Background
Gibb was born in 1829 in Forfarshire, Scotland. He left his father"s farm at the age of 14 to apprentice for four years in a draper’s shop at Montrose, Angus.
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John Gibb
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Later, he went to London and was in the largest wholesale house in that city. When the company incorporated in 1903, Gibb became president, while Mills, vice-president, moved to England to take charge of the company"s foreign business. He was for a term president of the Brooklyn Park Commission and was one of the trustees of the Y. M. C. A.
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In 1850, he became acquainted with a member of the firm of East. South. Jaffray & Company, who induced him to come to New York, where became a buyer of embroideries and white goods. Gibb was a director of the Brooklyn Trust Company, a member of the advisory council of the Thrift Savings, Loan & Building Fund, the Brooklyn Club, Long Island Historical Society, Penatquit-Corinthian Yacht, Merchants‘ Central, Hamilton and Olympic Clubs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History.
