University of Virginia Library

FRANK GILMER

Is a native Virginian, his ancestry settling in Virginia before the Revolutionary
war. His father, Geo. C. Gilmer, who died in September, 1884,
was a son of George Gilmer of Albemarle, and he was a son of Dr.
George Gilmer of the same county, who served as a lieutenant in the
war for Independence in 1776, his father coming from Scotland in 1672
and settling in Williamsburg, Virginia, from whom has sprung the
Virginia Gilmers. Mr. Gilmer's mother was Mildred W. Duke, a daughter
of Richard Duke, father of R. W. Duke. On the 17th of March,
1886, Mr. Gilmer was united in marriage to Decca S. Haskell, daughter
of Judge A. C. Haskell of Columbia, South Carolina, and there is
one son by the union, George. Her mother's maiden name was Rebecca
Singleton. Mr. Gilmer received his education at Hamden City,
Richmond College, and University of Virginia, studied law under John
B. Minor and Stephen O. Southall, and was admitted to the bar in
1884, and entered upon the practice of law in Albemarle county; has
been Commonwealth's attorney for the city of Charlottsville since
December, 1888, and is also a notary public. He held a clerkship in

---

852