GONNE, William H. (1834-1915) was born in Vermont on 18 April 1834, son of a Baptist minister. He came to Canada in 1855 or 1856 and opened an architectural office in Chatham in 1872 (Chatham Weekly Planet, 22 Feb. 1872, 3, advert.). He was '..an architect and superintendent of building in the early days of Chatham, and he planned and superintended most of old buildings now standing in the Maple City'. In later years he served as Town Assessor for Chatham and died there on 6 September 1915 (port. and obituary in the Chatham Daily Planet, 7 Sept. 1915, 1; biog. inf. from Canada, 1901 Census, Ontario: Kent South, District 6, Div. 4, page 10)
W.H. GONNE (works in Chatham, Ont.)
KING STREET, commercial block of four stores for an unnamed client, 1873 (Globe [Toronto], 17 April 1873, 3, t.c.)
PUBLIC SCHOOL FOR COLOURED PEOPLE, King Street at Princess Street, 1873 (Journal of Education for Ontario, xxvi, Nov. 1873, 169)
CHRYSLER WARD PUBLIC SCHOOL, additions and alterations, 1878 (Chatham Tri-Weekly Planet, 29 May 1878, 3, t.c.)
QUEEN STREET PUBLIC SCHOOL, 1878 (Chatham Tri-Weekly Planet, 25 Oct. 1878, 2, descrip.)
KING STREET, commercial block 'to occupy the site of the Golden Lion Store', 1880 (Chatham Weekly Planet, 8 April 1880, 3)
MILLER BLOCK, King Street, 1880 (Chatham Weekly Planet, 10 June 1880, 1)