Howard Gilman

Howard Gilman (February 15, 1924 – January 3, 1998) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a descendant of Isaac Gilman, who had founded the Gilman Paper Company in 1884.

Biography Gilman was born and raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He attended 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 World War II.

His father Charles Gilman, was the president of the Gilman Paper Company. After his death in 1967, Gilman's brother Charles "Chris" Gilman Jr. became president and Gilman, who was the older brother, became a senior officer. The position of director of the arts center at Dartmouth was endowed by the Howard Gilman Foundation and is entitled the Howard L. Gilman '44 Executive Director.