New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-19
Dgiru OF JAMES s1oIy GIBBONS.

James Sloan Gibbons we'll known before the war
&C an aboliuorit leader and later as banker IN this
city, and writer upon financial subjects di'l sun
div NJ the age OF eichtv.two years He had been In
falling health FOR several years Tic immediate cause
OF death was homorri ace OF the lungs. Mr. Gibbons
was born In wilmington, Delaware. In 1910. As a
Young man lie went 10 Philadelphia and became a
successful dry goods merchant IN 1893 no married
Abigail Hopper daughter Of the phi'anthropst isaac
T. HOPPER OF Philadelphia In 1885 TO came TO New.
York and engaged IN banking. From his earliest
years lie was interested in all charitable aud plhan-
tniopic movements. lydia Maria Clhds. In Fer
&" etters from Ncv-York" speals Of man VINO FRO
o,entIy went down 10 Five Points with basket con-
ta,nng food medicine clothing etc, wich he would
distribute 10 the poor. Tho pane Is not mentioned
but the man was James g. Gibbons. Mr. Gibbons
naturally sympatlized strongly with The leaders Of
the anti.slavery movement and took prominent part
In the agitation which finally led 70 The freeing Of
the negroes lie was AN Intimate friend Of Garrison
Wendell Philips Theodore Parker, Ehmund quincy
Horace Greeley, and other prominent aboliuonlsts.
AT the time Of President L,ncoln's Emancipation
Proclamation. in Ise3. Mr.. Gibbons lived az 10 10
Lamartine Place. lie illuminated bis house IN honor
Of the proclamation and for tails II attacked by the
mob In Tho draft riots and sacked Mr.. Gibbons mar
rowly escaping with lis He. During MS financial
career he was cashier and Of the founders OF the
ocean Bank, founder OF tie Broadway Bank, ana
q frequent contributor 70 "Ihc BanRers Magazine
and the Cdlly papers. Ir was t.4e hub.S4 Va WV
well known works. entitled "Thc Banks OF New
York Their Dealers, the ClcarlOg House and the
Panic OF 1857" and "Tlc Public Debt OF the United
States It's OrganltlOn It's Equidaiion and the fnan
cjal system" lie also the author Of TIE famous
war poem, awe arc coming, Father Abraham three
hundred thousand more lie retired from active
business nearly twenty years ago. but kept his hoId
on affairs by taking charge Of the stock OF TIE Yer
mont Marble Works. Vt Derby. Vt. He started the
movement 10 preserve tho forests, which became
National and resulted in the now familiar EXERCISES
Of Arbor Day. He kept weather record Tor many
wears taking observations five times day. These
observations he sent tho Smith sOnlan Institution at
Washinr IN. and they regarded as the most nc
curate and valuable taken during Ia" period. several
Important law suits have been settled By appeal 10
them,
lie kept a Journal throughout the stirring times
preceding tho war, which was destroyed when his
house was sachcd. His last years have been spent
mainly in rewriting the happenings Of that time, and
I'm other literary work, none OF which lie has pull
llslcd lie leaves widow and two married daughters.
Mrs. Gibbons shared her husbands aims and tastes.
She was Que OF the founders nj the WOmcn's Prison
ASSOCIATION, and during thu war performed a great
service I'm the field and in the hospital. she was .
lifelong friend OF Horace Greeley, and he used fire.
aucnty visit her house. The eldest daughter i
Ralph Waldo Emerson and with her mother, lives n!
No. 20 West FOrty-scvcnulsh The other daughter
Is Mrs. james H. Morse. OF No. 42:i Madison ave.
Three sons and one daughter have died. The burial
will be IN Greenwood Cemetery, at the convenience
NJ the fauilV.