Gibson family.
Family
Found in 2 Collections and/or records:
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Gibson-Getty-McClure Families Papers
Identifier: MSS22681
Abstract
Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, military papers, and miscellany relating to various members of these allied families from the area of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Includes correspondence of General George Gibson (d. 1861) and the jurist John Bannister Gibson (1780-1853) and papers, 1777-1854, relating to the Revolutionary War service of their father, Colonel George Gibson (1747-1791); papers of George Washington Getty (1819-1901) and members of his family relating primarily to...
Dates
1777-1926; Majority of material found within 1880-1901
Collection
Found in:
Manuscript Division
Truman K. Gibson Papers
Identifier: MSS83215
Abstract
Lawyer, business executive, and boxing promoter. Correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, printed matter, photographs, and other papers reflecting the social life of the Gibson family in Chicago, Illinois. Also included in the papers is Gibson's correspondence with his wife, Isabelle Carson Gibson, written while he served as an adviser on African-American affairs to the United States War Department in Washington, D.C., during World War II.
Dates
circa 1900-1994; Majority of material found within ( 1940-1956)