San Joaquin County Biographies
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Transcribed by: Linda Diane Jackson 1/13/2010
DANIEL CLIFTON GIBSON
An enterprising, progressive and very successful rancher is Daniel Clifton Gibson, who was born at Clyde, Wayne County, N.Y., 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, Cal., 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 107½ acres of the old Poppe place, and there the family make 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.
History of
SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY
CALIFORNIA
With A
Biographical Review
of
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been
Identified with Its Growth and Development
from the Early Days to the Present
HISTORY BY
George H. Tinkham
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1923
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