William James Gilmore

1884 - 1957  (72 years)

• Name	William James Gilmore  [1]
  Born	8 Aug 1884	Nevada, Story County, Iowa, USA   [2, 3]
  	Undocumented internet source gives birth as 8 August 1884 in Ogden, Iowa. http://familytrees.genopro.com/Azrael/596327/family-WilliamJamesGilmoreAndFaithClark-F19443.htm
  Gender	Male
  Census	3 Apr 1930	340 30t St., Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA   [4]
  	1. Gilmore, William James, head, owns, value $7500, not a farm, male, white, 45, married, first married at age 27, can read and write, Iowa, Iowa, Iowa, professor, state college 2. _____, Faith, wife, female, white, 39 married, first married age 20, can read and write, Iowa, New York, Illinois 3. _____, William James, Jr, son, male, white 17, attending school, can read and write, Canada, Iowa, Iowa 4. _____, Geraldine Faith, daughter, female, white, 8, attending school, Oregon, Iowa, Iowa
  Residence	May 1934	Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA   [1]
  Residence	Aug 1937	Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA   [5]
  Occupation	1905-1946	Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA   [3]
  	Served as head of the agricultural engineering department at Oregon State. Professor emeritus.
  Occupation	1946-1950	Kobe, Japan   [3]
  	Served as Army education director under General MacArthur.
  Residence	1950	Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA   [3]
  Died	17 Apr 1957	Eureka, Humboldt County, California, USA   [3]
  NEWS	20 Apr 1959	Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon, USA   [3]
  	Obituary, Corvallis Gazette-Times: "William J. Gilmore, Ex-OSC Prof, Dies William James Gilmore, 74, passed away in Eureka, Calif.m, on April 17. Mr. Gilmore, OSC professor emeritus, taught for 31 years and served s head of the agricultural engineering department. Following college retirement in 1946, he served four years in Kobe, Japan, as a director of army education under Gen. Douglas McArthur. In 1950 Professor and Mrs. Gilmore estableshed [sic] their home in Riverside, calif. During 1956 they sailed to Ireland and traveled throughout western Europe. After two years in Spain and the Canary Islands the moved to Switzerland, returning to California this spring. He was born in Nevada, Iowa on August 8, 1884. He received degrees from Iowa State college in engineering in 1909 and agricultural engineering in 1911. He served on the faculty of the department of agricultural engineering at Manatoba Agricultural college in Canada for five years before coming to OSC. Gilmore was a member of Calvary Presbyterian church of Riverside; the Masonic Lodge of Corvallis, and Scottish Rite Grand Consistory of Japan. He was affiliated with Phi Kappa Psi social fraternity. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Faith C. Gilmore; daughter, Mrs. Geraldine F. Hofsted, grandson Jolyon G. Hofsted all of Eureka, and a sister, Mrs. Warren Burton of Whittier, Calif."
  Person ID	I1230	Gilmore-Donald
  Last Modified	7 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	William James Gilmore,   b. 25 Dec 1850, Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA ,   d. 29 Apr 1934, Palo Alto County, Iowa, USA  (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Jerusha Norton,   b. 10 Nov 1855, Marshall County, Iowa, USA ,   d. 7 Mar 1898, Story County, Iowa, USA  (Age 42 years)
  Married	1868  [1]
  Family ID	F469	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Faith Clark,   d. After April 1959
  Married	Y  [3]
  Children	1. William James Gilmore, Jr,   b. Abt 1913, Canada ,   d. 22 Feb 1945, Worms, Germany  (Age ~ 32 years) + 2. Geraldine F. Gilmore
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F477	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1259] "W. J. Gilmore Services Tues. At Nevada " The Ames Daily Tribune (Ames, Iowa), 1 May 1934 p. 4, col. 1; digital image Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 4 March 2020). [S1275] 1885 Iowa State Census, Story County, population schedule, Milford township, p. 1 (penned), p. 286 (stamped, top right), line 1, dwelling 3, family 3, George Gillmore household; "Iowa State Census, 1885," digital images, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org : accessed 6 March 2020); citing original, Iowa State Historical Society, Des Moines. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-63R9-CKM. [S1276] "William . Gilmore, Ex-OSC Prof, Dies," Corvallis Gazette-Times (Corvallis, Oregon.), 20 April 1959, p. 2, col. 4; digital image, Newspapers.com (http://www.newspapers.com/ : accessed 6 March 2020). [S1277] 1930 U.S. census, Benton County, Oregon, population schedule, Corvallis (340 30th St.), enumeration district (ED) 19, sheet 2A, p. 106 (stamped, recto), dwelling 29, family 29, William James Gilmore household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 March 2020); citing NARA microfilm publication T626, [roll not stated]. [S1265] Find A Grave (http://www.findagrave.com : accessed 5 March 2020), memorial 118726434, digital image of marker and transcribed obituary, for Maria A. Gilmore Pellersels (1876-1937), citing Nevada Municipal Cemetery (Nevada, Story County, Iowa, USA).