CLASS OF 1874

Tillotson Wheeler Gilson died April 23. at his home in Winchester, Mass. He had been failing in health for about a year, and had been confined to his bed for several weeks.

Mr. Gilson was the son. of Alfred and Sarah (Gallup) Gilson, and was born in Hartiand, Vt, August 6, 1849. He prepared for college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., and Barre (Vt.) Academy. He took the course of the Chandler Scientific Department, and was a member of the Vitruvian fraternity (now Beta Theta Pi). He had begun teaching before entering college, and continued it after graduation, being 'in the fall of 1874 at Burlington College, Burlington, N. J., and then for over a "year at Selleck's School, Norwalk, Conn. Early in 1876 he went to Stamford, Conn., as assistant to Hiram U. King 73, in his School for Boys. In 1879 he gave up teaching and began the study of medicine at Dartmouth, but was obliged by ill health to give up his studies before the end of the year. In order to follow a more active life until he should be able to resume his medical studies, he took a position with D. Appleton and Company, and for three years was engaged in introducing text-books throughout New England." At the end of that time he '.took the New England agency of J. B. Lippincott and Company, and remained with this firm eleven years. The last eight as general manager of their educational department in Philadelphia. In 1893 he became a member of the firm of Ginn and Company, and took charge of the Philadelphia office. From this he was very soon transferred to Chicago, any was in charge of that branch of the firm s business until about five years ago, when he came to Boston and established his home in Winchester, becoming associated with the editorial branch of the business.

Mr. Gilson was a member of the Woodlawn Golf Club and the Country Club of Lowell, also of the Union League Club of Chicago.

September 5, 1877, he was married to Elizabeth L., daughter of George B. Ferris of Danbury, Conn., who survives him, with their son, Henry Brockway Gilson '00, of Quechee, Vt.