- GILBERT S. GILBERTSON is a native of Spring Grove, Minnesota,
where he was born
- October 17, 1863. His education was completed at a business
college in Janesville, Wisconsin, and in the spring of 1879 he
removed to Worth County, Iowa. Aside from farming his first employment
was bookkeeping in an implement house in Forest City. In 1889
he was elected clerk of the District Court of Winnebago County
in which office he was continued by reflections until 1896 when
he resigned to become a member of the State Senate from the Forty-first
District. Mr. Gilbertson became a financier early in the nineties
organizing a number of banks and loan companies. He was also
owner and publisher of the Winnebago Summit of Forest
City. For ten years he was treasurer of the city and was seven
years a member of the school board, and chairman of the Republican
county committee. In 1900 he was nominated and elected State
Treasurer and was reelected in 1902.
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- [Taken from "History of Iowa from the Earliest Times
to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Vol. IV" by Benjamin
F. Gue; (c)1903 The Century History Co., New York City; p. 102]
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