Yeoman Gibson, c.1880
Description
- Creator
- Unknown, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- A black and white portrait photograph of Yeoman Gibson.
- Notes
- Yeoman Gibson was born at Ebberston, Yorkshire, England, on March 21, 1828 and came to Whitby, Canada in 1847. He started as a clerk and bookkeeper and went into the grocery business in 1857. He was a strong supporter of the Methodist Church and gave a silver communion set to the Whitby church in 1854. He was secretary of the building committee for the Methodist Tabernacle in 1875 and secretary of the church for many years. He was a member of the town council from 1863 to 1866, Reeve from 1876-1877 and Warden of Ontario County in 1877. He died at Whitby, Canada on December 28, 1894 and is buried at Salem Cemetery, Kinsale.
- Date of Original
- c.1880
- Dimensions
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Width: 3.5
Height: 4
- Image Dimensions
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Image Width: 3.5
Image Height: 4
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 31-009-015
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian copyright law. No restrictions on use.
- Reproduction Notes
- Scanned from a copy negative.
- Contact
- Whitby Public LibraryEmail:archives@whitbylibrary.ca
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