Howard Gilman (February 15, 1924 – January 3, 1998) was an American business magnate and philanthropist.
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.
[1]After his brother died from a hear attack in 1982, his widow Sondra Gilman sold him her share of the company.
The largest project was spending $154 million transforming the White Oak Plantation in Yulee, Florida—which was acquired by the Gilman family in 1938—into a conservation preserve and conference center.
[1] Gilman died in 1998 of a heart attack at age 73, at his White Oak estate near Jacksonville, Florida.