Joshua Gibbons    

Joshua Gibbons, now living in Bridgeport, but retired from active life, has been a resident of the county for seventy years, of which fully sixty years have been spent by him in educational employment, teaching every year except when serving as county superintendent of schools, which office he filled for four terms of three years each, commencing as the first superintendent of the county, under the school law of 1850. Two of his sons, James W. and Henry, are also successful teachers. Another son, Rev. H. O. Gibbons, is pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and a daughter married the Rev. Robert Fulton, of Baltimore, Md. This digression is thought to be excusable in making honorable mention of a man who has labored as long and faithfully in the cause of education as has the veteran teacher and school officer, Joshua Gibbons, of Bridgeport.

History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1882, page 481. View the image of this page online - Free Trial  More Fayette County History Books  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com

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