James Gamble
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James Norris Gamble (1803-1891) was a U.S.-based Irish soapmaker and industrialist. He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter & Gamble Company in 1837, along with William Procter.
Gamble was born near Enniskillen, Ireland. After graduating from Kenyon College in 1824 (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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