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George Gibbs was the son of Col. George and Laura (Wolcott) Gibbs, and the brother of Oliver Wolcott Gibbs. He was born on July 17, 1815, at Sunswick, near Astoria, Long Island.
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George Gibbs was the son of Col. George and Laura (Wolcott) Gibbs, and the brother of Oliver Wolcott Gibbs. He was born on July 17, 1815, at Sunswick, near Astoria, Long Island.
Gibbs received his early education at the Round Hill School at Northampton, Massachussets, then conducted by George Bancroft, the historian. Lacking the necessary political favor he was unable to enter West Point and at seventeen was taken by an aunt to Europe for two years of study and travel. Returning to America he entered Harvard in 1834 and began the study of law. In the same year he published at Cambridge The Judicial Chronicle, a list of the judges of the common law and chancery in England and America. He graduated from Harvard in 1838.
Gibbs then entered the law office of Prescott Hall in New York, but his interests were never in the law and he practiced only enough to secure a simple livelihood. His interest in politics led him to a study of the career of his grandfather, Oliver Wolcott, former secretary of the treasury, and of the period in which he lived, and in 1846 he published in two volumes the Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. In his editorial contribution there was no effort made to conceal his bias against the Republicans. The Memoirs consist chiefly of letters to and from Wolcott and are of great importance for the history of the Federalist party and of early American politics. With the discovery of gold in California in 1848 Gibbs's spirit was fired. He gave up the law and marched overland with the Mounted Rifles from St. Louis to Oregon, settling at Columbia. His activity in Whig politics secured him the collectorship of the port of Astoria during the administration of President Fillmore; later he settled upon a ranch in Washington Territory near Fort Steilacoom, where he devoted himself to the study of the languages and traditions of the Northwest Indians. During a long period he was attached to the United States Government Commission as geologist in laying the Northwest boundary, and in 1857, as a member of the Northwest boundary survey, he contributed a lengthy report on the natural history and geology of the region. When he returned to New York in 1860 he intended remaining only a few months, but with the outbreak of the war he volunteered his services to the North. His health prevented his serving in the army, but he became an important member of the Loyal National League and of the Loyal Publication Society. During the latter part of his life he lived in Washington, D. C. , where his extensive knowledge of the northwest Indians was often employed by the Smithsonian Institution. With J. G. Shea he translated Marie Charles Pandosy's Grammar and Dictionary of the Yakama Language (London, 1862), and in 1863 he published three contributions to the study of the Indian languages: Alphabetical Vocabularies of the Clallam and the Lummi; Alphabetical Vocabulary of the Chinook Language; and A Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon. During the same year he prepared for the Smithsonian Institution, under whose auspices his other contributions had been made possible, his Instructions for Research Relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America, and three years later he gave them his Notes on the Tinneh or Chepewyan Indians of British and Russian America (1867). Gibbs died in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 9, 1873.
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Gibbs's interest in politics led him to a study of the career of his grandfather, Oliver Wolcott, former secretary of the treasury, and of the period in which he lived, and in 1846, he published in two volumes the Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. Gibbs confessed that he “felt himself not only the vindicator, but in some sort the avenger of a bygone party and a buried race” and in his editorial contribution there was no effort made to conceal his bias against the Republicans.
The Memoirs consist chiefly of letters to and from Wolcott and are of great importance for the history of the Federalist party and of early American politics.
Gibbs was a member of the Loyal National League and of the Loyal Publication Society.
In 1871, Gibbs married Mary Kane Gibbs, his cousin, and moved to New Haven, Connecticut.