Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . ^. i/YkMu^n^iA COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 309 On ?.ray 27, 1867, Mr. Gibson was married toMrs. Sarah Dewing, widow of Dr. HezekiahDewing-, daughter of Allen and Orra (Park) Ham-mond, and sister of A. Park Hammond, secretaryand treasurer of the New England ManufacturingCompany, of Rockville. A sketch of her father ap-pears elsewhere. Mrs. Gibson was born Sept. 19,1829, in V^ernon, Conn., and
Commemorative biographical record of Tolland and Windham counties, Connecticut : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families . ^. i/YkMu^n^iA COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD 309 On ?.ray 27, 1867, Mr. Gibson was married toMrs. Sarah Dewing, widow of Dr. HezekiahDewing-, daughter of Allen and Orra (Park) Ham-mond, and sister of A. Park Hammond, secretaryand treasurer of the New England ManufacturingCompany, of Rockville. A sketch of her father ap-pears elsewhere. Mrs. Gibson was born Sept. 19,1829, in V^ernon, Conn., and was brought to Rock-ville when a child. She attended school in Rock-ville. had a brief course at Westfield Academy, inWestfield, ^lass., was for two terms a student atMrs. Bangs Select School, in Springfield, and com-pleted her schooling at Miss Campbells School, inthe same city. Allen Hammond, her father, hadbeen a school teacher when a young man, andstrongly approved of his daughter teaching school,which he deemed a grand experience for anyone;she taught one term in the school house which stoodon the site of the Henry block, and a number ofher pupils became promine
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