Samuel J. Gibson

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Samuel J. Gibson

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Samuel J. GIBSON, who has served as street commissioner of the town of Dover, New Jersey, for the past three years, was born at Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1881, son of James E. and Lydia (HINKEL) GIBSON, natives of the old Keystone Commonwealth; the father is an iron worker by occupation and their family consists of six children.

To the public schools of Dover, Mr. GIBSON is indebted for his preliminary educational training. At the age of thirteen years he entered upon an apprenticeship to learn the trade of printer, and as that business is a liberal education in itself he managed to pick up a vast amount of useful knowledge on a number of subjects. He followed newspaper work as a printer for three years, and in 1896 entered the employ of the Ulster Iron Works, at Dover, in which concern he was a roller for eight years. At the present time (1913) he is most successfully engaged in the conduct of his duties as street commissioner, to which office he was appointed in 1910. He owns a staunch allegiance to the principles of the Republican party, but is in no sense a seeker after the emoluments of public office. Fraternally he is a member of the K. of M., of Acacia Lodge No. 20, F. and A. M., and the Captain D. D. Mitchell Camp, Spanish-American War Veterans of Newark. Mr. GIBSON and his father gave patriotic service as soldiers in the Spanish-American War. They enlisted in Company M., Second New Jersey Volunteers, the father being the oldest man in the company and the son the youngest. Mr. GIBSON is a man of reliable personality, and he commands the unqualified esteem of his fellow citizens by reason of his honorable and straightforward career. He is progressive in all that the word implies and is contributing largely toward the upbuilding of the city of Dover, having erected several residential properties and is pushing forward constantly, accomplishing all this unaided, therefore being worthy of the title, a self-made man.

Mr. GIBSON married, in November, 1904, Amanda Wilcox, daughter of Nathan R. and Mary Jane (GOBLE) WILCOX, the former of whom was born at Sparta, New Jersey, and the latter at Andover, and they were the parents of two daughters:

Amanda, aforementioned, and
Eva, wife of Jacob FRITZ, of East Orange, New Jersey.

This biography was transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003).