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DANIEL CLIFTON GIBSON
An enterprising, progressive and
very successful rancher is Daniel Clifton Gibson, who was born at Clyde, Wayne
County, New York, on September 1, 1870, the son of Daniel Gibson, a native of
Vermont who removed to New York and later married Miss Maria Hosler, who was born at Montreal, of English
parentage. They were favored with six
children, all of whom are living today:
Mary, the wife of Newton Mahaffey, of Stockton; Daniel C., the subject
of this review; Fannie, Mrs. Fred Mathews; Alice, Mrs. Edward Cotton; Margaret,
Mrs. Canning; and Mrs. Louise Trickler, of New
York. The father was a stonemason by
trade.
Dan Gibson, as he is familiarly
called by his friends, attended the Wayne County schools, and when twenty-one
left home to come to California. Arriving
here in 1891, he settled in San Joaquin County.
Later he went to Comanche, California, and mined for some seven years,
and then he returned to San Joaquin County and located at Clements, where he
was for three years in the service of Chrisman & Clements, merchants. While clerking he rendered himself popular
because of his efficiency and his willingness to accommodate. There he joined the Modern Woodmen of
America; he is a past consul of the lodge at Clements, and has filled all the
chairs.
At Clements, on May 19, 1902, Mr.
Gibson married Miss Nora Mehrten, the daughter of
Daniel and Mary (Poppe) Mehrten. Daniel Mehrten came
to California in early days and followed mining at Comanche. He married Mary Poppe,
a native of New York, who crossed the plains with her parents, Bernard and
Elizabeth Poppe, when she was a girl. Mr. Poppe located a claim on the Mokelumne
River, near Mackville Corners, and there set out the
first commercial orchard in these parts.
He died at eighty-four, and his wife at seventy-six. Mrs. Mehrten
inherited the Poppe place and resided there until she
died in July, 1910, at the age of seventy-one.
Mr. Mehrten also died while living near
Clements. They had eight children: Mrs. Lizzie Barton, of Berkeley; Henry,
deceased; Mrs. Annie Simpson of Wheatland; Daniel, residing near Clements;
George, deceased; John, residing near Clements; Charles, at Comanche; and Nora,
Mrs. Gibson, of this sketch. She
inherited 107-1/2 acres of the old Poppe place, and
there the family makes their home. Mr.
and Mrs. Gibson have four children:
Clyde; Mary, Mrs. William Classen, of Lockeford; and Florence and Olive. Mr. Gibson is a Democrat.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1474-1475. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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