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Quincy A. Gillmore

Civil Engineer/Army Officer

Centurion, 1870–1888

Full Name Quincy Adams Gillmore

Born 28 February 1825 in Lorain, Ohio

Died 11 April 1888 in New York (Brooklyn), New York

Buried United States Military Academy Post Cemetery, West Point, New York

Proposed by David Van Nostrand and John Priestley

Elected 1 October 1870 at age forty-five

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The great services of General Gillmore to his country during the late war, his ability and high rank, gave him a world-wide reputation.

Henry E. Howland
1889 Century Association Reports