GILMAN BROS. Fred D. and Daniel T. GILMAN are good types of the Vermont farm-bred business man. As wholesale and retail dealers in team horses and hay they fill an important sphere of usefulness, and fill it well. 

The bike has had its day,
The horse is here to stay,
And Gilmans sell the hay.

      They remained on the paternal farm in Barnet until 1891, when they sold it and removed to St. Johnsbury and soon after bought the livery stable near Miller and Ryan's factory, conducted the same for one year, more than doubling the business and the stock, when they sold the stock to Ellery CLARK. Since then they have been largely and increasingly engaged in the sale of team horses and hay. They buy horses by the carload, largely in Missouri and Iowa, and sell to the farmers and business men of this section. GILMAN Bros. are recognized as good judges and care-takers of horses. The public have learned to depend on their judgment and fairness, and they now handle from 300 to 500 horses annually, many being bartered for smaller horses and other farm stock. In 1901 they built a new stable, 45 by 90 feet, with entire basement, which gives them ample facilities for their horses and cattle. The same year they bought their present residence. They own forty acres of land in or near this village, forty near Passumpsic, and several hundred in North Danville, and last year cut about 150 tons of hay. They are wholesale and retail dealers in hay and straw, baled and loose. 

      F.D. GILMAN married Sadie ROBERTS of Danville and they have one son, Paul W. 

      Mrs. Daniel T. GILMAN was formerly Nellie HOYT of Wheelock, and the little daughter is Aline. 
 
 
 

Source:  Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical Publishing Company, 1904, page 31. 

Prepared by Tom Dunn January 2003