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Society Publications.
WILSON L. GILL.
Wilson Lindsley Gill younger by one year
than Emilius O.
Randall with whom he was associated in
1866 in the editorship
of Whip-poor-will was born in
Columbus, Ohio, September 12,
1851. His biographer states that he was
a member of the first
kindergarten class in America, taught by
Caroline Louise Frank-
enberg who had been for a number of
years an associate of
Froebel. Mr. Gill was educated in the
schools of Columbus,
at Dartmouth College, Sheffield
Scientific school and was gradu-
ated from the Yale Law School in 1874.
He pursued post grad-
uate studies in social and political
sciences at Yale. He was gen-
eral manager of the Gill Car and Car
Wheel Works of Columbus
from 1874-1884 and was afterwards
engaged in various mer-
cantile and manufacturing enterprises.
He was editor of Our
Country, a patriotic magazine from 1895-19O1. He was pro-
jector and engineer of the tunnel under
42nd Street, New York,
and East River.
After the Spanish-American War he was
general super-
visor of moral and civic training in the
Island of Cuba during
the first American occupation, where he
introduced methods that
had been previously applied in the New
York City public schools.
Later he was United States
supervisor-at-large of Indian schools
in the department of the Interior and
was charged especially to
organize every government Indian school
as a democracy for
moral and civic training. He was
president of the American
Patriotic League and prominently
identified with other patriotic
societies, and was awarded the Elliott
Cresson Gold Medal, by
the Franklin Institute, for originating
the school republic method
of moral and civic training. He was
author of a number of
books, including City Problems;
Gill's System of Moral and
Civic Training; The School Republic;
The Boys' and Girls' Re-
public; Civic Practices for Boys and
Girls; A New Citizenship.