Husband Dr. William Gibson, M.D. 1
Born: 22 Jan 1813 - Oswego Co, NY 1
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Father: Samuel Gibson ( -1815) 1
Mother: Mary McDonald ( - ) 1
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Wife Susan Beatty 2
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Father: Joseph Beatty ( - ) 3
Mother: Susanna Lintner ( - ) 3
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. William Gibson, M.D.
He spent his youth at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and there commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Samuel Agnew, of Harrisburg, resuming his studies with Dr. Alexander Proudfit, of Oswego, New York. He graduated at New York Medical University. He commenced the practice of medicine in the city of Oswego with Dr. Proudfit, his preceptor. In the fall of 1836 he left for St. Louis, Missouri, to resume his profession, but being detained en route at Jamestown, Pennsylvania, he concluded to remain there.
He was a man of influence and means; was the early pioneer, and an official in the construction of the several railroads centering at Jamestown, Mercer County, Pennsylvania; was President of the Jamestown & Franklin Railroad, and secured its construction to completion. He held the largest interest in the Mercer Iron & Coal Company at Stoneboro, which produced in the aggregate 500 tons of coal per day; was also the largest stock owner in the Standard Mining Company, of Pennsylvania, and President of the Mica Mines in New Hampshire, also President of the Jamestown Banking Company; was largely interested in real estate, and donated by deed of trust the perpetual, annual, income of two large brick blocks in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, (costing over $75,000) to the United Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board of the United States, for the free distribution of the Scriptures in Arabic in Egypt and Palestine.
He and his wife traveled extensively in Europe, Asia and Africa; were members of the Quaker City excursion party that Mark Twain graphically outlines in his journal as the Innocents Abroad. In his office cabinet were over 3,000 relics and mementoes he gathered from sacred places and of historic interest, about Jerusalem, Palestine and Egypt. In the collection are 285 genuine ancient coins, that date back 650 years prior to the Christian era, and down to the reign of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, A. D. 161. The collection consisted of Assyrian, Babylonian, Roman, Greek and Hebrew coins, dug up by an English company running a tunnel of excavation along the ancient valley skirting the foundations of the old Jewish temple, while exploring by tunneling within the ancient military quarters in the Tyropeon Valley. The collection was given to the United States Consul at Jerusalem, who intended to donate them to the National Museum, Washington, D. C., but presented them instead to Dr. Gibson. [HCC 1885, 1184]