Joseph Gilman

Joseph Atherton Gilman was an All-American football player at Harvard University. A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Gilman attended Exeter before enrolling at Harvard. As a freshman, Gilman played on Harvard's freshman football team in 1912, and varsity in 1913. In his third year at Harvard, he was declared ineligible due to poor academic performance. Gilman was the first football player from Hawaii to be named as an All-American. In December 1915, as a reward for his "plucky comeback," In March 1916, after being selected as captain, Gilman was expelled by Harvard's Administrative Board due to poor academic performance. He died in Honolulu in 1983.

Ancestry His grandfather was Henry D Gilman of Connecticut. His grandmother, Sarah Atherton was the sister of Joseph Ballard Atherton, who relocated to Honolulu from Readville, Massachusetts in 1875. His father, Joseph A. Gilman (1864-1936) was a Honolulu shipping and commission merchant who was active in the real estate business in Honolulu, and who died in Berkeley, California.