"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
JACKSON TOWNSHIP AND MORGANTOWN
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WILLIAM THOMAS GIBSON, merchant at Morgantown, was born March 8, 1862, in
Greene County, Tenn., and is the second of the nine children of Charles and
Sarah E. (Kelton) Gibson, the former a native of Tennessee, the latter of
Virginia, and both of English descent, who first moved to Franklin, Ind.;
remained two years, and then to Nashville, Ind., where they now reside.
William Thomas remained at home until he was twenty years of age, at which
period he came to Morgantown and engaged in his present enterprise, first as
a grocery trade to which he has added dry goods and notions, of which he has
always a full line and carries a $3,000 stock. He has a good practical
education and is a first-class business man, having begun business with $10
cash capital. September 21, 1881, he married Miss Amanda, daughter of Col.
W. S. Adams (deceased), a long resident of Morgantown. Mr. Gibson is a
member of the Masonic fraternity; inclined to the Republican party
politically, and is a promising young merchant. Mrs. Gibson is a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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