sfn|Milligan|p=22}} In 1802, Gilman was elected as a Federalist delegate to the convention to write a constitution for the new state of Ohio.{{sfn|Milligan|p=22}} He voted at the convention against slavery{{sfn|Convention|p=111}} and for civil rights and suffrage of black people.{{sfn|Convention|p=116}} In 1801, Gilman began a shipbuilding business. His ships would sail down the Ohio River and Mississippi River, and thence to ports on the Atlantic Ocean. This business thrived until the Embargo Act of 1807 destroyed trade.{{sfn|Alexander Gillman|p=249}} Gilman also had extensive landholdings in Ohio. In 1810, he owned {{convert|22128|acre}}, sixth most in the state.{{sfn|Saltow|p=137}} Return eastThe War of 1812 diminished the value of lands in Ohio, and the ability of buyers and tenants to make payments. In 1813, Gilman moved back east to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.{{sfn|Milligan|p=23}} He was deeply indebted to his relative Nicholas Gilman at the time.{{sfn|Noyes|p=304}} He was a partner in the Philadelphia house of Gilman and Ammidon, and his business was successful there.{{sfn|Alexander Gillman|p=249}}{{sfn|Arthur Gilman|p=124}} Gilman was the only one of 35 delegates to the constitutional convention to return to live in the East.{{sfn|Milligan|p=23}} Two of Gilman's sons lived in Alton, Illinois. He visited there in 1833, and died from a fever at that place on October 13 of that year.{{sfn|Alexander Gillman|p=249}}{{sfn|Arthur Gilman|p=126}} ReferencesNotes
|ref={{sfnRef|Alexander Gillman}} |title=Searches into the history of the Gillman or Gilman family: including the ... |first=Alexander William |last=Gillman |year=1895 |page= |publisher=Elliot Stock |location=London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EDFMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA247 }}
|ref={{sfnRef|Arthur Gilman}} | title=The Gilman family traced in the line of Hon. John Gilman of Exeter, N.H. with an account of many other Gilmans in England and America |first=Arthur |last= Gilman |authorlink=Arthur Gilman (educator) |year=1869 |page= |publisher=J. Munsell |location=Albany |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTJMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA121 }}
|ref={{sfnRef|Phillips Exeter Academy}} |title=General catalogue of officers and students of Phillips Exeter Academy, 1783-1903 |last=Phillips Exeter Academy |authorlink=Phillips Exeter Academy |publisher=The News-Leader Press |location=Exeter NH |year=1903 |page= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6UZAAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=ives }}
|title=The Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company |editor1-last=Hulbert |editor1-first=Archer Butler |editor1link=Archer Butler Hulbert |ref={{sfnRef|Hulbert}} |series=Marietta College Historical Collections |volume=2 |year=1917 |publisher=Marietta Historical Commission |page= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cCAmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA59 }}
|ref={{sfnRef|Milligan}} |title=Ohio's Founding Fathers |first=Fred J. |last=Milligan |year=2003 | pages=21–23 |publisher= iUniverse |location=Lincoln, Nebraska |isbn=0595750397 |oclc=53472872 }}
|title=A family history in letters and documents, 1667-1837: concerning the forefathers of Winthrop Sargent Gilman and his wife Abia Swift Lippincott |volume=1 |first=Mrs. Charles P |last=Noyes |ref={{sfnRef|Noyes}} |publisher=privately printed |location=St Paul, Minn |year=1919 |url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=jDFMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA304 }}
| ref ={{sfnRef|Convention}} | last1= | first1= | year=1896 | title = First Constitutional Convention, Convened November 1, 1802 | journal=Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications | volume=V | pages=80–132 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA80 }}
| ref ={{sfnRef|Saltow}} | last1= Saltow | first1= Lee | year= | title = Inequality Amidst Abundance: Land Ownership in Early Nineteenth Century Ohio | journal=Ohio History | volume=88 | pages=133–151 |url=http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohj/browse/volumeresult.php?vol=88 }}{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilman, Benjamin Ives}} 10 : Ohio Constitutional Convention (1802)|Phillips Exeter Academy alumni|People from Exeter, New Hampshire|1766 births|1833 deaths|Politicians from Marietta, Ohio|Ohio Federalists|Politicians from Philadelphia|American shipbuilders|Gilman family of New Hampshire |
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