Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Gibson, George Raymond 1884 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

GEORGE RAYMOND GIBSON.

George Raymond Gibson, a well known and enterprising young business man of
Ottumwa, has for the past three years held the position of manager in the
wholesale fruit house of the Lagomarcino-Grupe Company. His birth occurred in
York, Nebraska, on the 1st of November, 1884, his parents being Lewis and Flora
(Dietch) Gibson, the former born near Ottawa, Illinois, in 1857 and the latter
in Warren county, Illinois, in 1864. Lewis Gibson, an agriculturist by
occupation, came to Wapello county, Iowa, in 1885 and made his home in Ottumwa
until 1894, when he took up his abode on a farm in Center township, where he has
since resided, being widely recognized as one of the substantial and esteemed
citizens of the community. He is the father of three children, as follows:
George Raymond, of this review; Mabel, the wife of John Howard of Ottumwa; and
Lois, at home.

The paternal grandfather of our subject is a surviving veteran of the Mexican
war. Captain John Gibson, the great-grandfather, was a soldier in the War of
1812, while his eldest son, Robert, was killed at the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas,
in 1838. His four other sons fought in the Mexican war, serving in the First and
Second Illinois Volunteers, and two served as officers in the Civil war, William
Gibson holding the rank of colonel of the Fourth Illinois Infantry and Theodore
that of major of the Sixty-fourth Illinois Infantry. George Gibson, a brother of
Captain John Gibson, was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition and
subsequently settled in St. Louis, where he passed away. The great-great-grand
father of George Raymond Gibson in the maternal line was Robert Yates a Scotch
army officer, who participated in the Revolutionary war as an officer in a
Pennsylvania regiment. The grandfather still lives near Ottawa, Illinois, on a
farm of three hundred and twenty acres, one hundred and sixty acres having been
granted him by the government at the close of the Mexican war. He also obtained
another quarter section of land from a Mexican war soldier who sold out. He is
now ninety years of age and still resides on the place where his father died and
was buried.

George Raymond Gibson acquired his education in the public schools of Ottumwa
and after putting aside his text-books was connected with railroad work as a
telegrapher from 1902 until 1910. In the latter year he became identified with
the Lagomarcino-Grupe Company as a salesman and for the past three years has
acted as manager of the Ottumwa branch, where twenty-one men are employed. This
is a wholesale house exclusively, handling both fruit and vegetables and also
manufacturing ice cream. In his present important position Mr. Gibson is
contributing in no uncertain degree to the continued growth and success of the
business and has gained enviable recognition as a progressive young man of sound
judgment, ability and enterprise.

On the 20th of June, 1906, Mr. Gibson was united in marriage to Miss Minta
McIntire, a native of Davis county, Iowa, and a daughter of J. M and Ruth
(Anderson) McIntire, who are now living in Ottumwa. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson have
four children, namely: George Hamilton, Lois Ruth, Esther Fern and Robert Theodore.

In politics Mr. Gibson is a progressive republican, while his religious faith is
that of the Congregational church. Fraternally he is identified with the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. He is widely
and favorably known in the community where practically his entire life has been
spent, for a genial and kindly disposition has won him many friends, and he has
the regard and esteem of all with whom business or social relations have brought
him in contact.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914



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