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Gibbens, Alvaro Franklin

historian, journalist, poet, was born March 1, 1837, in Parkersburg, W. Va. He graduated in 1860, and received the degree of A. M. in 1865 from Jefferson college, Pennsylvania. He studied law but never practiced; taught in Baptist college of La Grange, Mo., in 1861; was editor of Parkersburg Gazette in 1865; of West Virginia Journal, 1870 to 1876; of State Tribune, 1881 to 1885; elder in Kanawha Presbyterian church; was corresponding member of the international executive committee of the Young Men's Christian association in 1873; was postmaster at Charleston for years; member of the republican state executive committee eight years; contributor to Masonic Review and other fraternal and literary magazines of poems and prose articles; delivered in 1885, at class reunion, the quarter-centennial poem; co-editor of Prominent Men of West Virginia; and editor of a History of Wood County; and is vice-president and charter member of the West Virginia State Historical and Antiquarian society.