Background
Gibson, Joseph Thompson was born on February 13, 1844 in Jefferson Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Andrew and Jane (McSparren) Gibson.
Gibson, Joseph Thompson was born on February 13, 1844 in Jefferson Company, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Andrew and Jane (McSparren) Gibson.
Bachelor of Arts, Washington and Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, 1869. Graduate Western Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1872. (Doctor of Divinity, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, 1893, Washington and Jefferson College, 1895).
Sergt. 78th Pennsylvania Infantry, 1861-1864. Was in battles of Missionary Ridge, Stone River, Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, et cetera Wounded at battle of New Hope Church, near Atlanta, Georgia.
Superintendent public schools, Indiana Company, Pennsylvania, 1869-1871.
Ordained Presbyterian ministry, 1872. Pastor Govanstown, Maryland., 1872-1880, Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, 1880-1887.
Secretary Synodical Sustentation Presbyterian Church, 1887-1890. Secretary and treasurer Board of Missions for Freedmen, 1884-1894.
Editor Presbyterian Messenger, 1894-1898.
Associate editor Presbyterian Banner, 1898-1899, editor same, since 1917, and president of the Presbyterian Banner Public Company Acting pastor of the East Liberty Church, Pennsylvania, 1901. Trustee Western Theological Seminary, Grove City College, Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh.
Member Chickamauga National Military Park Common for Pennsylvania, 1894-1899.
Married Isabel B. Brown, May 21, 1872.