Eighth Generation2948. Gilman Nathaniel FOLSOM737,1267,1268,1269 was born on 15 August 1830 in East Corinth, Penobscot, Maine.737 He died on 3 June 1917 at the age of 86 in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada.737 He was buried in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada.737 Gilman was a Lumberman.737 Gilman and Priscilla Folsom, according to his memoirs came to the Pacific coast in 1856, arriving in Calaveras County, California 1857, where he enters the employee of a lumberman William Dennis, as a blacksmith. He shoed horses, built and repaired wagons in kept the sawmill and repair. After spending five months and sent to Cisco or he received treatment at "Dr. Bourn's Electrical-Chemical Water Cure" establishment, he moved to Nevada where in the spring of 1860 he started a dairy and hotel, 25 miles west Jenny Lind. The following year, he and James Norcross operated a ranch in a sawmill. Gilman Folsom had an active political life in Nevada serving 1864, on the Constitutional Convention for the state of Nevada; assemblyman from Washoe Co., 1867, assemblyman from Ormsby Co., 1885; senator from Douglas Co., 1891, 1893. He also served as Justice of Peace in Carson City, 1905 and 1915. He ended up in Nevada. Gilman Nathaniel FOLSOM and Priscilla TIBBETS were married on 9 January 1855.737,1250,1268 Priscilla TIBBETS737,1250,1268 was born on 30 June 1829 in Charleston, Penobscot, Maine.737 She died on 6 May 1916 at the age of 86 in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada.737 Gilman Nathaniel FOLSOM-55179 and Priscilla TIBBETS-55182 had the following children:
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