C. E. Gilbert
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.
C. E. Gilbert was born at Livingston, Alabama, July 4, 1855; removed to Eutaw, Ala., with his mother during the war between the States, and after the war to Carrollton, Ala., where his father (who had returned from the war and whose printing office had been burned by General Wilson), established the "West Alabamian"; worked in his father's office from 1866 to 1876; came to Texas in the latter year; worked at Fort Worth and Marlin; bought the "Tablet" at Navasota and ran the paper five years and then sold it and in May, 1881, established at Abilene the "Reporter"; sold the "Reporter" in 1886 and, in partnership with L. L. Foster, established the "Herald," an evening paper published at Dallas : bought out Foster in 1887 ; later consolidated the paper with the "Times," under the name of "Times-Herald," which he continued to conduct until the spring of 1893; published the "Georgetown Democrat" in Williamson county in 1894-5; sold the paper in 1896 and returned to Dallas; was State Expert Printer from February, 1897, to January, 1901; bought the "Texas State Democrat" at Austin in 1897, and continued to publish it until appointed Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds by Gov. Lanham, January 23, 1903. He married Miss Gertrude Wilson at Carrollton, Ala., and has five children, two sons and three daughters.
[Submitted by Janice Rice]

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