Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Gibson, Andrew J.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Upper Makefield Township


   ANDREW J. GIBSON farmer, P.O. Brownsburg, was born in 
Plumstead township, Bucks county, June 15, 1836, and is a 
son of Andrew and Nancy (Ruckman) Gibson, natives of Bucks 
county and of Irish and English descent. The ancestors of 
the Gibson family came from Ireland in the seventeenth 
century and settled in Plumstead township, Bucks county, 
where they took up a large tract of land. The grandfather, 
James Gibson, lived and died in Plumstead township, his 
occupation being that of a farmer. The father of Andrew J. 
was also a resident of Plumstead township and a farmer. He 
had seven children, four of whom are still living: Andrew 
J., William H., Nancy R. and Isabella.  Andrew J. was reared 
on a farm, receiving a fair education in the common schools 
of the neighborhood. He has always followed farming, with 
the exception of a few years during which he was engaged as 
a traveling salesman for a publishing house, at which 
occupation he was quite successful. He was a resident of 
Plumstead township until 1876, when he sold out and removed 
to Newtown, where he resided one year. He removed to his 
present residence in 1881, and purchased the farm. In 1876 
he married Jennie M. Vanartsdalen, by whom he has two 
children, Nellie and Mary J.  Mr. and Mrs. Gibson are 
members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Gibson is 
intelligent and progressive, and possesses good business 
qualities.