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Gibson, James King – Gibson, William Hamilton

Gibson, James King

soldier, farmer, merchant, congressman, was born Feb. 18, 1812, in Abingdon, Va. He was postmaster at Abingdon from 1838 until 1849. He was teller in the Exchange bank of Virginia at Abingdon in 1849, and notary public. He was elected to the forty-first congress as a democrat.

Gibson, James W

lawyer, soldier, journalist, was born Oct. 26, 1845, in Detroit, Mich. He served with distinction as a union soldier during the civil war. Has practiced law successfully for more than a quarter of a century, and for nine years served as county judge. He is the editor and joint owner of The Weekly Press of Newton, Ill. His poems have been given a place in Poets of America, and other standard collections.

Gibson, John

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 23, 1740, in Lancaster, Pa.

He served in the revolutionary war. He was a judge of the court of common pleas and a general of militia. In 1800 he was appointed secretary of the territory of Indiana, holding the position until it became a state. He was acting governor of Indiana from 1811 to 1813. He died April 10, 1822, near Vincennes, Ind.

Gibson, John Bannister

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 8, 1780, in Carlisle, Pa. In 1810-11 he was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature; and in 1813 was appointed a judge of the eleventh district. He died May 3, 1853, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Gibson, Louis Henry

architect, author, was born in 1854 in Indiana. He is an architect of Indianapolis; and the author of Beautiful Houses, a Study in House-building; Convenient Houses; Gradual Reduction Milling; and Artistic Houses at Moderate Cost.

Gibson, Randall Lee

soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Sept. 10, 1832, in Springfield, Ky. He attained the rank of major-general in the confederate army; and afterward settled in the practice of law in New Orleans, La. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the fortyfourth congress; was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; and was elected a senator of the United States from Louisiana in 1882; and was re-elected in 1888. He died Dec. 15, 1892.

Gibson, Robert Williams

architect, was born Nov. 17, 1854, in England.

He has attained a national reputation as an architect.

Gibson, Tobias

pioneer, was born Nov. 10, 1771, in Liberty, S. C. He made four trips while a missionary through the wilderness to the Cumberland, and laid the foundations of methodism in the southwest. He died April 10, 1804, in Natchez, Tenn.

Gibson, William

physician, educator, was born in 1788 in Baltimore, Md. He was a famous physician of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in the university of Pennsylvania in 1819-55; and the author of Principles and Practice of Surgery; and Rambles in Europe. He died March 2, 1868, in Savannah, Ga.

Gibson, William

naval officer, author, was born in 1826 in Maryland. He was a United States naval officer retired in 1879; and the author of Sailing Directions for the Kattegat, etc.; Poems of Many Years; Vision of Faery Land, and Other Poems; a translation of the Miscellaneous Poems of Goethe. He died in 1887.

Gibson, William Hamilton

artist, author, was born Oct. 5, 1850, in Sandy Hook, Conn. He was an artist and author of New York city who has illustrated his own writings; and the author of The Complete American Trapper; Pastoral Days; Highways and Byways; Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine; Happy Hunting-Grounds; Sharp-Eyes, a Rambler's Calendar; Camp Life in the Woods; and Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms.