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, Thomas George (b. 1858) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Upshur County West Virginia From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by W. B. Cutright Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907 Page 456 THOMAS GEORGE GIBSON, born March 9, 1858, in Baltimore County, Md., son of Thomas Gibson and Mary A. Major, whose father was a native of Ireland. The subject of this sketch came to Barbour County in 1898, as a railroad contractor and foreman. Was contractor of that branch of the B. & O. R. R. from Lemley Junction to Century, was also contractor on the Cincinnati and Ohio R. R. in Boone County, West Virginia. Foreman on the Electric road from Fairmont to Clarksburg, just completed. His first wife was Marcena Perell, of Maryland, daughter of Samuel Perell and their children are: Mary Margaret, born 1884, now a resident of Baltimore City; Janie Elizabeth, born 1887, now a resident of Baltimore. His first wife died in 1880 in Maryland. His second wife was Lucy Rohr, daughter of Henry M., Rohr and Jennie Lance of Upshur County, and their children are: Charles Rex, born 1903; Beautis, born 1906. ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Upshur County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/upshur/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------