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NAME GIBBONS 435 GIBBONS medicine at the Medical College of South Carolina (Charleston) in 1830; and in 1834, having severed his connection with the South Carolina College, entered on practice in the city of Columbia, Where he established a large clientage, which in later years he turned over to his son, Robert Wilson. Dr. Gibbes was often selected as delegate to the American Medical Association, and for several years Was president of the Medical Association of South Carolina. He had a genius for scien- tific pursuits and published papers in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences; in the second volume of the Smith- sonian Contributions, and in other journals. He made very large and precious collections of autographs, coins and specimens in paleontology, geology, mineralogy and con- chology, and his collection of fossils of South Carolina was important, as illustrative of the tertiary formation. He devoted m'uch atten- tion to the subject of ornithology. Apart from his medical and scientific papers. Dr. Gibbes made other publications of value, including a "Documentary History of the American Revolution" (three volumes, 1853) ; a "Memoir of DeVeaux," a young South Carolina artist of promise, and a volume entitled "Cuba for Invalids" (1860). In 1852-60 he edited the Daily South Carolinian. During the Civil War Dr. Gibbes was surgeon-general of South Carolina, and twice held the office of mayor of Columbia. He married Caroline Elizabeth Guignard and left a large family. His son. Dr. Robert Wilson, became a doctor in Columbia, South Carolina, also his grand- son, Dr. Robert Waller Gibbes, practised in the same city. The following is a partial list of the societies in which he held membership : American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science, New York Historical Society, Pennsylvania His- torical Society, Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, of Copenhagen, Academy jf Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Robert Wilson, Jr. Gibbons, Henry (1808-1884) Henry Gibbons, physician, lecturer and reformer, was born in Wilmington, Delaware, September 20, 1808, where his father, William Gibbons, was a practising physician. His mother was Rebbecca Donaldson ; his grand- father was James Gibbons, teacher of lan- guages in the Friends' Academy, Philadel- phia, before the Revolution, and his ancestor, John Gibbons, followed William Penn and bought a large tract in what is now Chester County, Pennsylvania. William Gibbons graduated at the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1805 with a thesis on "Hypochondriasis"; he sent his son to his alma mater to be educated in medicine and to graduate in 1829 with a thesis on "Varioloid." Returning to Wilmington, Henry practised with his father until 1844 when he moved to Philadelphia. In 1847-48 he held the chair of the institutes of medicine in the Philadelphia College of Medicine; he was one of the incorporators of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia (1850). In 1850 he went to live in San Francisco, California, where soon after opening his office he was consulted by a miner who dropped an ounce of gold dust on his table for a fee. He co-operated with Elias S. Cooper (q. v.) in founding the California Medical Society, the beginning of the state association, and served as its president in 1857 and, again, in 1871. He continued to be associated with Cooper and accepted the chair of materia medica and therapeutics in the first medical school on the Pacific coast, reorganized in 1882 with the name of Cooper Medical Col- lege. He was a member of the California State Board of Health from its establish- ment until his death. Gibbons was interested in botany and in meteorology and was a good lecturer on sci- entific and moral subjects; he won a prize with an essay, "Tobacco and Its Effects," 48 pp.. New York, 1868. In 1864 he became co-editor of the Medical Press, later merged with the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal with which he was con- nected until 1883. For several years he was a member of the State Prison Commission. He married Martha Poole ; their son was Henry Gibbons (q. v.), himself a physician. For the eight years previous to his death the father was in ill health. In the autumn of 1884 he visited his old home in Wilming- ton and died there, November 5, 1884. Pacific Med. & Surg. Jour., L. C. Lane, 1885, vol. xxviii, 49-66. Phys. and Surfjs. of the United States, W. B. Atkinson, 1878. Standard History of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia, F. P. Henry, 1897. Appleton's Cyclop. Amer. Biog., N. Y., 1887. Gibbons, Henry (1840-1911) Henry Gibbons, son of Henry Gibbons (1808-1884) (q. v.), was born in Wilmington, Delaware, September 24, 1840; his mother was Martha Poole. His parents moved to San Francisco while he was a boy and his early education was had in the public and private schools of that city. He received an M. D.