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grandson of Randall and Harriet (McKinley) Gib- eon. Randall Gibson was an American soldier in the war of the Revolution, who settled after the war at Oakley, Warren county, Miss., and built the first cliurch and founded Jefferson college, the first college in the Mississippi valley. Ran- dall Lee was prepared for college lit Le.xing- ton, Ky.. anil at Terre Bonne, La., where his father had a sugar l)lantation,and he was gi-aduated at Yale in 18o3, valedictorian of his class. He was graduated LL. B. at the University of Louisiana in 1855; travelled in Europe, and while there de- clined the secretary- sliip of the Spanish legation; and in 18G0 was an aide-de-camp on the stall of Governor Moore of Louisiana, in which state he liad settled as a planter. From the gov- ernor's stalf he passed to the Confederate army, serving in the army of the Tennessee under Gener- als Hood, S.D.Lee,Breckini-idge, Johnston, Hardee aad Dick Taylor, as colonel of the 13th Louisiana, brigadier-general in command of Adams's bri- gaL'.e. and major-general. He led his lirigade in a charge at Shiloli, won promotion at Perryville, and fouglit gallantly at Murfi-eesboro, Chicka- mauga, Atlanta, Nashville and in defence of Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala. At the close of the war he practised law in New Orleans, and was elected to the 45th congress, but was not allowed to take his seat. He represented the first dis- trict of Louisiana in the 44th-47th congresses, 1873-83, and was a senator in congress from Louisiana, 1868-93. In the senate he was chair- man of the committee on manufactures and a member of the committees on agriculture and forestry, commerce, interstate commerce, naval affairs, fisheries, District of Columbia, transpor- tation routes to the seaboard and the select com- mittees to establish the University of the United States and of the Quadro-Centennial. He was elected jiresident of the board of administration of the Tulane university of Louisiana, founded by a gift of §1,500,000 from Paul Tulane; an ad- ministrator of the Howard memorial library of New Orleans, trustee of the Peabody education fund and regent of the Smithsonian institution. He was married to Mary, daughter of R. W. Montgomery of New Orleans. La. Senator Gib- son was obliged m 1803 to seek relief from con- tinued ill health and he died at Hot Springs, Avk.. Dec. 15, 1893.

GIBSON, Robert Atkinson, bishop coadjutor of Virginia and 184th in succession in the Ameri- can episcopate, was born in Petersburg, Va.. July 9, 1846; son of the Rev. Churchill J. and Lucy Fitzhugh (Atkinson ) Gibson; grandson of Patrick and Elizabeth (McMurdo) Gibson, and of Robert and Mary (Mayo) Atkinson; and a descendant of Gov. Richard Bennet, who came to Virginia in 1039. He was graduatetl at Hampden Sidney college in 1867 and at the theological seminary, Virginia, in 1870. He was a missionaiy in a dis- trict of Virginia extending over five coimties, 1870-73; was assistant minister at St. James's church, Riclimoud, Va., 1873-78, and rector of Trinity church, Parkersburg, W.Va., 1878-87, and of Christ church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1887-97. He was elected bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Virginia, June 30, 1897, to succeed assistant Bishop Jolm Brockenborough Newton, deceased, and he was consecrated Nov. 3, 1897, in Holy Trinity chui'ch, Richmond, Va., by Bishops Whittle, Peterkin and Randolph, assisted by Bishops Penick, Thompson, and Vincent, the ser- mon being preached by Bishop Thompson.

GIBSON, Robert Williams, architect, was born in A\'eley, Essex, England, Nov. 17, 1854; son of Samuel Lodwick antl Eliza Gibson; grand- son of William Gibson, and a descendant of Gib- sons of Essex and Devonshire, England. He attended a private school in Gravesend and after- ward completed a course at the Royal Academy of Ai'ts ill Loudon, England, in 1879, winning the silver medal and the travelling studentship, and the art certificate of the Royal institute of Brit- ish architects. In 1881 he immigrated to the United States and established himself in Albany, becoming a citizen of the United States in due time. In 1888 he removed to New York city. He was the architect of St. Paul's cathedral. Buffalo, N.Y., when re- built after fire; ■ ■"^•"^ '"^'>' ^"Rk of All Saints ^^^^"'^<' "^^ cathedral, Al- bany, N. Y.; of the U.S. Trust com-

pany's build- ing, New York city; the New York clearing house; the New York botanical museum; the

New York cof-

fee exchange,

and many banks, office buildings and churches in various places. He was elected president of the Architectural league of New York; a director of the American institute of architects; a member

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