Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar
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Name (Latin)
Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar
Date of birth
1823-04-17
Date of death
1915-07-11
Associated country
United States
Occupation
Abolitionists
Businesspeople
Consuls
Judges
Politicians
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed January 29, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar; abolitionist, entrepreneur, political figure; born 17 April 1823 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; a teenager he attended the Philomathean Institute, a black men's literary society; established a clothing and dry goods store in San Francisco; purchased and became an editor of the Mirror of the Times (1855); opened another store in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; director of the Queen Charlotte Island Anthracite Coal Company in Canada; formal course in law at a business school in Oberlin, Ohio; appointed county attorney in Little Rock, Arkansas; municipal judge of Little Rock (1873), presidential elector for Arkansas (1876); secretary of the Republican state central committee (1887-1897); register of the U.S. Land Office for the Little Rock District of Arkansas (1877); U.S. consul to Tamatave, Madagascar (1898-1901); published Shadow and Light, an Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century; president of the city's Capital City Savings Bank (1903); partner in the Little Rock Electric Light Company; member of the National Negro Business League; died 11 July 1915 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States)
- African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014:(Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar; businessman, abolitionist, entrepreneur, political figure; born 17 April 1823 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; established a clothing and dry goods store in San Francisco (1850); speculated in real estate, became the director of the Queen Charlotte Island Anthracite Coal Company, and built a wharf and railroad spur to transport coal Canada; elected to the first of two terms as a member of Victoria's Common Council (1866); returned to the United States to complete a formal course in law at a business school in Oberlin, Ohio; won election as municipal judge of Little Rock (1873); presidential elector for Arkansas (1876) and secretary of the Republican State Central Committee (1887-1897); appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as register of the U.S. Land Office for the Little Rock District of Arkansas (1877); U.S. consul to Tamatave, Madagascar (1898-1901); active member of the National Negro Business League; died 11 July 1915 in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States)
- His Shadow and light, 1902:t.p. (Mifflin Wistar Gibbs)
- LC in OCLC, 6/25/93(hdg.: Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar)
- Shadow and light, c1995:CIP t.p. (Mifflin Wistar Gibbs) galley (d. 07/11/1915, Little Rock, Ark.) data sheet (b. 04/17/1823)