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where he was wounded; commanded the depart- ment of the Columbia, 1885, and took measures to suppress the anti-Chinese riots; and com- manded the department of the Pacific with headquarters at San Francisco at the time of his retirement. He published: The Artillerist's Man- ual (18.59); and Oar Indian Policy for the Military Service Magazine, for which he received a pvize medal He died in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 6, 1896.

GIBBONS, Abby Hopper, philanthropist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 7, 1801; the third child of Isaac Tatem and Sarah (Tatum) Hopper; and granddaughter of Levi and Rachel (Tatem) Hopper, and of John and Sarah Tatum of Wood- bury, N.J. After teaching for a time in Phila- delphia she joined her father in New York city in 1830 to take charge of the Friends' school. On Feb 14, 1833, she was married to James Sloan Gibbons, a Philadelphia merchant, and two years later they took up their residence in New York city, where about 184.5 she became an assistant to her father in prison association work. She was active in forming the AVomen's prison asso- ciation and the Isaac T. Ho|iper home for dis- charged prisoners. She went to the front in 18G1 with her eldest daughter and they were on duty as hospital and camp nurses when the draft riots occurred in New York city in 1863. Her house was one of the first to be sacked by the mob, it having been pointed out by a street urchin as the home of Horace Greeley. At the close of the war she resumed her prison association work. She founded and for twelve years was at the head of a German industrial school for street children; establislied a Labor and Aid association for the widows and orphans of soldiers; also a Protestant infant asylum in 1871 and a Diet kitchen in 1873. Through her personal efforts police matrons were introduced into the New York city .stations and the Keformatory for women and girls of New York was established at Bedford in Westchester county. She died in New York city. Jan. 16, 1893.

GIBBONS, Henry, physician, was born in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 20, 1808; .son of Dr. William and Rebecca (Donaldson) Gibbons; and great^ grandson of John and Margery Gibbons, members of the Society of Friends, who emi- grated from Warminster in Wiltshire, England, and settled in Penn colony in 1681. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1829 and settled to practice in his native city. In 1841 he removed to Philadelphia, where he became professor of the principles and practice of medicine in the Philadelphia college of medicine. In 18.50 he removed to San Francisco, Cal., and was pro- fessor of materia medica in the Medical college of the Pacific, 1861-68, and of the principles and

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practice of medicine in this -school and in Jts successor, Coojier medical college, 1868-84. Dur- ing his residence in Wilmington he assisted in the organization of the Delaware academy of natural science of which he was secretary and curator for a number of years. In Philadelphia he was an active member of the Phila- delphia academy of natural science, was an original member of the American med- ical association, and one of the founders of the Female medical college of that city. In California, besides holding minor med- ical and educational offices, he was one of the founders of the State medical society, of which he was twice elected president, 1857 and 1871; a vice-president of the American medical association during its session in San I'rancisco in 1872; one of the two delegates from California to the international medical congress held in Philadelphia in 1876, also vice-president of that congress; president of the California state board of health, 1873-84; one of the founders and vice-president of the Academy of natural .sciences in 1853, and for a number of years he was vice- president of the California prison commission. He was an active advocate of the temperance cause; contributed largely to the medical and temperance press; and in 1864 became editor of the Medieal Press which he subsequently edited with the Pacific Medical and Snrgical Journal and published in San Francisco for more than twenty years. In May. 1833, he was married to Martha, daughter of William Poole of Wilmington, Del., whose ancestors, Jolin and Jane Sharpless, emi- grated from England and settled in Penn colony in 1082. He died while visiting friends in AVil- mington, Del., Nov. 5, 1884.

GIBBONS, Henry, physician, was born in Wilmington, Del., Sept. 24, 1840; son of Dr. Henry and Martha (Poole) Gibbons. In 1851 he removed with his parents to San Francisco, Cal., where he was graduated from the medical de- partment of the University of the Pacific in 1863. He served as acting assistant surgeon in the Douglas hospital at Washington. D.C., 1863-65, and then returned to San Francisco to practise his profession. In 1870 he was made dean and professor of materia medica in the medical de- partment of the University of the Pacific, and when this became the Cooper medical college he was retained as dean and professor of obstetrics.