Bio of GIBIAN, Felix H. (b.1882), Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical

FELIX H. GIBIAN - Vol III, pg 741-742
Felix H. Gibian, secretary and comptroller of Maurice L. Rothschild & Company,
is one of the progressive business men of Minneapolis. Born in Chemnitz,
Germany, September 15, 1882, he is the oldest son of Ludwig and Helene (Rudorf)
Gibian. The father was born in Bohemia and educated there, making a brilliant
record at the University of Prague. He achieved prominence in Germany as a civil
engineer and the inventor of several devices in applied engineering. He died at
Mainz, Germany, in 1915, in his sixty-fourth year. The mother was born in
Dresden, a daughter of Hermann Rudorf, chief forester of the kingdom of Saxony.
She died in 1883, aged thirty-one years.
Felix H. Gibian received his education in the higher public schools of Germany.
He spent two and a half years as a commercial apprentice in a large business
house of Mainz. At the end of that time he went to Italy, where he spent a year
in travel and the study and teaching of languages. Returning to Germany, he
entered the University of Leipsic, specializing in philosophy, economics and
commercial law. He spent one year in the German army. As soon as his military
obligations permitted he came to the United States, in 1905. He made his home at
first with his uncle, Karl Rudorf, in California, returning later to Chicago and
New York. During this period he was employed as an accountant, for several years
as a public accountant in Chicago.
In 1909 Mr. Gibian married Anna Mary Murphy of Chicago, a teacher in the public
schools and daughter of Francis Murphy, a prominent civil engineer and a pioneer
settler of Chicago. In 1910 Mr. Gibian became associated with the Chicago house
of Maurice L. Rothschild & Company and a year later was transferred to the
Minneapolis store, of which he is now comptroller and secretary. Mr. Gibian owns
a pleasant home in the lake district of Minneapolis. He has two sons: Francis
Murphy, twelve years of age; and Karl Felix, aged ten, to whom he devotes most
of his spare time, encouraging their taste for mechanics and electricity and
sharing their athletic sports.
Mr. Gibian is a man of unbending integrity and sound judgment and he discharges
the many duties devolving upon him in a manner to command the respect of all. He
follows an independent course in politics, giving his support to the man he
thinks best fitted for office, regardless of party affiliations. He declared his
intention of becoming an American citizen in 1907 and received his final papers
in 1913. During the World war he offered himself as a member of the Civilian
Auxiliary and assisted in the various campaigns for the selling of Liberty
bonds. He is public-spirited and well versed on all the important questions and
issues of the day. His early religious training was that of the Lutheran faith.
He is a member of the Commonwealth Club, the Golden Valley Golf Club and the
Minneapolis Automobile Club. He is a man of intellectual attainments, interested
in art, literature and history, and he is acquiring an extensive library in his
home.