Hiram Sandford Gilmore (July 22, 1819 - February 11, 1849) was a preacher who established a school for African Americans in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1844 and served as its principal.
[5] Gilmore studied at Yale, Wesleyan University in Connecticut until departing his junior year, and Lane Seminary.
It became known as Gilmore High School[7] and attracted African American students from across the United States.
[8] Gilmore penned a subscription letter to fundraise for a Cincinnati farmer who harbored a fugitive slave.
[11] He and others purchased land to develop a utopian community but a flood in 1847 caused the collapse of a building being constructed and around 18 deaths.