Gibson, George W.

“is a tiller of the soil, being native-born Missourian, his birthplace being two miles southeast of Linneus, where he was born March 1, 1837.  He has spent his whole life thus far in farming, and in Linn county.  In him is readily recognized a representative of the representative class of Missouri.  The typical Missourian is a farmer, and that, too, a farmer not wholly unambitious, but one content with his lot, who stays at home and thinks it the best place on earth.  He has long since recognized the importaqnce of combining stock-raising with the business of farming, and in raising stock his motto is, “the best is most profitable.”  He gives special attention to cattle, and now makes a specialty of the Short-Horn breed.  Mr. Givson was married to Miss Harriet A. Schrock, in Sullivan county, Missouri, October 24, 1854.  He has six children, four of whom are living.  Mr. Gibson is a member of the Browning Lodge, I.O.O.F., and both himself and wife are exemplary members of the Methodist Church.

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