Donald Gilmore
American businessman and philanthropist
Donald Sherwood Gilmore (March 7, 1895 – December 21, 1979) was an American businessman and philanthropist.
Personal life
Gilmore was the middle son of James F. Gilmore (1857–1908) and Carrie Maria Sherwood Gilmore Upjohn (1866–1953). His older brother was James Stanley Gilmore (1890–1982) and his younger brother was Irving Samuel Gilmore (1900–1986).
Gilmore graduated from The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey in 1916, after which he briefly attended Yale University.
In 1916, Gilmore married his step-sister, Genevieve Upjohn (1894–1990). His mother and her father, William Erastus “W.E.” Upjohn (1853–1932), married in 1913 after the deaths of their first spouses. Donald and Genevieve Upjohn Gilmore had three daughters: Carol Gilmore Boudeman (1917–1991), Jane Gilmore Maloney (1919–1996), and Martha Gilmore Parfet (1925–2017).,
Gilmore’s hobbies included silver work and collecting antique cars. In 1966, Gilmore established the Gilmore Car Museum, which as of 2023 contains over 400+automobiles and is open year-round.
Career
Gilmore began his career in 1916 at Gilmore Brothers, the department store founded by his father and uncle in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1881. Gilmore became a member of the department store’s board of directors in 1917.
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