Alexander Gibson (industrialist)
Alexander Boss Gibson was an industrialist in New Brunswick, Canada. His business interests included sawmills, railways, and a cotton mill. He founded the company town of Marysville, New Brunswick.
Alexander Gibson was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick onAugust 1820. He was the first of seven children born to John Gibson and his wife Mary Jane Johnson, who had immigrated to Canada from Ireland in 1818, accompanied by John Gibsons parents, Alexander Gibson Sr. and Janet Moore, brothers James and Stuart, and sister Margaret.146 During Alexander Gibsons childhood in the 1820s the family lived in a log house and farmed six acres of land. The grandparents seem both to have been born in Scotland, but all of the children were of Irish birth. Unlike the waves of poor Irish who were beginning to land in the Maritimes , Gibsons grandfather seems not to have been poor, as he speculated modestly in land in St. Andrews until bout 1825, when he applied for and was granted a 60acre tract of farmland in Oak Bay, near St. Stephen, selling two 20acre lots and reserving the easternmost portion for his own family. John Gibson, the Bosss father, is given as shoemaker on his sons baptismal record,
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