Joseph Benson Gilder

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Joseph Benson Gilder (29 June 1858 – 1936) was an American editor, brother of Richard Watson Gilder and Jeannette Leonard Gilder and the explorer William Henry Gilder.

Biography

Gilde was the son of the clergyman William Henry Gilder. He was born in Flushing, New York, studied two years in the United States Naval Academy, and for some time was engaged in newspaper work in Newark, N. J. and New York City.^{[citation needed]} In 1881, with his sister, he founded The Critic, of which he was coeditor^[1] until 1906 when publication of The Critic ended.

Gilder was literary advisor to the Century Company (1895–1902); helped organize the University Settlement House of New York; in 1902–04 was United States dispatch agent at London; and in 1910–11 was editor of the New York Times "Review of Books".^[1]

He edited:^[1]

James Russell Lowell's Impressions of Spain (1899)
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1900)
The American Idea (1902)
Addresses of John Hay (1906)
Essays from the Critic (1882) (with his sister)
Authors at Home (1889)

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rines 1920.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Gilder, Joseph Benson". Encyclopedia Americana.

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Name	Gilder, Joseph Benson
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Short description	United States editor and journalist
Date of birth	29 June 1858
Place of birth	Flushing, New York
Date of death	1936
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