Biography of: Dr. Henry M. Gilson McCracken County, Kentucky Source; Biographical Sketches from, "Kentucky, History of the State" Main Author; William Henry Perrin 1887 **************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net. Submitted by: Vera Burnham Date: May 11, 2002 **************************************************************************** Dr. Henry M. Gilson was born in Danville, Vt. in 1837; was there reared and educated until he was seventeen years old, when his parents, Lewis and Ann E. (Peck) Gilson removed to Kentucky and settled in Ballard County. Mr.Gilson there studied medicine under Dr. Stovall and Dr. Joseph Thompson; took one course of lectures in Nashville, Tenn. and in 1863, entered the University of Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, where he graduated in the early Part of 1864. He took a second course however in 1864-65. He began the practice of medicine in Ballard County, but removed to Paducah in 1866, where for two years he practiced in connection with Dr. J. Thompson. In 1868 he was compelled by loss of health to abandon the practice and the following year he embarked in the drug business in which he is still engaged and in which he has been attended with good sucess. Dr Gilson is a man whose word ia as good as his bond. He is an honored member of the Masonic fraternity, I.O.O.F. and for several years has been president of the German National Bank at Paducah, He was married in Paducah in 1865 to Miss Eliza J. Hobbs, daughter of Jo Sam Hobbs, and has two children, Edward H.and Mary Lizzie Gilson.