Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Gibson, Silas W 1842 - 
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Author: History Grundy County 1882

Silas W. Gibson, farmer, P. O. Mazon. S. W. Gibson was born in Saratoga 
County, N. Y., February 24, 1842, and came to Grundy County, Ill., with his 
parents when less than one year old. He attended the first school organized in 
Mazon Township, in the old Fuller Schoolhouse, Constance Hulse and Lafayette 
Doud being among the first teachers. He is a the second of a family of four 
children of Robert C. and Elizabeth (Largent) Gibson. His father was born in 
the Green Mountains of Vermont, in 1811, and died in Morris May 10, 1882. The 
mother was a native of Ohio, and died in Grundy County March 29, 1867. Our 
subject was married, October 2, 1866, to Miss Clarissa C. Lattimer, daughter 
of Silas and Mary Lattimer. She was born in Indianapolis, Ind., November 22, 
1848. They have a family of four children - Orrel B., born November 27, 1867; 
Robert S. G., December 20, 1869; Burton I.; Clara E.; Mr. GIBSON enlisted in 
Company I, Sixty-ninth Illinois, and served three months, then enlisted in 100-
day service in Company H, One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Illinois Regiment; was 
detailed on garrison duty, principally in Missouri and Kansas. He is a 
Republican, a member of the I. O. O. F. and one of the leading farmers of 
Grundy County. He owns the old Robert Gibson farm, consisting of 300 acres in 
Sections 10 and 11; his residence is three and a half miles northeast from 
Mazon. He is engaged in stock-raising and general husbandry. Mrs. Gibson's 
parents are living in Felix Township, Grundy County.

Additional Comments:
Source: History of Grundy County, Illinois. (1882) Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co. 
Historical Publishers.

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