Robert Martin Gibson and Mary A. Dunlap

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Husband Robert Martin Gibson ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 11 May 1845 - Richland Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 4 5
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         Father: Charles Gibson, Sr. (1803-1894) 1 2 6
         Mother: Elizabeth Jane Logue (      -1885) 1 6

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   Other Spouse: Anna M. "Annie" Owens (      -      ) 1 3 7 - 22 Feb 1881 1 7

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Robert Gibson.

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Wife Mary A. Dunlap ⁵

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• Note: This may be the same person as : Mary Dunlap.

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Children

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1 M Charles E. Gibson ^{1 5}

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            AKA: Charlie C. Gibson 7
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2 F Margaret "Maggie" Gibson ^{1 7}

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Martin Gibson

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He was educated at the public schools of Richland township, Allegheny County, and Jefferson College, of Washington County. After completing his education he engaged in farming for a number of years, and in 1876 was chosen freight and station agent on the P. & W. R. R. at Gibsonia, which he held for seven years. In 1879 he engaged in general mercantile business, and in 1880 was appointed postmaster.
He and his family are members of the Presbyterian Church at Bakerstown.

His early studies were pursued in the schools of the locality, and he was for three years a student in Jefferson College, entering business life immediately after leaving this institution and becoming connected with the construction of the Pittsburgh & Western Railroad, a project in which his father was heavily interested. Upon its completion and the beginning of business thereon, Mr. Gibson became freight and passenger agent at Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, later opening a general mercantile establishment in Gibsonia which he maintained for many years, drawing upon the surrounding country-side for his patronage and building up a trade of unusually large dimensions. For three years he was engaged in the same line at Bakerstown, Pennsylvania, and upon his return to Gibsonia he continued as a merchant for four years thereafter. Mr. Gibson was especially active in the promotion of enterprises affecting the region in which he lived, and was the chief organizer of the Northern Pittsburgh Telephone Company, of which he was for several years president and general manager, and was also president of the Allegheny & Butler Plank Road Company. The Butler Short Line received his support at the time of its organization, and any movement, whatever its magnitude, that promises the welfare and improvement of the condition of the body of the people receives his enthusiastic backing. Under the administration of President William McKinley Mr. Gibson was appointed postmaster of the town bearing his name, Gibsonia, and served until July 1, 1914, when his resignation took effect, his daughter, Nancy Owens, being appointed to fill the vacancy thus caused. With his family he is a member of the Presbyterian Church, and subscribed one-third of the cost of erection of a church of this denomination in Gibsonia. [GPHWP, 827]

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 749.

2 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 346.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 827, 1107.

4 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 347.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 827.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 826.

7 Editor, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. II (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 348.