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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [182]

           CHARLES GILBERT, farmer, resident on section 8, Meade Township,
        has lived in the State of Michigan from boyhood, and in Huron Coun-
        ty since he settled in the township of Meade, in the fall of 1859.
        He was born in Norway, Oct. 11, 1837.  His parents, WILLIAM and
        CATHERINE (ANDERSON) GILBERT, were also natives of Norway, where
        they married and settled and lived until the death of MR. G., the
        father.  After that event the mother came with her children to the
        United States and settled at Pontiac, Oakland Co., Mich., in 1853,
        where she died in November, 1854.
           MR. GILBERT was 15 years old when the family located at Pontiac.
        He is the sixth of seven children born to his parents, and secured
        a fair education in his native country.  He remained in Pontiac
        about 18 months and proceeded thence to Port Huron.  He resided
        there until the date of his coming to Meade Township.  He bought 80
        acres of Government land, for which he paid $40.  The tract was in
        a wholly wild state and he settled in the "brush," built a log
        house and began the work of clearing and improving his place.  He
        has prospered in his efforts and has exhibited his inherited traits
        of energy and thrift to good purpose.  He is now the owner of 120
        acres of land and has placed the major portion under excellent cul-
        tivation.
           MR. GILBERT is a Republican of the efficient type.  He has held
        the office of Supervisor of Meade Township four consecutive years,
        and has officiated as Justice of the Peace the same length of time.
        He was Treasurer from 1871 to 1877 and has discharged the duties of
        the different school offices.
           The spirit in which MR. GILBERT adopted this country as his own,
        was conclusively proven by his enrollment in the service of the
        Union during the civil war.  He was enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in the
        23d Mich. Inf., and was in active service until the close of the
        conflict.  He obtained an honorable discharge, June 28, 1865, at
        Detroit.  Among the engagements in which he was an active partici-
        pant were Perryville, Ky., London, Campbell Station, and at the
        seige of Knoxville, Tenn., and he went with SHERMAN toward the sea
        as far as Atlanta.  He was also involved in numerous minor skirm-
        ishes.  On receiving his discharge he returned to his farm in Huron
        County.
           The marriage of MR. GILBERT to ANNE C. PETERSEN occurred in
        Meade Township, Oct. 24, 1861.  Nine children have been born to
        them, - CHARLES A., GEORGE J., MARY R., EMMA M., ANNE M., BERTIE
        A., EMMA A., HENRY C. and WILLIAM.  EMMA M. died July 22, 1877.
           MRS. GILBERT was born March 11, 1833, in Norway.  She is the
        daughter of CHRISTOPHER and CAROLINE PETERSEN and accompanied her
        parents to America in the fall of 1855.

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