Except for his early years and the three years in Europe, Gibbs spent his whole life living in the same house which his father had built only a short distance from the school Gibbs had attended, the College at which he had studied and the University where he worked the whole of his life. Crowther, in, sums up his life as follows:
Maliban para sa kanyang unang bahagi ng taon at ang tatlong taon sa Europa, Gibbs nagastos sa kanyang buong buhay nakatira sa parehong bahay na kung saan ang kanyang ama ay binuo lamang ng isang maikling layo mula sa paaralan Gibbs ay nag-aral, ang College at kung saan siya ay may-aral at sa University kung saan siya nagtrabaho ng buong ng kanyang buhay. Crowther, sa, sums up ng kanyang buhay bilang mga sumusunod: