James Gamble

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This article is about the co-founder of Proctor & Gamble. For the Pennsylvania congressman, see James Gamble (congressman).

James Gamble (1803-1891) was a US-based Irish soapmaker and industrialist. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837, along with William Procter.

After graduating from Kenyon College in 1854 (as a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon), he married Elizabeth Norris. His future business partner William Proctor married Elizabeth's sister Olivia. The pair's father-in-law, Alexander Norris, first suggested that the two go into business together in 1837 and consequently Proctor & Gamble was born.

James' son, William, married Franzeska Wilhelmina (Fanny) Nast, the daughter of the Rev. William Nast, a German-American Methodist preacher. Fanny was the first woman to graduate from German Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.

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