Gilbert Pillsbury | |
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42nd Mayor of Charleston | |
In office May 1869 –1871 | |
Preceded by | George Washington Clark |
Succeeded by | Johann Andreas Wagener |
Personal details | |
Born | February 23,1813 [1] Henniker,New Hampshire |
Died | January 4,1893 79) Boston,Massachusetts | (aged
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Ann Frances Ray |
Alma mater | Dartmouth (1841) |
Profession | teacher |
Gilbert Pillsbury (1813-1893) was the Reconstruction mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,and he served one term from 1868 to 1871. He ran against William Patton [2] and Chancellor Lesesne. [3] Due to election challenges,he was installed as mayor only in May 1869. [4] He was again nominated for a second term in 1871, [5] but lost to Johann Andreas Wagener. [6]
Pillsbury attended Phillips Academy but did not graduate. He argued that the school's "vigorous pro-slavery restrictions" forced him to leave after he helped found an Abolitionist Society on campus. He joined over fifty students in advocating for abolition following lectures in 1834 by George Thompson (abolitionist) and William Lloyd Garrison on campus. [7] [8] He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1841 and served in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1854. [9]
Pillsbury was an abolitionist who,during the Civil War,headed to the South as an agent of the Freedman's Bureau. He was originally stationed in Hilton Head Island,South Carolina before moving to Charleston,South Carolina with his wife in October 1865. [10] In Charleston,he worked to educate freed slaves and was placed in charge of abandoned property. In 1870,Pillsbury lived at 9 George St. (today a parking lot across from the Spoleto Festival USA Headquarters),and from 1872 to his death on January 4,1893,he lived in Massachusetts. [11]
Sir George Gilbert Scott,largely known as Sir Gilbert Scott,was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect,chiefly associated with the design,building and renovation of churches and cathedrals,although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses. Over 800 buildings were designed or altered by him.
De Bow's Review was a widely-circulated magazine of "agricultural,commercial,and industrial progress and resource" in the American South during the mid-19th century,from 1846 to 1884. Before the Civil War,the magazine "recommended the best practices for wringing profits from slaves." It bore the name of its first editor,James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow,who wrote much of the early issues,but there were various writers over the years. R. G. Barnwell and Edwin Q. Bell,of Charleston,appeared as editors in March 1867,after DeBow's death,and W. M. Burwell was editor from March 1868 to December 1879.
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