A. C. Gibson

Jamestown Press
Jamestown [Boone Co.] Indiana
Friday 15 January, 1904 page 2

A. C. Gibson

A. C. GIBSON was born in Jamestown, December 3, 1855. He was present at the time but has no recollection as to what occurred for sometime after the event. But as soon as he was able to go on two legs about the first thing he did was to run away from home and he kept this up for nearly forty years running west to Utah territory, thence all over the Pacific coast into the gold mines of Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Washington territory, Oregon and California and south to Tennessee and Georgia and Alabama, southwest to Kansas and the Indian Territory and northwest to Minnesota and North Dakota and finally landing in the little village of Chicago, Illinois where he was employed in the freight office of the Chicago & Alton railroad. Leaving the last named town he came back and located in the city of Jamestown where he began his present career five years ago. About all the religion he has consists of paying his honest debts just when he agrees to and not the day or week thereafter, and never turning his back on a man who says he is broke or hungry; and giving sixteen ounces to the pound and one hundred cents worth for the dollar. Politically he leans to the republican party but no party has a brass band around his neck or owns him. No one but himself is allowed to fix his ticket. Come to his store and he will tell you the rest.

Transcribed by: Janet ISLEY Price: "I am not related to this subject. A photo of Mr. A. C. GIBSON has been submitted with this article."