GIBBENS, (Captain) Thomas C.; Henderson Cty., KY., then St. Landry Parish,
Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller


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CAPTAIN THOMAS C. GIBBENS, WASHINGTON.--Captain Thomas C. Gibbens, a large
saw-mill owner and planter, is a native of Henderson, Kentucky, born in the
year 1831.  He is a son of William B. and Elizabeth (Hathaway) Gibbens, both
natives of Kentucky.  His father was a mechanic, and was for many years
engaged in the manufacture of implements.  He removed to Louisiana in the year
1830, and died at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1849, at the age of about forty-
four years.  His mother died in 1886, aged sixty-five years.

Captain Gibbens was chiefly reared and educated in Louisiana.  He began life
as an engineer in sugar mills, and subsequently was engaged in steamboating on
the Teche.  In the year 1855 he began the operation of a saw-mill at Port
Vincent, Louisiana, in which he engaged until the war.  He married in 1860,
Miss Agnes Scivique the accomplished daughter of Vincent and Celestes Briniact
[sic], of Livingston parish, Louisiana.  Captain Gibbens was exempt from war
service owing to disablement from a broken limb, consequently did not enlist
in the service.  The captain's family have nearly all been of a mechanical
turn of mind, and he exhibits a remarkable tendency in this direction.  He is
now chief engineer in a large sugar manufacturing establishment at Washington.
He is the father of one child, Lizzie, the wife of James Nicholson, who is a
partner with Captain Gibbens in his saw-mill interests.

Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical, Biographical Section, pp.
43-44.  Edited by William Henry Perrin.  Published in 1891, by The Gulf
Publishing Company.