Biography of Albert G. Gipson - Conway Co, AR

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        Date: 21 Jun 1998
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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas.
Goodspeed Publishers, 1891.

page 68

Albert G. Gipson, a former lawyer and well-known citizen of Springfield, but now
a resident of his farm three miles south of that town, owes his nativity to
Cabell County, Virginia born 1845, a son of Ezra B. and Martha C (Adams) Gipson,
the former of whom was born in Cabell County, about 1826, and the latter in
Bouttort County, Virginia, in 1829. In 1846 they emigrated from Virginia to Pike
County, Missouri, where they resided till 1878, when they removed to Prairie
County, Ark, where they still reside both being prominent members of the
Methodist Church. Mr. Gipson is a farmer by occupation, and a son of Burl
Gipson, who was also a native of Cabell County, Va., where he was killed during
the war. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and was of Scotch ancestry.
Frank Adams, the maternal grandfather of A. G. Gipson, died in Virginia. Mr.
Gipson is the eldest of a family of four sons and one daughter. He was reared to
farm life and educated at the Missouri Collegiate Institute, at Louisiana, Mo.
Two or three years of the best part of his life was spent in the defense of the
stars and stripes, being a member of Company B, Thirteenth Indiana Cavalry,
which operated in the Trans-Mississppi department the first year, and after that
the army of Tennessee, participating in the battles of Shiloh, Chickamauga,
Resaca, Nashville, etc. He was once captured at Morganton, but made his escape
about eighteen hours after. After the war he taught school for about twelve
years both in Missouri and Arkansas, in connection with other duties. He began
the study of law soon after the war at Louisiana, Mo., and in 1873 was admitted
to the bar and practiced his profession in Missouri till 1878, when he came to
Conway County, where he continued his practice with his usual ability and
success. While yet a resident of Missouri, Mr. Gipson married Miss Shavy Shaner,
a daughter of Francis P. and Estella Shaner, who were natives of Missouri, and
died in Cape Girardeau County, that State, where Mrs. Gipson was born. When he
came to Conway County, Mr. Gipson located at Springfield, where he was engaged
in the drug business, and during the Garfield administration was Postmaster at
that place. He is a prominent member of the G. A. R., holding the position of
Adjutant of Napier Post, at Centre Ridge. He and Mrs. Gipson are consistent
members of the Methodist Church.