GIBSON
GIBSON
tCayAM^lisj^ ytlf-^o
grandson of Randall and Harriet (McKinley) Gib-
eon. Randall Gibson was an American soldier in
the war of the Revolution, who settled after the
war at Oakley, Warren county, Miss., and built
the first cliurch and founded Jefferson college,
the first college in the Mississippi valley. Ran-
dall Lee was prepared
for college lit Le.xing-
ton, Ky.. anil at Terre
Bonne, La., where his
father had a sugar
l)lantation,and he was
gi-aduated at Yale in
18o3, valedictorian of
his class. He was
graduated LL. B. at
the University of
Louisiana in 1855;
travelled in Europe,
and while there de-
clined the secretary-
sliip of the Spanish
legation; and in 18G0 was an aide-de-camp on the
stall of Governor Moore of Louisiana, in which
state he liad settled as a planter. From the gov-
ernor's stalf he passed to the Confederate army,
serving in the army of the Tennessee under Gener-
als Hood, S.D.Lee,Breckini-idge, Johnston, Hardee
aad Dick Taylor, as colonel of the 13th Louisiana,
brigadier-general in command of Adams's bri-
gaL'.e. and major-general. He led his lirigade in
a charge at Shiloli, won promotion at Perryville,
and fouglit gallantly at Murfi-eesboro, Chicka-
mauga, Atlanta, Nashville and in defence of
Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala. At the close of the
war he practised law in New Orleans, and was
elected to the 45th congress, but was not allowed
to take his seat. He represented the first dis-
trict of Louisiana in the 44th-47th congresses,
1873-83, and was a senator in congress from
Louisiana, 1868-93. In the senate he was chair-
man of the committee on manufactures and a
member of the committees on agriculture and
forestry, commerce, interstate commerce, naval
affairs, fisheries, District of Columbia, transpor-
tation routes to the seaboard and the select com-
mittees to establish the University of the United
States and of the Quadro-Centennial. He was
elected jiresident of the board of administration
of the Tulane university of Louisiana, founded
by a gift of §1,500,000 from Paul Tulane; an ad-
ministrator of the Howard memorial library of
New Orleans, trustee of the Peabody education
fund and regent of the Smithsonian institution.
He was married to Mary, daughter of R. W.
Montgomery of New Orleans. La. Senator Gib-
son was obliged m 1803 to seek relief from con-
tinued ill health and he died at Hot Springs,
Avk.. Dec. 15, 1893.
GIBSON, Robert Atkinson, bishop coadjutor
of Virginia and 184th in succession in the Ameri-
can episcopate, was born in Petersburg, Va.. July
9, 1846; son of the Rev. Churchill J. and Lucy
Fitzhugh (Atkinson ) Gibson; grandson of Patrick
and Elizabeth (McMurdo) Gibson, and of Robert
and Mary (Mayo) Atkinson; and a descendant of
Gov. Richard Bennet, who came to Virginia
in 1039. He was graduatetl at Hampden Sidney
college in 1867 and at the theological seminary,
Virginia, in 1870. He was a missionaiy in a dis-
trict of Virginia extending over five coimties,
1870-73; was assistant minister at St. James's
church, Riclimoud, Va., 1873-78, and rector of
Trinity church, Parkersburg, W.Va., 1878-87, and
of Christ church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1887-97. He
was elected bishop coadjutor of the diocese of
Virginia, June 30, 1897, to succeed assistant
Bishop Jolm Brockenborough Newton, deceased,
and he was consecrated Nov. 3, 1897, in Holy
Trinity chui'ch, Richmond, Va., by Bishops
Whittle, Peterkin and Randolph, assisted by
Bishops Penick, Thompson, and Vincent, the ser-
mon being preached by Bishop Thompson.
GIBSON, Robert Williams, architect, was born in A\'eley, Essex, England, Nov. 17, 1854; son of Samuel Lodwick antl Eliza Gibson; grand- son of William Gibson, and a descendant of Gib- sons of Essex and Devonshire, England. He attended a private school in Gravesend and after- ward completed a course at the Royal Academy of Ai'ts ill Loudon, England, in 1879, winning the silver medal and the travelling studentship, and the art certificate of the Royal institute of Brit- ish architects. In 1881 he immigrated to the United States and established himself in Albany, becoming a citizen of the United States in due time. In 1888 he removed to New York city. He was the architect of St. Paul's cathedral. Buffalo, N.Y., when re- built after fire; ■ ■"^•"^ '"^'>' ^"Rk of All Saints ^^^^"'^<' "^^ cathedral, Al- bany, N. Y.; of the U.S. Trust com-
pany's build- ing, New York city; the New York clearing house; the New York botanical museum; the
New York cof-
fee exchange,
and many banks, office buildings and churches in various places. He was elected president of the Architectural league of New York; a director of the American institute of architects; a member
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