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    John Gibson

    Birth: 1822

    Death: unknown

    Birth Date Prefix: Circa.

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Biography

John Gibson lived in Albany, New York, with his (inferred) wife, Mary Gibson. John had a large shop in Albany for manufacturing planing machines and a planing mill. John Gibson along with Samuel Schenck and Samuel Pitts, bought the patent for the Woodworth planer from William Woodworth, for $5,000. These men licensed a certain number of machines and gave each mill owner the right for a given amount of territory for which they charged a royalty. By the time the patent expired, Gisbon is supposed to have been worth $1,000,000 and was able to get a renewal. William Henry Seward represented John Gibson in at least one of the challenges to his patent rights. On December 1, 1856, however, Congress rejected his attempts to renew the patent. Gibson was forced to sell out his business to Daniel Doncaster. He retired to a farm owned by Mary Gibson. and died there poor.

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Biography: 
John Gibson lived in Albany, New York, with his (inferred) wife, Mary Gibson. John had a large shop in Albany for manufacturing planing machines and a planing mill. John Gibson along with Samuel Schenck and Samuel Pitts, bought the patent for the Woodworth planer from William Woodworth, for $5,000. These men licensed a certain number of machines and gave each mill owner the right for a given amount of territory for which they charged a royalty. By the time the patent expired, Gisbon is supposed to have been worth $1,000,000 and was able to get a renewal. William Henry Seward represented John Gibson in at least one of the challenges to his patent rights. On December 1, 1856, however, Congress rejected his attempts to renew the patent. Gibson was forced to sell out his business to Daniel Doncaster. He retired to a farm owned by Mary Gibson. and died there poor.
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https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Cje5648&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&qh=doljXDzDrLHruDHjjRg4uA%3D%3D&db=1850usfedcenancestry&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=john&gsfn_x=1&gsln=gibson&gsln_x=1&msrpn__ftp=Albany,
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Ancestry.com
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Citation Notes: 
1850 Census: Year: 1850; Census Place: Albany Ward 7, Albany, New York; Roll: M432_472; Page: 262B; Image: 18
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Citation Type: 
Website
Citation URL: 
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/48/650/
Title of Webpage: 
Barnard v. Gibson, 48 U.S. 650 (1849)
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Book or Monograph Title: 
Scientific American
Publisher Location: 
New York
Publisher Name: 
Munn & Co
Year: 
September 20, 1851
Start Page: 
295
End Page: 
295
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Website
Citation URL: 
https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Cje5656&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&qh=jLvTnm6BIxsfHGWINsoU/A%3D%3D&gss=angs-g&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=john&gsfn_x=1&gsln=gibson&gsln_x=1&msbdy_x=1&msbdp=2&msbdy=1822&mssng=mary&mssng_x=1&catbuc
Title of Webpage: 
Ancestry.com
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 10:00
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Citation Notes: 
Ancestry.com. New York, State Census, 1855 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: Census of the state of New York, for 1855. Microfilm. Various County Clerk Offices, New York. The 1880 census lists his birth year as 1823: https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=2044694&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7163 Year: 1880; Census Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York; Roll: 844; Page: 279C; Enumeration District: 057 The 1850 census lists it as 1820: https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc=Cje5648&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&indiv=1&qh=doljXDzDrLHruDHjjRg4uA%3D%3D&db=1850usfedcenancestry&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&msT=1&gsfn=john&gsfn_x=1&gsln=gibson&gsln_x=1&msrpn__ftp=Albany,%20Albany,%20New%20York,%20USA&msrpn=10034&msrpn_x=1&msrpn__ftp_x=1&MSAV=1&uidh=if4&pcat=35&fh=2&h=12290263&recoff=&ml_rpos=3 Year: 1850; Census Place: Albany Ward 7, Albany, New York; Roll: M432_472; Page: 262B; Image: 18
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Lives until at least 1880. https://search.ancestrylibrary.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=2044694&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=7163 Year: 1880; Census Place: Brooklyn, Kings, New York; Roll: 844; Page: 279C; Enumeration District: 057