James J. Gibson 
M, (September 1844 - )
James J. Gibson was born in September 1844 at Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.1 He was the son of John Gibson and Jane B. Coryell. James J. Gibson married, at age 32, Lucy Love Updegraff, age 24, daughter of Abraham Updegraff and Maria Elizabeth Peterman, on Monday, 30 October 1876.1
From History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, by John F. Meginness, page 715.
William and James J. Gibson, sons of John and Jane B. (Coryell) Gibson, were educated at Dickinson Seminary, and Hudson River Institute at Claverack, New York, the former taking also a course in the American Business College at Springfield, Masschusetts. Returning home William was employed for two years by Edward Lippincott, a lumberman operating in Rose valley. He then became financially interested in saw mills with Mr. Lippincott for two years. He and James made their first venture in business by investing $35 each in Williamsport gas stock, and soon after William sold his interest in the saw mills. They became members of the firm of Harrison, Gibson & Company, wholesale stationary, wallpaper, and oils. They subsequently sold, and purchased W. R. Vanderbelt's interest in D. S. Andrus & Company's music store, of which James J. is manager at the present time. Soon afterward they started the Williamsport Carriage Works, and now employ about twenty-five men. In 1882 they bought D. B. Hubbard's interest in the Williamsport Furniture Company, of which William is secretary and James is president. William is a director and one of the organizers of the Williamsport Braid Company, begun in 1892; he was a director of the Williamsport Gas Company; is a director and an auditor of St. Mary's Coal Company; is a director of the Otto Chemical Company, succeeded his father as director of the Loyalsock Gap Turnpike Company, was a director of the Williamsport Bridge Company, is a director of the Lycoming National Bank, and is a director and president of the Keystone Plaster Company, at Chester, Pennsylvania, in which his brothers, James J., Charles, and John are interested, the last named being treasurer. William is also a director in the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, is one of the executors of the John A. Otto estate, and he and James J. are the executors of their father's estate. They are both Republicans and members of the Ross Club. William and his wife belong to the First Presbyterian church, and James J. and his wife are members of the Second Presbyterian church.
From History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, by John F. Meginness, page 715.
William and James J. Gibson, sons of John and Jane B. (Coryell) Gibson, were educated at Dickinson Seminary, and Hudson River Institute at Claverack, New York, the former taking also a course in the American Business College at Springfield, Masschusetts. Returning home William was employed for two years by Edward Lippincott, a lumberman operating in Rose valley. He then became financially interested in saw mills with Mr. Lippincott for two years. He and James made their first venture in business by investing $35 each in Williamsport gas stock, and soon after William sold his interest in the saw mills. They became members of the firm of Harrison, Gibson & Company, wholesale stationary, wallpaper, and oils. They subsequently sold, and purchased W. R. Vanderbelt's interest in D. S. Andrus & Company's music store, of which James J. is manager at the present time. Soon afterward they started the Williamsport Carriage Works, and now employ about twenty-five men. In 1882 they bought D. B. Hubbard's interest in the Williamsport Furniture Company, of which William is secretary and James is president. William is a director and one of the organizers of the Williamsport Braid Company, begun in 1892; he was a director of the Williamsport Gas Company; is a director and an auditor of St. Mary's Coal Company; is a director of the Otto Chemical Company, succeeded his father as director of the Loyalsock Gap Turnpike Company, was a director of the Williamsport Bridge Company, is a director of the Lycoming National Bank, and is a director and president of the Keystone Plaster Company, at Chester, Pennsylvania, in which his brothers, James J., Charles, and John are interested, the last named being treasurer. William is also a director in the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, is one of the executors of the John A. Otto estate, and he and James J. are the executors of their father's estate. They are both Republicans and members of the Ross Club. William and his wife belong to the First Presbyterian church, and James J. and his wife are members of the Second Presbyterian church.
Children of James J. Gibson and Lucy Love Updegraff
- Abraham U. Gibson (Nov 1878 - )
- Elizabeth Gibson (Feb 1884 - )
Last Edited=17 Dec 2008
Citations
- [S14] John F Meginness, History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (Baltimore, Maryland: prepared by Lycoming Historical Society; Gateway Press, Inc., 1990 reprint of 1892 original), p. 714.