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- Richmond Times Dispatch
October 11, 1917
Charlottesville, VA., Oct. 10 – Frank Gilmer aged sixty years, former Commonwealth attorney, of thios city, died tonight after an illness of several months.
Mr. Gilmer was born on January 29, 1857, at Buckeyeland, this county. He was a great grandson of Dr. George Gilmer, of “Penn Park,” who was family physician to Thomas Jefferson, and had been in possession a ledger showing the account of Thomas Jefferson with his family physician. Dr. Gilmer’s oldest daughter married William Wirt, attorney general of the United States. One of his sons, a great uncle of Frank Gilmer, Francis Walker Gilmer, was the first law professor at the University of Virginia, and was sent abroad by Thomas Jefferson to select the first corps of professors at the university. He died soon after taking the law chair. Governor Thomas Walker Gilmer was Frank Gilmer’s uncle.
Mr. Gilmer was educated in private schools at his birth place, at Major Horace Jones’s School, this city, and at Richmond College. From 1871 o 1872 he was at Hampden-Sidney. He studied at the University of Virginia one session after leaving Hampden-Sidney and took the summer course for one term. In 1881, Mr. Gilmer began the practice of law.
From 1888-1906, Mr. Gilmer was Commonwealth’s attorney for Charlottesville. Mr. Gilmer married on March 17, 1886, Miss Rebecca Singleton Haskell, of Columbia, S.C. She survives with two sons, the eldest of whom, George, has been associated with his father in the practice of law for several years past, under the firm name of Gilmer & Gilmer.
Mr. Gilmer was in charge of the prosecution of ex-Mayor J. Samuel McCue, who was charged with the murder of his wife, Fannie Crawford McCue, on Sunday, September 4, 1904.
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