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Robert Wilson Gibbes was born on July 8, 1809, in Charleston, South Carolina.
His father was William Hasell Gibbes; his mother was Mary Philp Wilson of Charleston.
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Robert Wilson Gibbes
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In 1827, Gibbes graduated from the South Carolina College at Columbia. In 1830, he received the degree of M. D. from the Medical College of the State of South Carolina at Charleston, but continued at South Carolina College until 1834, when he resigned to give his time to the practise of medicine and to his other interests.
Career
Gibbes was an assistant to Thomas Cooper in the department of chemistry, geology, and mineralogy.
Gibbes devoted himself with some enthusiasm to a variety of subjects. In 1846, he published the Memoir of James De Veaux, an interesting biographical study.
The Documentary History of the American Revolution was the result of years of painstaking collecting and editing.
In 1852, he was forced in the settlement of a debt to take over a newspaper, the South Carolinian, and a publishing business, lie retained active editorship of the paper until 1858 and continued to own it until the destruction of the plant in the fire of 1865.
Actively Democratic, the daily was the vigorous opponent of its Know-Nothing contemporary. In a political controversy, involving the reporting of the meetings of city council, Gibbes was ejected from the council chamber.
He brought suit against the mayor and city marshal, and the case was widely heralded as a test of the freedom of the press. The modest damages awarded him were claimed as a vindication of the rights of the press.
He was twice mayor of Columbia and throughout the Civil War he served as surgeon- general of South Carolina. His business interests included the ownership of the Saluda factory, a plant which manufactured cotton shirting.
The last years of Gibbes’s life were darkened by sorrow, ill health, and financial reverses, and he died a prematurely old man.
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As a physician, Gibbes gained a national reputation, and even in his earlier years acquired a certain prestige. His treatise “On Typhoid Pneumonia, as it Occurs in the Neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina”, opposing the use of the lancet in such cases, is said to have revolutionized the treatment of the disease, while Gen. Hampton is quoted as having said that Gibbes saved him $5, 000 a year in slaves. His many contributions to the best contemporary periodicals show the wide range of his interests, and are written in a style notably simple and direct in a day of literary pomposity. Several of his scientific papers were published by the Academy of Natural Sciences and in the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. His scientific collections, planned as the nucleus of a museum, included specimens of paleontology, mineralogy, conchology, and ornithology. He also possessed a remarkably fine art gallery. All these collections were destroyed in the burning of Columbia in 1865.
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A Lecture on the Magnetism of the Human Body: Delivered Before the Apprentices' Library Society of Charleston (Classic Reprint)
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Documentary History of the American Revolution, consisting of letters and papers relating to the contest for liberty, chiefly in South Carolina ... 1764-1776 (1776-1782).: II
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1764-1776
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A Lecture on the Magnetism of the Human Body: Delivered Before the Apprentices' Library Society of Charleston (Classic Reprint)
Connections
Gibbes was married on December 20, 1827, to Carolina Elizabeth Guignard. They had twelve children, nine of whom survived their parents. Four of their sons were in the active service of the Confederacy and one was a Confederate agent to England.
- Father:
- William Hasell Gibbes
- Mother:
- Mary Philip Wilson Gibbes
- Half Brother:
- Edwin Gibbes
- Half sister:
- Eliza Hasell Gibbes Wilson
- Brother:
- Washington Gibbes
- Wife:
- Caroline Elizabeth Guignard Gibbes
- Daughter:
- Mary Caroline Gibbes Thomas
- Daughter:
- Harriet Hampton Gibbes Dozier
- Daughter:
- Alice Eliza Gibbes Childs
- Son:
- William Moultrie Gibbes, Sr
- Son:
- Benjamin Taylor Gibbes
- Son:
- DeVeaux Gibbes
- Son:
- Washington Allston Gibbes
- Son:
- James Guignard Gibbes
- Son:
- Wade Hampton Gibbes
- Son:
- Thomas Hasell Gibbes
16 March 1754 - 13 February 1834
4 July 1772 - 21 April 1844
6 October 1799 - 23 June 1831
1788 - 14 May 1853
30 January 1795 - 10 July 1816
14 April 1811 - 1 February 1865
1 April 1835 - 7 September 1890
29 June 1848 - 14 May 1946
11 June 1853 - 5 October 1900
25 March 1839 - 24 March 1921
8 June 1846 - 14 March 1864
7 May 1844 - 24 July 1847
7 December 1844 - 12 September 1927
6 January 1829 - 23 April 1903
3 April 1837 - 12 June 1903
17 November 1850 - 17 February 1911
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