Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-12-10
DR., GIBBONS DEATH.
ESQ ot An .vssrruL CAREER.
Native nt Lancaster County aDoIitionist
eud Temperance Agitator-Mombrr
tn i'teJary Family Editor
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DIR. Joseph Gibbons was found dead In
bed at his residence near Bird In Hand, on
sunday morning, In tho Goth yoar of his
az. lie appeared to be in the bcsJ of
health ou Saturday; spout the day ~
LNuCastor, was moro than usually cheerful,
aud to several friends said no mover
iult better Ia his life. lilo re
turned to his homo In the evening.
rotir,d tu bod at his usual hour, aud uoJ
getting up 10 breakfast his daughter Fan
ny went to his room to call him, and 10
coiving 40 answer enter, Il and found him
dead. NJ other member ui tho family
was home at the time, his wife and
daughters, Caroline and Marianua, being
IN Philadolphh and his son, Daniel, in
Wilmington. IL is supposed that Dr.. Glib
bUus' death was caused 10y apOplcNy,
aud that he drnd but short timu before
his daughter entered his room, rs she
heard hIn, breathing EGayiY an hour Pre-
vious.
Hts funeral will take place on Tuesday
afternoon At 2 o'clock. The intermout
will be wade At the friends burying ground
at SmOkUtOwn.
An EvontmI Lie.
DE-. Gibbons WAS one of the best known
ci,lz3us OF the county. His (aco aud Il igurc
as he visited the city almost daily of late
years He was the son OF Daniel aud
Hannah WeIman Gibbons, and was born
at the homestead, granted to his great
grandfather by the Penus, whore lie died,
near Bitd-ir-Haud, on August IAN,
1878. His two brothers died In their in
fancy. lie attended the suhoo!a uf Joshua
Hopes aud Jluathau Cause, iu Chester
| county, aud his iuhTItel extreme anti
slavery ideas strengthened with his asso
Citations aud education. The difficulty In
walking that attended him during later
years he ascrihcd to a midnight run with
fugitive slaves when ho was only l6 years
! Of age At 81 he connected himself with q
| temperance society and advocated Tadicl
| notions ON this subject TO the day Of hi,
! death. II was his boast that he had
| never tasted liquor nor tobacco, attended
| the theatre, played cards, nor read q novel
| lie WAS warm friend ut the free schoo
! system, accompanied tho first county su.
| poiOtendeut ia his travels AMI one Of the
earliest county Institutes was hcld at hi
house lie was Frees1icr in ~ at
tended the state convention of that part,
aud remained Ia its Tauks until II wa
merged in tho Republican party. lie wa
an earnest campaign speaker, an actIv,
| politician and remained a radical Republi
| can to his death
DR.. Gibbons read medicine in the oiio
of DR.. FrlUCjs $. Burrows, was graduate,
from Jefferson medical college In lS4j
and prac,iced for over five years. From
1861 TO 1885 he was in the Philadelphia
custom house. In 1872 ho established au,
has since published The Journal, pap,
devoted to the interest Of the (Hicksite
| Friends.
Ia 1915 he VAS married 10 PLebe
eldest daughter of Thomas Earle, tn
famous auti slavery lawyer and cludldat
for vice president on the Liberal ticket 4
1910, headed by James G.. Biruey. Til
distinguished lawyer Geo. II Earle, q
Phi'adelphia, is her brother, Richard /
White is a brother IN law, aud her mother
Mrs. Earlc, Still survives aud is au gydeu
Democrat. Mrs. Phnbe Earle Gibbons
well known rs tho author of "Penusylva
MIA Dutch and other essays, numeruu
sketches and books of foreign travel,
Their daughters, Misses Caroline au
MaTianra, are in Philadelphia, wbUr
they have achieved success ia litcgar
work Ffancis has music store in tn
city, and the sou Daniel, graduate froI
+. and VI. college, is in the Pusey Joue
company ship building cs'Oblisbmon
! Wilmington, Del.