Tuolumne County Biographies

DR. W. P. GIBBONS

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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Was born in Wilmington, Delaware, April 19, 1812.  At the age of twelve he 
entered a printing office to learn type setting, where he remained for three 
years.  Subsequently he was connected with the Franklin Type Foundry, one of the 
largest establishments of the kind in the United States.
Leaving the foundry, he went into business for himself, but failing health 
obliged him to give it up.  After living on a farm for two years, he 
sufficiently recovered his health to take charge of a young ladies seminary in 
Poughkeepsie, New York.  His health again failing, the Doctor came to 
California, practicing medicine in San Francisco, having graduated in that 
branch in 1847, at the University of New York.
San Francisco�s cool climate not agreeing with him, he removed to Tuolumne 
County in 1857, with headquarters at Colombia.  Dr. Gibbons practiced here 
successfully for thirteen years, changing his residence, at the end of that 
period, to Alameda, where he has since remained, being one of the prominent 
medical men of that place.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� B.F. Alley, 1882.  Pg. 420.