Biography: Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin: Mary C. Gibson ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, August 2004 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Mary C. Gibson, farming; P.O. Banner; owns 160 acres of well-improved land. She was born in Montgomery Co., N.Y., in 1826; while she was a child, her parents, Christopher and Henrietta Carpenter, moved to St. Lawrence Co., N.Y. She was twice married, first in Onondago Co., N.Y. to Chauncey A. Greenman, now deceased; by the above marriage there was one child- William J. Greenman, now of Bremer Co., Iowa. In 1854, she came to Wisconsin, and in 1861, married her second husband, Russel D. Gibson, a native of Vermont, who had settled in Fond du Lac Co., Wis., in about 1852; he died Nov. 2, 1866. By this marriage, there is one child- Ella M. Mrs. Gibson oversees all work done on her farm, and is very successful in her management of it, and is a most exemplary woman. Transcribed from The History of Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin Chicago : Western Historical Company, 1880 pg. 978