Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1915
BIOGRAPHIES
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ALBERT D. GILMORE

A large number of the states of the Union have contributed some of their most enterprising citizens to the population of Harrison county, Iowa, and among these may be mentioned Albert. D. GILMORE, a prosperous merchant of Mondamin. Born in the Hoosier state, Mr. GILMORE removed with his parents to Nebraska when a small child and lived in that state until 1910. In that year he came to Harrison county, locating at Mondamin, and has since been engaged in business in that place. While living in Nebraska he was active in civic affairs and held various official positions, his public service being performed in a manner satisfactory to his constituents. Since coming to Harrison county he has continued his interest in civic life and is regarded as one of the most public-spirited citizens of Mondamin.

Albert D. GILMORE, the son of Andrew H. and Sarah J. (ALLEN) GILMORE, was born July 26, 1863, in Greencastle, Indiana. His parents were natives of Ohio and Indiana, respectively, and lived in Indiana until 1868, in which year they moved to Brownville, Nebraska. In that city Andrew H. GILMORE was for many years a partner in a grocery and general merchandise store. He also was treasurer of Nemaha county, Nebraska, for eight years.

Albert D. GILMORE is the eldest of five children born to his parents. He was five years of age when his parents left Indiana to locate in Nebraska, and consequently received all of his education in the latter state. After he was graduated from the Brownville, Nebraska, high school, he took a business course at Musselman Business College at Quincy, Illinois. About that time the family moved to Auburn, Nebraska, and Albert D. went into business with his father, remaining with him for three years, at the end of which time he became deputy treasurer of Nemaha county, remaining in that office for four years. He then became interested in the abstract and real estate business, but two years after engaging in this latter line of activity, was appointed steward of the Nebraska hospital for the insane at Lincoln. He remained with that institution for two years, after which he again engaged in the abstract business, shortly afterward being elected clerk of the district courts of Nemaha county. While holding the office of clerk he still maintained his abstract business. After serving in the clerk's office for four years he again was appointed steward of the state hospital for the insane at Lincoln and remained in that position for six years.

In 1910, Mr. GILMORE came to Mondamin, Harrison county, Iowa, and with his brothers bought out the store of C. L. BEEBE, who had operated a general merchandise store in Mondamin for several years. In addition to his general merchandise business; Mr. GILMORE is extensively engaged in the buying and shipping of fruit. This section of Iowa raises a large amount of small fruit, the soil of Harrison county being particularly adapted to fruit raising. In 1912, Mr. GILMORE shipped twenty carloads of apples alone from Mondamin. In 1914 he shipped fourteen hundred crates of raspberries and many crates of grapes and other fruit, his annual shipments of fruit averaging at least fifteen carloads.

On June 19, 1889, Albert D. GILMORE was united in marriage with Elizabeth C. CURTIS, who was born in Troy, Ohio, a daughter of John and Nancy (CULBERTSON) CURTIS, and to this union has been born one son, Raymond M., who is a young man of much promise. He was graduated from the Mondamin high school and is now taking a preparatory course in Bellevue College, at Bellevue, Nebraska. He intends to enter the law department of the University of Wisconsin, his uncle, E. A. GILMORE, an alumnus of the Harvard law school, being a member of the faculty of that institution. During the summer vacations Raymond works for his father in Mondamin.

Mr. GILMORE is active in the councils of the Republican party, and although he has been in Mondamin but a comparatively short time, already has become actively identified with its political life. He is president of the school board, which has control of the consolidated schools of the township, and has held this position for the past two years. He also is a member of the Mondamin city council. He is a member of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons and has attained to the chapter degree. He also holds membership in the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Woodmen of the World. The family are loyal members of the Presbyterian church, to whose welfare they are generous contributors.

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