(1844-1909), an American editor and poet, born in Bordentown, N. J. He was given a secondary education in his father's seminary at Flushing, Long Island, and studied law in Philadelphia. In an emergency campaign in Pennsylvania during the Civil War, he served as a private. He helped to establish the Newark Register and was afterwards editor of Hours at Home. When this publication was merged into Scribner's Monthly, he became the assistant editor; and when this magazine was in turn changed to the Century, he succeeded J. G. Holland as editor in chief. Mr. Gilder from the first took an active interest in matters of public welfare and became a member of several reform organizations. He wrote a number of poems for the magazines, and some of the best have been collected in Five Books of Song, In Palestine and Poems and Inscriptions.