 After divorcing Sophia, Edward married Mrs. Jennie Isabel Apple on February 28, 1907.Edward served for ten years as editor of the "Iowa Tribune", was chairman of the National Committee Union Labor/Populist Party, and served for years as one of the directors of the Iowa Humane Society.Congressman Gillette lived out his life on his farm, Clover Hills Place, near Valley Junction, Iowa, close to Des Moines, and died there on August 14, 1918, at the age of seventy-eight.