McDuffie COUNTY, GA  BIOS   Isaac A. Gibson

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Isaac A. Gibson, principal, high school, Thomson, McDuffie,
Co., Ga., son of Dr. Cicero and Mary H. (Adkins) Gibson, was
born on the old family plantation in Warren county, Ga., June
30, 1861. He was the sixth of nine children (eight sons and one
daughter) six of whom survive. Raised on the plantation, Prof.
Gibson received during his boyhood and youth only such
schooling as could be obtained at the country common school.
Ambitious of a higher education, when he was eighteen years of
age he taught school a term of months to earn the money to help
him through college. He then entered Emory college, Oxford,
Ga., and at the end of three years graduated with the degree of
A.B. Three years later his alma mater paid him the
distinguished compliment of conferring upon him the degree of
A.M. – an honor he very highly appreciates. After graduating he
taught school a year to earn the money wherewith to pay for
further literary and scientific advancement. He then went to
Louisville, Ky., where he first graduated from Woody’s school
in microscopy and chemistry, and then attended a course at the
medical college of Kentucky. Having, by this time, depleted his
exchequer, he came home and taught school another year, and
then attended Atlanta Medical college, from which he graduated
in 1885. Returning to Warren county, he resumed his vocation in
the room where he first taught, and remained there three years,
gaining valuable experience and professional reputation. Six
years ago he came to Thomson, where he is now principal of the
high school, and where he has continuously added to his
reputation and extended his influence. So assiduous has he been
in the discharge of his duties, and so solicitous for the moral
and intellectual elevation of those entrusted to his care, that
it is claimed for him by the citizens of Thomson that he has
done more good in helping young and old to obtain an education
than all the schools for miles around – testimony that any one
might be proud of. Prof. Gibson was married Feb. 25, 1886, to
Miss Mamie L., daughter of William Gross, of McDuffie county,
by whom he has had two children – a son, seven years and a
daughter, five years old. The professor is a royal arch Mason,
and an exemplary member of the Methodist church. His valuable
services are highly appreciated by the people of the prosperous
little city and county, so that his continuance in his present
position will depend on his own choice.

Source - Memoirs of Georgia, Vol. II, Atlanta, Ga., page 493
Published by The Southern Historical Association in 1895