Joseph Taylor Gilman (October 4, 1883World War I draft registration card for Joseph Taylor Gilman, born October 4, 1883, living in W. Newton, Mass., employed as store manager at Filene's in Boston. Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 atabase on-line – September 15, 1933) was an

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player. He played college football at

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and was a consensus selection at the

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position on the 1904 College Football All-America Team. Gilman was born in

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, in 1883. He attended preparatory school at

Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school and educates an es ...

before enrolling at

. While at Dartmouth, he played for the

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team and was a consensus first-team selection for the 1904 College Football All-America Team. After graduating from Dartmouth, Gilman was the manager of

Filene's Department Store Filene's Department Store is a former department store building in the Downtown Crossing shopping district in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Abraham Lincoln Filene and Edward Filene, and opened in ...

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. He later became president and general manager of the

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. He was also president of the Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Corporation. He was married and had two daughters. In 1933, he underwent an operation at the Newton Hospital and died the following week at the age of 50. He was buried at Exeter, New Hampshire.

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