Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Henry GIBBONS
GIBBONS, Henry, physician, was born in Wilmington. Del, Sept. 20, 1808; son of Dr. William and Rebecca (Donaldson) (Gibbons; and great, great, great-grandson of John and Margery Gibbons, members of the Society of Friends, who emigrated from Warminster in Wiltshire, England, and settled in Penn. colony in 1681. He was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1829 anal settled to practice in his native city. In 1841 he removed to Philadelphia, where he became professor of the principles and practiced of medicine in the Philadelphia college of medicine. In 1830 he removed to San Francisco. Cal., and was professor of materia medica in the Medical college of the Pacific, 1861-68, and of the principles and practice of medicine in this school and in its successor, Cooper medical college. 1868-84. During his residence in Wilmington he assisted in the organization of the Delaware academy of natural science of which he was secretary and curator for a number of years. In Philadelphia he was an active member of the Philadelphia academy of natural science, was an original member of the American medical association, and one of the founders of the Female medical college of that city. In California, besides holding minor medical and educational offices, he was one of the founders of the State medical society, of which he was twice elected president, 1857 and 1871; a vice-president of the American medical association during its session in San Francisco in 1872; one of the two delegates from California to the international medical congress held in Philadelphia in 1876, also vice president of that congress; president of the California state board of health, 1873-84; one of the founders and vice president of the Academy of natural sciences in 1853, and for a number of years he was vice-president of the California prison commission. He was an active advocate of rite temperance cause; contributed largely to the medical and temperance press; and in 1864 became editor of the Medical Press which he subsequently edited with the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal and published in San Francisco for more than twenty years. In May, 1833, he was married to Martha, daughter of William Poole of Wilmington, Del., whose ancestors, John and Jane Sharpless, emigrated from England and settled in Penn colony in 1682. He died while visiting friends in Wilmington, Del., Nov. 5, 1884.
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