mounted their guns, and destroyed their works. In this attack Col. Gibson received a wound, from which lie died the next day.
GIBSON, John, soldier, b. in Lancaster. Pa.,
28 May, 1740; d. at Braddock's field, near Pitts-
burg, 10 April, 1822. He received a classical
education, and in 1757 joined the expedition
against the Indians in which Fort Duquesne was
captured. He settled at Fort Pitt as a trader, was
taken prisoner, and rescued from the stake by a
scpiaw that adopted him. He married the sister
of Logan, an Indian chief, and became familiar
with the Indian manners, language, and customs.
At the close of hostilities, Gibson again settled at
Fort Pitt, and in 1774 acted a conspicuous part in
Lord Dunmore's expedition against the Shawnee
towns. In the treaty that followed the battle of
Point Pleasant, he negotiated between Logan, the
Shawnee chief, and Lord Dunmore, and through
his mediation many captive Indians were set at
liberty. At the beginning of the Revolution he
was appointed to command a regiment, served
with the army in New York and in the Jer-
sey retreat, and commanded the western military
department from 1781 i;ntil peace was established.
In 1788 he was a member of the Pennsylvania
convention, subsequently was associate judge of
the court of common pleas of Alleghany county,
and major-general of militia. President Jefferson
appointed him in 1801 secretary of the territory
of Indiana, and he held this otiice until Indiana
became a state, when he was acting governor from
1811 till 1813. — His brother, George, soldier, b. in
Lancaster, Pa., 10 Oct., 1747; d. in Fort Jefferson,
Ohio, 14 Dec, 1791, received an academic educa-
tion, entered a mei'cantile house in Philadelphia,
and made several voyages as supercargo to the
West Indies. When the Revolution began, he
raised a company of one hundred men, and was
appointed captain of a state regiment. His sol-
diers were distinguished for good conduct and
bravery, and were known in the army as " Gib-
son's Lambs." In order to obtain a supply of
gunpowder, he descended the Mississippi river
with twenty-five picked men, and after a hazardous
journey succeeded in accomplishing his mission.
On his return he was appointed to the command
of a Virginia regiment, joined Gen. Washington
before the evacuation of New York, and was en-
gaged in all the principal battles of the campaign
of 1778. He retired to his farm in Cumberland
county. Pa., after the war, and was county lieutenant
until 1791, when he took command of a regiment
in the St. Clair expedition against the Ohio Indians.
At the battle of Miami, 4 Nov., 1791, he received
a mortal wound. — His son, George, soldier, b. in
Pennsylvania in 1783; d. in Washington, D. C,
29 Sept., 1801, entered the army from civil life,
and was appointed captain of infjintry, 3 May,
1808: was promoted major in 1811, and served
throughout the war of 1812, as lieutenant-colonel
of the 5th infantry. In 1810 he was appointed
quartermaster-general, served with Gen. Andrew
Jackson during the Florida campaign, was pro-
moted commissary-general in 1818, and in 1826
brevetted brigadier-general for faithful service.
He served throughout the Mexican war, and was
brevetted major-general, 10 May, 1848, for meri-
torious conduct. Gen. Gibson was at the head of
the commissary department more than fifty years.
— His brother, Joliii Bannister, jurist, b. in Car-
lisle, Pa., 8 Nov., 1780 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 3
May, 1853, was graduated at Dickinson college in
1800, studied law, was admitted to the bar of
Cumberland county. Pa., in 1803, and practised in
the counties of Carlisle and Beaver, and in Hagers-
town, Md. In 1810-'l he represented Carlisle in the
state legislature, and in 1813 was appointed judge
of the 11th district of Pennsylvania. In 1816 he
was promoted to the supreme court, and in 1827
became chief justice of Pennsylvania. By a
change in the constitution in 1851, an amendment
made the judiciary elective, and lie was returned
by a large majority to the supreme bench, where
he remained until his death. Chief- Justice Gibson
was eminent as a Shakespearian authority, and re-
lieved the tedium of his professional studies by
readings from his favorite dramas.
GIBSON, John Morison, Canadian lawyer, b.
in the township of Toronto, York co., Ontario, 1
Jan., 1842. He was graduated at University col-
lege, Toronto, in 1863, studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar in 1807. He entered the law
course at the LTniversity of Toronto, receiving the
degree of LL. D., and the gold medal of the fac-
ulty in 1869, and was examiner in that faculty for
the years 1871-'2. He was elected a member of
the senate of Toronto university in 1873 and 1878.
He is a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, has been
an active member of that force since 1860, and was
with his regiment at Ridgeway in 1866. He was
a member of the Canadian Wimbledon rifle-teams
in 1874-'5 and 1879, winning prizes on these occa-
sions. In 1879 he won the Prince of Wales's
prize (a badge and £100). In 1881 he commanded
the Canadian Wimbledon team that defeated the
British team in the contest for the Rajah of Kolo-
pore's cup, and was also a member of the Canadian
team at Creedraoor in 1876 and 1880. He is a
Liberal in politics, and was elected to the Provin-
cial parliament in 1879 and again in 1883.
GIBSON, Randall Lee, senator, b. at Spring
Hill, Woodford co., Ky., 10 Sept., 1832; d. in Hot
Springs, Ark., 15 Dec, 1892. His grandfather was
a soldier, who, after the war of independence, re-
moved with liis kindred to the southwest, and
finally made his home at Oakley, Warren co., Jliss.
He built the first church, and founded the first
colfege (Jefferson) in the Mississip[)i valley. His
father, Tobias Gibson, was a large sugar-planter
in Terre Bonne parish, Louisiana. Randall was
graduated with honors at Yale in 1853, and was
also class orator. He was graduated in 1855 at
the law department of the University of Louisi-
ana (now Tulane university), of which he was for
seven years the official head, being president
of the board of administrators. He then studied
at Berlin, travelled in Russia, and spent six
months as an attache of the American legation at
Madrid. On his return he engaged in sugar-plant-
ing, until the civil war, when he joined the Con-
federate army as a private, but was made a cap-
tain in the 1st Louisiana artillery, and stationed
at Fort Jackson, below New Orleans. Not long
afterward he was elected colonel of the 13th
Louisiana infantry. At Shiloh he commanded a
brigade, which attacked the " hornet's nest " in
front, and was four times repelled with great
slaughter, but he held on, was in the front line at
sunset, and was distinguished in the fighting next
day. Gibson was with Bragg's army in the Ken-
tucky campaign, and was recommended for pro-
motion for skill and gallantry at Perry ville. where
one third of his brigade were killed or wounded,
and at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. He was in
all the battles in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's retreat
from Dalton to Atlanta, and at Jonesboro lost half
his command. In the defeat of Gen. Hood at
Nashville he successfully covered the retreat. In
Canby's campaign against Mobile, Gibson was de-
