Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Gibson, Charles C. 1835 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLES C. GIBSON.

    Charles C. Gibson, who is acting postmaster of Tolleston and is proprietor
of the Hotel Gibson, was born in Chicago, September 25, 1835. His father, Thomas
Gibson, was a native of Columbus, Ohio, and became a resident of Chicago in
1834, three years before the incorporation of the city. It was then but an
embryo village, and the most farsighted could not have dreamed of the marvelous
development and growth which awaited it. Thomas Gibson conducted a hotel on the
beach called the Lake House. He remained there until 1838, when he removed to
Lake county, Indiana, and here again engaged in the hotel business at what was
then known as Grass Ridge. He was one of the first settlers of that place and
kept a stage house, for there was no railroad through this part of the country
at that time and, in fact, few wagon roads had been laid out. Mr. Thomas Gibson
afterward opened a hotel one mile east of where Tolleston now stands, and he
there remained until his death, which occurred in the year 1850. His widow
afterward conducted the hotel until i860, when she opened the first hotel at
Tolleston. In 1879 she sold that property and enjoyed a well merited rest up to
the time of her death, which occurred in 1900. Mrs. Thomas Gibson bore the
maiden name of Maria Neil, and was born in Ireland, whence she came to the
United States as a maiden of thirteen summers. By her marriage she had six
children, two sons and four daughters, all of whom reached mature years, but
only three are now living, the sisters of our subject being Mrs. Elizabeth
Baird, who resides at Hunnewell, Shelby county, Missouri; and Mrs. Julia B.
Follette, who is living in Chicago.

    Charles C. Gibson, the eldest of the children and the only one now living,
was reared under the parental roof and was but three years old when brought by
his parents to Lake county. After his fathers death he assisted his mother in
the hotel business and later entered the service of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago Railroad Company, with which he was connected for about seventeen years.
He entered the service as a brakeman and was afterward promoted to the position
of conductor. He was also for a time with the Michigan Central Railroad Company
and also with the Northwestern Railroad Company, and throughout his railroad
service proved himself a most capable, efficient and faithful employe. Mr.
Gibson is also engaged in farming, having carried on agricultural pursuits in
Lake county for about six years or until 1900, when he opened Hotel Gibson, at
Tolleston. He has since conducted this hostelry and has made it one which is
creditable to the town. He has a thorough and practical training concerning the
best methods of carrying on the hotel business, and his earnest desire to please
his patrons has secured him a continuance of a liberal patronage.

    On the 2d of September, 1860, Mr. Gibson was united in marriage to Miss
Henrietta Combs, a native of Canada, who was born in Hamilton on the 18th of
September, 1844. She is a daughter of David and Eliza (Woodruff) Combs. Mrs.
Gibson was reared in Chicago, to which city she was taken by her parents in her
early girlhood days. By her marriage she has become the mother of three
children, two sons and a daughter: Walter, who follows farming in Lake county,
Indiana; Florence, who is the wife of Harry Miles, of Michigan City, Indiana;
and George, a blacksmith by trade, who is now engaged in business along that
line in California.

    Mr. Gibson has spent the greater part of his life in this county and is the
oldest living resident of his portion of the county, his connection therewith
covering sixty-seven years. He is therefore well known, and the circle of his
friendship has broadened as the circle of his acquaintance has been extended. He
is a man of many strong characteristics, and his good qualities have won for him
the regard of his fellow men. His political allegiance is given to the
Democracy, but he has never had time nor inclination to seek public office.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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