Background
Gibbes, Robert Wilson was born on July 8, 1809 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of William Hassell and Mary (Wilson) Gibbes.
Gibbes, Robert Wilson was born on July 8, 1809 in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Son of William Hassell and Mary (Wilson) Gibbes.
Graduate South Carolina. College, Charleston, 1827. Doctor of Medicine South Carolina.
Medical College, 1830.
Assistant professor of chemistry, geology and mineralogy South Carolina. College, 1827-1835; wrote article “On Typhoid Pneumonia, as it Occurs in the Neighborhood of Columbia, South Carolina.,” (revolutionized treatment of the disease), 1842. Took over, edited The South Carolinian (Democratic paper), 1852-1858.
Edited Weekly Banner, 1852-1860.
Mayor Charleston, 2 terms. Surgeon general South Carolina. during Civil War.
Owned Saluda factory manufacturing cotton shirting. Author: Monograph on Fossil Squalidae.
Memoir on Monosaures and the Three Allied New Genera, 1849.
Documentary History of the American Revolution, 3 volumes, 1853-1857.
Married Carolina Guignard, December 20, 1827, 12 children.