He was born in 1844. [HVC 1879, 600]
In 1861, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the One Hundred and Third Pennsyl­vania Volunteers and served until July, 1865. He participated in the follow­ing engagements: Yorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Weldon Railroad, Charles City Cross Roads, Harrison Point, Kingston, North Carolina; Goldsboro, North Carolina; Black Water, Virginia; Southwest Creek, Williamstown, North Carolina; Foster's Mills, North Carolina, and Ply­mouth, North Carolina. At the last mentioned battle, April 20, 1864, he was shot in the right hip, the bullet passing through his body. He was taken prisoner and sent to Raleigh, North Carolina, thence to Saulsbury, and afterward to Columbia, South Carolina, and from there to Libby prison, where he was paroled October 22, 1864, after spending six months in South­ern prison pens. At the close of the war he engaged in the milling bus­iness with his brother Alexander, which he continued until 1876, and then located on a farm. Politically he was a Repub­lican, a member of the G. A. R., and with his wife belonged to Amity Pres­byterian church. In 1878 he was elected justice of the peace and filled that office one term. He also held some of the minor offices in his township. [HVC 1890, 955]

Both of his parents died when he was very young; his marriage license lists his surname as Gilmer - confusingly close to Gilmore - but it seems he may have been a foster child in the Gilmer family.

Unk newspaper,
Mrs. Jennie M. Gilmore.
Following an illness of one week from pneumonia, Mrs. Jennie Miranda Gilmore, aged 73 years, wife of W. H. Gilmore, died at her home in Wesley, Sunday morning.
She was the daughter of the late Dr. Nathan Wilson, who had long practiced medicine in Irwin township. Her only survivor is her husband.
Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Nicholson, pastor of the Amity Presbyterian church will officiate. The interment will be in the Amity cemetery.