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– November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor. Gilder was born on

February 8, 1844 at Bordentown, New Jersey. He

was the son of Jane (Nutt) Gilder and the Rev. William Henry Gilder,

and educated at his father's seminary in Flushing, Queens. There he learned to set type and published

the St. Thomas Register. Gilder later studied law at Philadelphia. During the American Civil War, he

enlisted in the state's Emergency Volunteer Militia as a private in Landis' Philadelphia Battery at the time of the Robert E. Lee's 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania.

After the Confederates were

defeated in the Battle of Gettysburg,

Gilder and his unit were mustered out in August. The death of his father, while

serving as chaplain of the Fortieth New York Volunteers, obliged him to give up

the study of the law.

A little later, he became a reporter on the Newark (New Jersey) Advertiser,

of which he was later editor. With Newton Crane,

he founded the Newark Register. In 1870, he became editor of Hours

at Home, a monthly magazine published by Scribner's. It merged with Scribner's Monthly,

which was edited by J. G. Holland. Gilder

became managing editor. When Holland died in 1881, Gilder became editor. In

November 1881, the monthly was renamed as The Century Magazine,

and Gilder remained its editor until his death. Gilder's assistant editor

at Century was Sophia Bledsoe Herrick.

Gilder took an active interest in all public affairs, especially those

which tend towards reform and good government, and was a member of many New

York clubs. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Architects, of the Authors' Club, and of the International Copyright League. He was a founder of the Anti-Spoils

League and a member of the American

Academy of Arts and Letters. He was a close friend of George MacDonald, Scottish poet, author, and preacher. They

collaborated in various ventures such as MacDonald's American lecture tour in

the 1870s. Gilder received the degree of LL.D. from Dickinson College in 1883. Gilder was a member of

the Simplified Spelling Board.

He was a leader in the organization of the Citizens' Union, a founder and the

first president of the Kindergarten Association, and of the New York Association for

the Blind. Gilder was chairman of the first Tenement House

Commission in New York City. During his

service on the commission, he arranged to be called whenever there was a fire

in a tenement house, and at all hours of the night he risked his health and his

life itself to see the perils besetting the dwellers of the tenements, in order