Editing Gilmanton, New Hampshire (section)

== Notable people ==
[[File:Gilmanton Academy Gilmanton New Hampshire.jpeg|thumb|right|400px|Gilmanton Academy {{circa|1869}}]]
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* [[John B. Bachelder]] (1825–1894), painter, photographer, historian<ref>{{cite book|last1=Metcalf |first1=Henry Harrison |last2=McClintock |first2=John Norris|title=The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History ..., Volume 47|year=1915|publisher=H.H. Metcalf|page=447|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prEVAAAAYAAJ&q=John+B.+Bachelder+gilmanton+nh&pg=PA447}}</ref> 
* [[William Badger]] (1779–1852), mill owner, 15th governor of New Hampshire<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_new_hampshire/col2-content/main-content-list/title_badger_william.html|title=New Hampshire Governor William Badger|publisher=National Governors Association|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Curtis Coe Bean]] (1828–1904), politician<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000278|title=BEAN, Curtis Coe, (1828 - 1904)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Rudi Blesh]] (1899–1985), jazz critic and enthusiast<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-31-fi-24324-story.html|title=Jazz Scholar Rudi Blesh; Historian, Biographer, Criticpublisher=Los Angeles Times|access-date= December 5, 2013 | date=August 31, 1985}}</ref>
* [[John C. Chase]] (1870–1937), shoe worker, politician<ref>Marquis, Albert Nelson. ''The book of Chicagoans a biographical dictionary of leading living men of the city of Chicago''. Chicago: A.N. Marquis & Co., 1911. 132. Print.
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* <!-- Needs Wikipedia article to remain in list -->[[Nancy Childress]], author and lawyer; model for ''[[Dick and Jane]]'' books <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessnhmagazine.com/article/from-teacher-to-attorneyampcomma-inventor-and-author|title=From Teacher to Attorney, Inventor and Author| work=Business NH| date=September 6, 2023| access-date=February 28, 2025}}</ref>
* [[David Cote (writer)|David Cote]] (born 1969), author, New York theater critic raised in Gilmanton<ref>{{cite web|url=http://histriomastix.typepad.com/about.html|title=David Cote|website=histriomastix.typepad.com|access-date=April 21, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Ira Allen Eastman]] (1809–1881), U.S. congressman<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000020|title=EASTMAN, Ira Allen, (1809 - 1881)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Nehemiah Eastman]] (1782–1856), U.S. congressman<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000021|title=EASTMAN, Nehemiah, (1782 - 1856)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[George G. Fogg]] (1813–1881), U.S. senator, diplomat; began his legal practice in Gilmanton Iron Works<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000234|title=FOGG, George Gilman - Biographical Information|website=bioguide.congress.gov|access-date=April 21, 2018}}</ref>
* [[John R. French]] (1819–1890), U.S. congressman<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000378|title=FRENCH, John Robert, (1819 - 1890)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Charles A. Gilman]] (1833–1927), 9th lieutenant governor of Minnesota<ref>{{cite web|url= http://collections.mnhs.org/governors/index.php/10004258|title=Charles Andrew Gilman|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[H. H. Holmes]] (1861–1896), serial killer<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.biography.com/people/hh-holmes-307622|title=H. H. Holmes|publisher= A+E Television Networks, LLC.|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Dudley Leavitt (publisher)|Dudley Leavitt]] (1772–1851), author, publisher; lived in Gilmanton while founding the ''Gilmanton Gazette'' and an almanac,<ref>Cornelius, Elias. ''The American quarterly register'' Vol. 13, Boston 1841. 176. Print.</ref> and was a selectman<ref>Lancaster, Daniel. ''The history of Gilmanton, embracing the proprietary, civil, literary, ecclesiastical, biographical, genealogical, and miscellaneous history, from the first settlement to the present time; including what is now Gilford, to the time it was disannexed''. Gilmanton N.H.: Printed by A. Prescott, 1845. 140, 142. Print.</ref>
* [[Grace Metalious]] (1924–1964), author of [[Peyton Place (novel)|''Peyton Place'']]<ref>Toth, Emily. ''Inside Peyton Place''. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. Print.</ref>
* [[Charles H. Peaslee]] (1804–1866), U.S. congressman<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000173|title=PEASLEE, Charles Hazen, (1804 - 1866)|dictionary=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[William Prescott (physician)|William Prescott]] (1788–1875), physician, politician, naturalist<ref>Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske. ''Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography'',. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900. Print.</ref>
* [[Edwin David Sanborn]] (1808–1885), educator<ref>{{cite book|title=The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, Volume 16|year=1894|publisher=Granite Monthly Co|page=131|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t5UbAQAAMAAJ&q=Edwin+David+Sanborn++gilmanton+nh&pg=PA131}}</ref> 
* [[John Sewell Sanborn]] (1819–1877), educator, judge, Canadian politician<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=5251|title=SANBORN, JOHN SEWELL|publisher= University of Toronto|access-date= December 5, 2013}}</ref>
* [[David Sellin]] (1930–2006), art historian, curator of the [[United States Capitol]]
* [[Thorsten Sellin]] (1896–1994), sociologist, criminologist; died in Gilmanton<ref>Charlesworth, James C. (1969) "The Academy Dips Its Colors to Dr. Sellin," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 381: pp. iii–iv.</ref>
* [[Ainsworth Rand Spofford]] (1825–1908), journalist, publisher; sixth [[Librarian of Congress]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Rossiter |last2=Brown |first2=John Howard |title=The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans|year=1904|publisher=Biographical Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_e0UAAAAYAAJ&q=Ainsworth+Rand+Spofford++gilmanton+nh&pg=PT472}}</ref> 
* [[Henry M. Spofford]] (1821–1880), judge<ref>{{cite book|last=Hardy|first=Stella Pickett|title=Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families who Settled in the Colonies Prior to the Revolution|year=1911|publisher=T.A. Wright|page=368|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e1VlAAAAMAAJ&q=Henry+M.+Spofford++gilmanton+nh&pg=PA368}}</ref>
* [[Nathaniel Upham]] (1774–1829), politician, educator; married Judith Cogswell of Gilmanton and lived in town briefly<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andoverhistorical.org/manuscripts/manuscripts-mss697.htm|title=Home|website=www.andoverhistorical.org|access-date=April 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131210214624/http://www.andoverhistorical.org/manuscripts/manuscripts-mss697.htm|archive-date=December 10, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref>