Calvin Bernard Gilman

Dr. Calvin Bernard Gilman (b. 1795, d. 1874)

Calvin, known as C.B. to his friends, married Virginia Martin in 1818.

C.B. became a father at the age of 26. His eldest son, Lionel Gilman was born in 1819 while the Gilmans lived in New Haven, CT. After their daughter, name unknown, passed in 1830, their son Tobias Gilman was born in 1838.

After his wife Virginia's death in 1842, he married housekeeper Dorothy Meyer.

C.B. and Dorothy had a child, Dewey, in 1845. He would pass in 1858, reportedly from drowning.

In the early 1870s, C.B. would admit to his sons that Lionel was conceived out of wedlock, which would stay secret to the general public until after Lionel's death when Lionel's headstone was produced. Lionel's proper birthdate, January 12th, was previously believed to be in March.

In 1860, C.B. suffered a stroke which left him bedridden.

He died in 1864 at the age of 74 after an infection.

Dorothy Meyer's time of death is not presently known.