Henry Gillman
1833–1915
Irish-born American naturalist. Emigrated to the United States, settling in Detroit, Michigan, in 1850. Assistant, US Geodetic Survey of the Great Lakes. Led topographic and hydrographic expeditions, 1851–69. Assistant superintendent of construction, tenth and eleventh lighthouse districts, Northern Lakes, 1870–6. Librarian, Detroit Public Library, 1880–5. US consul to Jerusalem, 1886. Wrote on indigenous grave-mounds of the United States.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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