GILBERT
GILBERT
divisions, the division of geologic correlation,
and the geologic branch of the survey. He was
elected a member of the National academy of
sciences in IMS;!; was president of the American
society of naturalists, 18S.") and 1886; vice-presi-
dent of the American association for the advance-
ment of science in
1887, and president of
the Philosophical so-
ciety of Washington
and of the Geological
society of America in
1893; of the Cosmos
club in 1894, and of
the Geological society
of Washington in
1895. He was asso-
ciate editor for the
revision of Johnson's
Cyclopaedia. He re-
ceived from the Uni-
versity of Rochester
the degrees A.M., 1865, and LL.D., 1898. His
writings include several books and numerous
essays relating chiefly to dynamic geology and
physical geograjihy, but treating also of other
geological subjects, of the methods of scientific
research and of irrigation, besides touching on
climatology and astronomy (the geology of the
moon ) .
GILBERT, Grove Sheldon, jjainter, was born in Clinton, N.Y., Aug. 5. ISO."); son of John and Eunice (Barns) Gilbert. His father was a black- smith and manufacturer of axes. He was taken by his parents to Buffalo, N.Y., in 1813 and when that village was burned by the British armj' the same year, the family settled in Le Roj-, N.Y., where Grove was educated at Middlebury acad- emy. He then studied medicine but when twenty years old, determining to become an artist, he studied portrait painting in Philadel- phia, 1826-28. He taught school at Fort Niagara, N.Y., 1829-30, and while there painted portraits. He visited Lewiston, N.Y., Toronto and other Canadian towns, 1830-84, and then established his studio in Rochester, N.Y. , where he devoted the remainder of his life to portrait painting. He was an original abolitionist in western New York when the party was so few in numbers as to require the names of all its adherents to make up a local ticket. He was married, Nov. 30. 1826, to Eliza Stanley; their son, Hiram Roy, born 1828, became secretarj' of the Whitney elevator company, Rochester, N.Y , and another son. Grove Karl, born 1843, geologist of the U.S. coast survey. Mr. Gilbert was made an honorary menilier of the National academy of design in 1848, and of the Albany academy of arts in 1849. He died in Rochester, N.Y., March 23, 1885.
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GILBERT, John Qibbs, actor, was born in
Boston, Mass., Feb. 27, 1810; son of John Neal
and Elizabeth (Atkins) Gilbert; and grandson of
John and Mary (Belknap) Gilbert, and of Gibbs
and Hannah (Newell) Atkins. He attended the
public schools of Boston and in 1824 became a
clerk in the dry-goods
store of his imcle,
Thomas Gibbs Atkins.
He made his profes-
sional debut on Nov.
28, 1828, at the Tre-
mont theatre in his
native city, playing
JafKer in " Venice
Preserved." He next
plaj'ed Sir Edward
Mortimer in '" The
Iron Chest," and
Shylock in " The Mer-
chant of Venice. " In
September, 1828, he
secured an engagement with James H. Caldwell,
manager of the Camp Street theatre. New
Orleans, La., where he appeared as Sir Frederick
Vernon in "Rob Roy," and failed from stage
fright. Shortly afterward he acted as an old
man in " The May Queen." and from that time
played in the southwestern theatres till 1834.
He was engaged at the Tremont theatre, Boston,
1834-39, and there first acted Old Dornton in
"The Road to Ruin." At different times he
was associated with J. B. Booth, Edwin Forrest,
James W. Wallack and Charlotte Cushman. and
for a while was also stage manager. His first
appearance in New York city was on June 13,
1839, at the Bowery theatre, as Sir Edward Mor-
timer. He played in Boston at the Tremont
theatre, 1840-43; at the National theatre, 1843-45;
and was manager of the Federal Street theatre,
1845-47. He then went to London, England,
and played an engagement at the Princess
theatre, appearing first as Sir Robert Bramble in
" The Poor Gentleman " and during the engage-
ment supporting Charlotte Cushman and Mac-
ready. While abroad he studied comedy acting
in London and Paris. In 1848 he played under
the :nanagement of Thomas Hamblin at the Park
theatre. New York city, and after the burning
of that theatre continued with Hamblin's com-
pany at the Bowery theatre, New York city.
Subsequently he was engaged at the Howard
Athenaeum, Boston; at the Chestnut Street
theatre, Philadelphia, 1851-54; and delivered
the opening address for the new Boston theatre
in September, 1854, acting there till 1857. when
he went to Niblo's Garden, New York city,
where he played Dominie Sampson to Charlotte
Cushman's Meg Merrilies. After a short engage-
