YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817
CHARLES CHAMPION GILBERT, the youngest of nine children of Judge Samuel Gilbert (Yale 1759) and Deborah (Champion) Gilbert, of Gilead Society, in Hebron, Connecticut, was born on April 14, 1797.
He studied law with his brother-in-law, Samuel Jones (Yale 1800), in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1820 settled in practice in Janesville, Ohio, where he married, on July 26, 1821, Deborah Cass, daughter of Wyllys Silliman, a prominent lawyer, and Deborah Webster (Cass) Silliman.
He was soon diverted from his profession by an appointment as Register of the United States Bank, which he held from 1825 to 1828; and from this office he passed to a position in the Zanesville Bank, with the result that the rest of his life was given to banking. He was also mayor of the city, and prominent in other public positions.
His wife died on November 1, 1839, in her 34th year; and his own death followed, on November 18, 1844, in his 54th year.
Their children were four sons and six daughters. The eldest son was graduated at West Point in 1846.
— Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, CT, 1913), pp. 18-19.
YALE COLLEGE, CLASS OF 1817
CHARLES CHAMPION GILBERT, the youngest of nine children of Judge Samuel Gilbert (Yale 1759) and Deborah (Champion) Gilbert, of Gilead Society, in Hebron, Connecticut, was born on April 14, 1797.
He studied law with his brother-in-law, Samuel Jones (Yale 1800), in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and in 1820 settled in practice in Janesville, Ohio, where he married, on July 26, 1821, Deborah Cass, daughter of Wyllys Silliman, a prominent lawyer, and Deborah Webster (Cass) Silliman.
He was soon diverted from his profession by an appointment as Register of the United States Bank, which he held from 1825 to 1828; and from this office he passed to a position in the Zanesville Bank, with the result that the rest of his life was given to banking. He was also mayor of the city, and prominent in other public positions.
His wife died on November 1, 1839, in her 34th year; and his own death followed, on November 18, 1844, in his 54th year.
Their children were four sons and six daughters. The eldest son was graduated at West Point in 1846.
— Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College (New Haven, CT, 1913), pp. 18-19.
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B. near Hanover, CN. D. in Zanesville. Married Deborah Cass.
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