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Theodore Kane Gibbs

U.S. Army

Centurion, 1884–1909

Proposed by
Thomas B. Coddington and Mr. Nash (may refer to John McL. Nash or Stephen P. Nash)
born December 25, 1840
Newport, Rhode Island
died January 16, 1909
Pasadena, California
elected December 6, 1884
Age forty-three
Member portrait of Theodore Kane Gibbs

Archivist’s Notes

Cousin of Wolcott Gibbs

Century Memorial

Theodore Kane Gibbs was a member here for a quarter of a century. He was born in Rhode Island sixty-six years ago, the son of a governor of his state; and of late years he had been a foremost citizen of Newport. He served throughout the Civil War as soldier and officer, being twice promoted for gallantry in battle. But the most of his riper years were spent in New York, where his home was a social centre and his life rich in commercial and public activities. Such eminence as he had was unsought, but he shrank from no duty thrust upon him, and they were many. He was eminently a man of the Centurion type, modest, genial, comprehensive in his interests, and pleasant in his ways.

William Milligan Sloane
1910 Century Association Yearbook

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