Howard Gilman
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| Howard Gilman | |
| Born | 15 February 1924 Manhattan |
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| Died | 3 January 1998 Florida |
| Occupation | Industrialist |
| Parents | Sylvia Gilman |
Howard Gilman (15 February 1924 – 3 January 1998) was descendent of the founder of the Gilman Paper Company Isaac Gilman who founded the company in 1884.
He was born and raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He attended the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York and received his bachelor's degree in 1944 from Dartmouth College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He served in the Navy during part of World War II.
He died of a heart attack at age 73, in January of 1998 at his White Oak Plantation near Jacksonville, Florida. He had $1.1 billion in assets, and $550 million of debt. He was childless, and donated his assets to the Howard Gilman Foundation. The Brooklyn Academy of Music has the Howard Gilman Opera House and there is the Howard Gilman Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]
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- ^ "Howard Gilman, Executive And Philanthropist, Dies at 73", The New York Times, 1998-01-05. Retrieved on 2007-06-01. "Howard Gilman, the chairman of the Gilman Paper Company, who was a philanthropist and a collector of photographs and other art, died on Saturday on an estate near Jacksonville, Florida. He was 73 and lived in midtown Manhattan."
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