George Mortimer Tibbits

[1] He was taught the rudiments of learning at such schools as the village of Troy then afforded, until sent to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he received the instructions of a Mr. Gleason, and by him was fitted tor college.

[1] Among his classmates were his cousin, Benjamin Tibbits, of Albany, Joel B. Nott, of Guilderland, Charles F. Ingalls, of Greenwich, and Daniel Gardner, of Troy.

[1] It was on his return from this tour, in 1868, that he presented to the Troy Young Men's Association the bronze statue of Lincoln which adorned their rooms.

[1] He took a deep interest in the building of a new City Hall, favoring its erection as a needed measure, and laid its corner-stone on November 15, 1875.

"[1] He was very fond of riding, and until within a few years of his death he would occasionally start off on a stretch of from ten to fifteen miles in the early morning, bestriding his horse with ease and grace.

[1] He was also interested in building, "to an extent unequaled probably by any other citizen of Troy", says Sylvester; and during his long life many stores and dwellings were erected under his care.

[3] Although inclined to gratify a taste for pictures, statuary, antique furniture, and old books, and to surround himself with the evidences of refinement and culture, yet he could not endure waste in any form.

[3] Later still, when the Griswold Cavalry was organized, of which General Tibbits was the colonel, his father contributed most liberally in procuring enlistments for that regiment in a speedy and efficient manner.

[3] It was thus, unheralded, that be once gave the sum of $10,000 to the Troy Orphan Asylum; and the present of a dwelling and the appurtenant land to a priest, who a few years ago passed to his reward, is another instance of his philanthropy.

[3] Sylvester writes, "He was a stern and an uncompromising foe to gossip, and to the dissemination of scandal or of rumors affecting character or life.

[3] He maintained until his last illness the order of family prayer in his household, and was regular in his attendance thereon whenever the time appointed for the service had come.

His devotional nature found further expansion in the stone church which he erected at Hoosick, and which was in the pastoral care of his son, the Rev.

So entirely was he penetrated with the importance of public worship, that he often expressed a belief that great good might be accomplished if a building could be provided devoted to the public service of God and the diffusion of religious knowledge irrespective of any particular creed or form of worship, and open at all proper times for the attendance of the people.