When Joseph Alexander Gillette was born on 15 October 1894, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States, his father, Joseph Gillett, was 27 and his mother, Victoria Parisot, was 24. He married Frances Jane Norton on 20 November 1920, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States. He lived in Detroit Ward 20, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920 and Highland Park, Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 5 August 1981, in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
English: variant of Gillett , with spelling altered and stress shifted as if it were a modern French name (see 2 below).
French: variant of Gillet and, in North America, a variant of its altered form Gillett .
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