Gilbert, Reuben

GILBERT, BADGER, GYPE

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Date: 3/30/2021 at 14:33:22

Rueben Gilbert is a native of New York, born in 1818, and is the son of Reuben and Nancy (Badger) Gilbert. He came to this county Nov. 8, 1854, and in 1856 bought a farm in Franklin Township, which he improved. In 1863 he moved to his present farm on section 4, Franklin Township. July 8, 1849, he married Miss Mary A. Gype, a native of Pennsylvania. They have three children – Lyman H., Benjamin L., and Ida V., the wife of John A Hough, of West Chester, Iowa. In 1876 Benjamin moved to Shelby County, Iowa, where he worked at his trade of carpenter. From there he went to Council Bluffs, and then into Arkansas with a railroad bridge-building corps. After being engaged in that business for a time he started home, got as far as St. Louis, and there disappeared, and has never been heard from. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert are members of the Baptist Church. Politically he is a Republican, and has been the Constable of his township.

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Washington County, Iowa (1887). Excerpt from Biographical Sketch of Reuben Gilbert, page 187.