Biography: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: William M. GILBERT ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, December 2007 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Transcribed from Lawson, Publius V. History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: its cities, towns, resources people. Chicago: C.F. Cooper and Company, 1908. v.2 p.679 Commodore William M. Gilbert was born in Philadelphia, July 25, 1852, son of William and Anna Gilbert, natives of Philadelphia. In 1882 he formed a partnership with Geo. A. Whiting, under the firm name of Gilbert & Whiting, erecting a one machine paper mill on the lower end of the canal at Menasha, selling his interest in 1886. He has for many years manifested a lively interest in yachting on Lake Winnebago, and by common consent given the title of Commodore, having been several years head officer of several yacht clubs. He is the only paper manufacturer owning a steam launch, and he has the finest on the river, the "Tia Juania." He is president of the Manufacturers' Bank of Neenah, and a director in the Riverside Fibre & Paper Company with mills at Appleton. He married May 14, 1879, Miss Priscilla A. Hartsook, of Illinois. Their son, Albert C., was born November 20, 1887.