John Gibb (businessman)

[1] He left his father's farm at the age of 14 to apprentice for four years in a draper's shop at Montrose, Angus.

In 1850, he became acquainted with a member of the firm of E. S. Jaffray & Company, who induced him to come to New York, where became a buyer of embroideries and white goods.

Gibb was a director of the Brooklyn Trust Company, a member of the advisory council of the Thrift Savings, Loan & Building Fund, the Brooklyn Club, Long Island Historical Society, Penatquit-Corinthian Yacht, Merchants‘ Central, Hamilton and Olympic Clubs, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History.

[3] Five sons survived him, I. Richmond, Arthur, Walter, Elmer and Louis and four daughters, all married.

[2] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Black's "Dry Goods Guide" (1905)