OBITUARY, HARVEY, ILLINOIS, Friday, January 11, 1935:
EDWIN S. GAMBLE DIES SUDDENLY IN CALIFORNIA
Edwin Smith Gamble, a pioneer resident of Harvey who was prominently
associated with the lumber and building material industry in this section
of the county, died at his home at Pasadena, Calif., near midnight on
Tuesday.  His death was unexpected and friends here were shocked at the
news of his passing.

Mr. Gamble, at the time of his death was chairman of the board of the
Chicago and Riverdale Lumber company, of which he was an organizer.
He had been living in California since around 1928, when he retired from
the presidency of the lumber company.

No word has been received by friends here as to the plans for the funeral,
but it is stated that it will be held at Pasadena.

Mr. Gamble was 66 years of age and born in the Monmouth region.  In his
youth he went to South Dakota, hoping to rid himself of asthma from which
he suffered all his life.

He came to Chicago before the World's Fair time, and in the spring of 1891
came to Harvey where he clerked at De Voe's shoe store, well-known to early
settlers. Then he was employed by the Illinois and Wisconsin Lumber company
at Riverdale, and on the ceasing of operations of that company, was one of
several who formed the present Chicago and Riverdale Lumber company in 1897.
He served as president of it from 1901 until his retirement in 1928.

Mr. Gamble was married to Miss Zella V. Willets of Harvey, the daughter of
Mrs. G. V. Anderson.   She died in 1915, and it is in her memory that the
First Methodist church is named the Zella Gamble Memorial.

In 1919 Mr. Gamble and Miss Stella Ellis were married.  Mrs. Gamble
survives him and there is one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Wilson of Davenport,
Iowa.

Since his taking up residence in California Mr. Gamble made a number of
visits back here, some on business connected with the lumber company, and
the last time he was here was last June and July.




Transcribed & submitted by Janette (Wilson) Ramos


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