MIAMI COUNTY OHIO
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File contributed for use in the Ohio Biographies Project by:
Billy J. Baker
billybak@erols.com
April 15, 2000
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William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
was first published in 1883 by A. T. Andreas, Chicago, IL.

Shawnee County --

W. B. GIBSON, M. D., was born at Piqua, Miami Co., Ohio, February 14,
1838, that place remaining his home until the spring of 1860. He
graduated from the Ohio Medical College in the class of 1860 and located
at Morrison's Bluff, near Clarkville, Ark., where he remained from
April, 1860, to April, 1861. He then returned to his native town and
entered the army as contract surgeon about a month later. During the
summer of 1862 he was post surgeon at Camp Piqua, and subsequently
served as assistant surgeon of the Ninety-fourth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, being on detached service in the hospitals of the Cumberland
until July, 1863, when he rejoined his regiment, of which he was
commissioned surgeon in September, 1863. In August, 1864, he was
commissioned surgeon of the First Brigade, First Division, Fourteenth
Army Corps.  Made the march to the sea with Sherman's army and was
finally discharged in June, 1865. In October of the same year he
emigrated to Kansas and remained at Leavenworth until the spring of 1866
when he located at Springdale, Leavenworth County, and resided there
until May, 1873, at which time he removed to Topeka, his present home.
Dr. Gibson has been coroner of Shawnee County since January, 1876; also
member of the Board of Education since 1877, chairman of the committee
on teachers; also served as chairman of the building committee since
1879; and secretary of the board of Pension Examiners since 1878. He was
married in October, 1865, to Ada M. BARLOW, a native of Dayton, Ohio,
and a resident of Piqua from the age of ten years. They have two
children--Bessie S., born June 23, 1871, and Fred D., born November 21,
1874. Dr. Gibson is a member of the State and Eastern District Medical
Society; and also of the A. F. & A. M., and is surgeon in the G. A. R.