Born: September 28, 1889, Watertown, Massachusetts.
Died: July 1964, Weekapaug, Rhode Island.
Buried: Springfield Cemetery, Springfield, Massachusetts.
James was the son of James Henry Gilkey and Mary Lotte Johnson, and husband of Calma Wright Howe.
He graduated from Harvard College (1912) and Union Theological Seminary, New York City.
He was a teacher and chaplain at Amherst College, then, starting in 1917, was pastor of the South Congregational Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, retiring in 1954.
In 1926, he was the commencement speaker at the University of Connecticut.
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