U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gibson, David Joseph (1846-1931) --------------------------------------------------------------------- A History of Preston County West Virginia Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914 by H. S. Whetsell Pages 675-676, DAVID JOSEPH GIBSON. David Joseph Gibson, son of Joseph H. and Jane E. Gibson, was born in Cumberland, Maryland, October 21, 1846. When a year old his father removed to the Willett farm one mile east of Brandonville, Preston County, Virginia now West Virginia, where he entered into the mercantile business. He received his education in the best select schools that period afforded. One of his early recollections of school life was when he attended a select school taught by Harriet E. Gans in the Quaker Meeting House, which was located east of Brandonville about one and a half miles. In the interim his father removed to Brandonville, where they in 1865 entered into the mercantile business in the Ridenour Hotel property in which they continued until the year 1870, when he and his father removed to what is now known as St. Joe, one half mile above Albright, Preston County, where they entered into co-partnership with Jos. B. Cressler in the manufacture of lumber. On the 28th day of October, 1869, he was married to Clara C. Cressler of Shippensburg, Pa., to which union two children were born, both of which died in infancy. In the year 1873 he was appointed Deputy Sheriff by Elisha Thomas, then Sheriff for the east side, which office he filled for four years. At the expiration of his term of office (1877), he removed to Newburg, Preston County, where he entered into the mercantile business with his brother-in-law, L. M. Albright in which town he resided for 27 years. During this period he filled the office of Deputy Sheriff for Lyon District under Elisha Thomas' second term as Sheriff, with various city and district offices. In the year 1905, he removed to Kingwood, West Virginia, erecting a dwelling on Beverly Hill, where he now resides. Politically, his antecedents were Republican, but for the past 25 years he has affiliated with the Prohibition party, believing that the greatest question before the American people is the abolition of the legalized saloon. Was twice nominated as a candidate for Congress for the Second Congressional District on the Prohibition ticket and once an elector at large. Religiously, he belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church, filling various offices therein. For twenty years in succession he filled the office of Sunday School Superintendent in Newburg. In the year 1905 he was one of the promoters in the organization of the First National Bank of Newburg at the organization of which he was elected a director and its Vice-President, which position he still occupies. He was made a Mason in Preston Lodge No. 14, in the year 1868. Is also a member of Copestone Chapter Royal Arch Masons of Grafton, West Virginia; DeMolay Commandery N. 12 Knights Templar of Grafton, West Virginia, and Damon Lodge No. 5. Knights of Pythias, Newburg, West Virginia. --------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Preston County, WV #11020 FULL-NAME: David J. Gibson BIRTH-DATE: October 21, 1846 BIRTH-PLACE: Cumberland, Md DEATH-DATE: August 1, 1931 DEATH-PLACE: Kingwood, Kingwood District, Preston County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: Widowed OCCUPATION: Retired Merchant FATHER: Joseph H. Gibson (born in Cuberland, Md) MOTHER: Jane E. Gibson (born in Carlise, Penn) CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Mitral regurgitation and chronic nephritis INFORMANT: Mr. & Mrs. L. M. Albright (of Kingwood, W.Va.) BURIAL: Maplewood Cemetery --------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Preston County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/preston/bios.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------