LEE GIBSON
Lee Gibson, one of the prominent business men of Atlantic, is a native of Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa, and was born in 1847. His father, H. D. Gibson, removed with his family to Knoxville, Marion county, where he lived until 1871. He was in the mercantile business, but during the rebellion his services were given to his country, and he was major of the Thirty-third Iowa, serving through the war. He was appointed Indian commissioner, and stationed in the far northwest. He died at Olympia, Washington Territory, August 9, 1874. In 1871, Lee removed to Monroe, Jasper county, where he carried on the grain business for eight years, at the end of that time coming to Atlantic, where he has since remained. On coming to this city, he engaged in the grocery business, at which he was very successful, for four years; he then commenced his present business. He is extensively engaged in the real estate, insurance and loan business, loaning his own money. He is also a notary public. Mr. Gibson was married April 2, 1868, to Albina Foster. She was born in Missouri, but was reared and educated in Ohio. Her father was a well-to-do farmer. They have one child, whose name is J. Belle. Mr. Gibson has been successful in every business enterprise in which he has ever been engaged. Besides his Atlantic interest, he has a large property in Marion county, besides possessions in Jasper county. He is a member of the I. O. O. F.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 866-867.
