John F. Gilbert and Ruth Roberts

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Husband John F. Gilbert ¹

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           Born: 22 Nov 1897 - Sharon, Mercer Co, PA 1
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         Father: Frank Gilbert (      -1935) 1
         Mother: Cora Pettitt (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 15 Jun 1933 - Warren, Trumbull Co, OH 2

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Wife Ruth Roberts ²

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         Father: Mont L. Roberts (      -      ) 2 3
         Mother: Lois Linder (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 M Robert Gilbert ²

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2 M Edward Gilbert ²

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General Notes: Husband - John F. Gilbert

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He spent almost all his life in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He received his preparatory education in the local public schools and went from high school to Dickinson College, where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1920. During the war years, he was a mem­ber of the Dickinson unit of the Students' Army Training Corps, in which he served as top sergeant and instructor in bayonet practice. Mr. Gilbert also attended the Uni­versity of Pennsylvania for special work. He began his active career in 1920 and in 1923 he established his own general insurance agency and operated it until 1927. At this time it was merged with an agency operated by Ed Buchholz and this partnership was conducted under the name of Buchholz & Gilbert. This agency was established in 1854 by the Mattiox Brothers, who conducted it until 1875. It was then purchased by Thomas Beil, who was its owner until 1912, when Ed Buchholz took over. Mr. Buchholz headed the agency alone until he formed his partnership with Mr. Gil­bert in 1927. He died in 1934 and at that time Mr. Gilbert brought his brother, Samuel P. Gilbert into the business as a partner. The agency, conducted under the name of Gilberts, became one of the best known general insurance agencies in the Sharon area.
In addition to his insurance business, Mr. Gilbert served as president of the Community Loan Company and the Consumers Discount Company, both of Sharon. He was very active in the Pennsylvania Association of Insur­ance Agents and was a member of many of Sharon's prin­cipal institutions, among them the local Protected Home Circle. He was a member of this order since he was fourteen years of age and thus continued a notable family tradition. He was also a member of the Sharon Chamber of Commerce, the Sharon Country Club, the Buhl Club, the American Legion, the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Masonic Order, in which he was affiliated with the Blue Lodge, New Castle Con­sistory and the other Scottish Rite bodies and Zem Zem Temple of the Mystic Shrine at Erie. A Republican in politics, he never entered public life, but was actively interested in public affairs and the civic progress of the Sharon community. He was a member of the First Pres­byterian Church in Sharon.

1 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 229.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 230.

3 Kate M. Zahniser & Charles Reed Zahniser, The Zahnisers - A History of the Family in America (Mercer, PA: Kate M. Zahniser, Publisher, 1906), Pg 95.