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Scholars and biographers continue to perpetuate three canards about Hemingway's World War I friend Captain James Gamble: that he came from Cincinnati, that his wealth was from the Procter & Gamble Company, and that he was homosexual. In fact he came from Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and his family's wealth from the timber industry. Research on his life and interviews with his niece reveal his 1926 marriage in Paris, a modest career as a painter, and other details. As to his identification as a gay, the evidence is either speculation, insinuation, or fabrication.