Gilbert, Abram V. T.

Born: 1825-05-29 Troy, New York

Died: 1892-03-28 Monmouth, Illinois

Flourished: 1847 to 1892 Warren County, Illinois

Abram V. T. Gilbert, physician and druggist, moved to Illinois with his family as a child. He graduated from Rush Medical College in 1847, then settled in Warren County, where he practiced medicine in Berwick, initially in partnership with George H. Wright. He was a founding member of the Warren County Medical Association in 1855. Gilbert opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and upon the organization of the Republican Party in Warren County in 1856, was appointed to the county’s central Republican committee. He was elected as a Republican to the Illinois House of Representatives, where he served 1857 to 1858. Gilbert registered for the draft in the Fourth Illinois Congressional District in 1863, but there is no further evidence that he served in the Civil War. In 1848 Gilbert married Zidania (Sidana) Kelly and following her death he married Maria Malinda Gaylord in 1867. He was survived by nine children. Gilbert was a member of the Presbyterian church.

William M. Gilbert, ed., A Brief Outline of the History and Pedigrees of the House of Gaillard or Gaylord (n.p.: n.p., n.d.), 26-28; Annual Announcement of Rush Medical College (Chicago: A. G. Newell, 1884), 41; The Monmouth Atlas (IL), 25 June 1847, 3:1; 3 March 1854, 1:2-4; 29 February 1856, 2:4; Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Warren County, 22 June 1848; 6 February 1867, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Warren County, IL, 29; Daily Illinois State Register (Springfield), 15 November 1856, 2:2; The Monmouth Review (IL), 8 May 1857, 1:2; John Clayton, comp., The Illinois Fact Book and Historical Almanac 1673-1968 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 221; U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865 (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2010); The Monmouth Daily Review (IL), 28 March 1892, 4:3; Gravestone, Monmouth Cemetery, Monmouth, IL.