BIOGRAPHY: Granville M. GIBBONEY, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, page 596.

  GRANVILLE M. GIBBONEY, Reedsville, Mifflin county, Pa., was born on the 
Gibboney homestead, near Belleville, Mifflin county, August 7, 1847, and is a 
son of Albert and Peninna (Morrison) Gibboney.  Their children were as follows:  
Howard Eugene, married Mary Steely, has two children;  Elizabeth Alexander (Mrs. 
George Cogley), has ten children;  Granville M.;  Edward, died when about eight 
years old;  William Morrison, married Charlotte Strayer, has three children;  
Charles Bowers, married Jenny Brindle;  Samuel Rush, druggist, of Salina, Kan., 
married a lady from Vermont;  Albert Victor, died aged about five years;  Katie 
Morrison, died when about four years of age;  and Thomas Sherman, married Maggie 
Fultz.  Mr. Albert Gibboney died April 2, 1887, aged sixty-seven years, seven 
months and seven days.  The wife and mother still survives, at a venerable age, 
having seen nearly three-fourths of a century of this world's life.
  After attending the common schools of the township during his boyhood, 
Granville M. Gibboney, at the age of nineteen, began to learn the business of a 
dyer and finisher, in which occupation he continued until 1894.  For twenty-six 
years he was employed by his uncle, Harrison H. Gibboney.  During part of the 
time he was a partner in the firm of A. R. Gibboney & Company, which was a very 
successful business house.  In the spring of 1894 Mr. Gibboney came to 
Reedsville, and since his residence here, has conducted a hardware and house-
furnishing establishment which is abundantly and judiciously stocked, doing a 
thriving business.  Mr. Gibboney is a Republican, and active in local politics;  
has served several years as school director, besides filling other township 
offices.
  Granville M. Gibboney was married February 10, 1870, to Marion Cordelia Bell.  
Their children are:  Anna, who died in early infancy, March 3, 1871;  Albert 
Schaffer;  Clarence H.;  and Laura May.  The family attend the Lutheran church.