James Gamble
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Born(1803-04-03)3 April 1803
Enniskillen, Ireland
Died29 April 1891(1891-04-29) (aged 88)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
NationalityIrish-American
Occupation(s)Soapmaker and industrialist
co-founder of Procter & Gamble
RelativesWilliam Procter (brother-in-law)

James Gamble (3 April 1803 – 29 April 1891) was an Irish-American soap industrialist.[1][2] He was the co-founder of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837, along with William Procter.

Early life

James Gamble was born at the Graan near Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Ireland and went to Portora Royal School.[3]

Gamble emigrated to America with his parents in 1819. He arrived in Cincinnati, Ohio, on a flat boat down the Ohio River destined for Illinois. His family stopped in Cincinnati when he was seized with an illness. Staying in the city, his father established a nursery and Gamble apprenticed as a soap maker. He attended Kenyon College, graduated in 1824, and manufactured soap on his own in 1828.

Procter & Gamble

Gamble went into business with William Procter after they became related by marriage. Gamble's wife Elizabeth Ann Norris was the sister of Procter's wife Olivia Norris. The pair's father-in-law, Alexander Norris, first suggested that the two go into business together in 1837 and consequently Procter & Gamble was born.[3][4]

Death

Gamble died at his residence in Cincinnati on 29 April 1891 from natural causes.[2] He is interred in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.[5]

Procter, who preceded his partner Gamble in death, is also buried at Spring Grove Cemetery.[6]

Family life

Gamble and Elizabeth Ann (Norris) Gamble had ten children,[1][3] including James Norris Gamble (9 August 1836 – 2 July 1932) who became Vice President of Procter & Gamble and was the chemist who devised the formula for Ivory soap.[1] James Norris Gamble married Margaret Penrose; he died in his sleep on 2 July 1932 in Cincinnati and is interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.[7][8] Another son, David Gamble, built the Gamble House in Pasadena, California.

Gamble's grandson William married Franzeska Wilhelmina (Fanny) Nast, the daughter of the William Nast, a German-American Methodist preacher. Fanny was the first woman to graduate from German Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.[9] As one of Cincinnati's biggest proponents of Methodism, Gamble was a prominent member of Westwood Methodist Church and donated money to construct Methodist churches throughout Greater Cincinnati.[10]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "James Gamble". NNDB. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. 1 2 "James Gamble grave burial information" (PDF). Spring Grove Cemetery. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 "Typhoid Mary and other curiosities in Irish biography". BBC News. 18 December 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "James Gamble". Ohio Biography. Archived from the original on 24 January 2010. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Spring Grove Cemetery". news.cincinnati.com. Archived from the original on 25 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Stradling, David (1 October 2003). Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis. Arcadia Publishing. p. 35. ISBN 9780738524405. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "James Norris Gamble grave burial information" (PDF). Spring Grove Cemetery. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  8. ↑ "Spring Grove Cemetery interment information". Spring Grove Cemetery. Archived from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  9. ↑ Wittke, Carl Frederick (1959). William Nast, patriarch of German Methodism. Wayne State University Press. pp. 218–219.
  10. ↑ "Shiloh Methodist Church". www.delhihistoricalsociety.org. Retrieved 30 April 2022.



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