[1][2] After working teaching music in various places in the country Gibbs, not yet married, came to Washington, DC, initially employed in the public school system.
[4] In the Fall of 1905 Gibbs was noted as director of the music among the colored schools of DC as well as president of the Conservatory - and in September Gibbs and friends took a trip to Europe – London, Paris and the countryside of France – joined by her sister, Ida Hunt, noted as the wife of the US consul to Madagascar.
[6] Newly married in Spring 1906, Gibbs wed Napoleon Bonaparte Marshall, a graduate of Harvard University (A.B.
[11] Newspaper coverage in and beyond DC of the new year noted its history to 1903, that it now had more than 600 students since its founding, and reviewed the faculty in some depth - including staff that would later be officers of the institution as well as her husband.
[15] Marshall also took a trip around promoting the school including to Saint Louis, Missouri,[16] and coverage appeared in The Pittsburgh Courier underscoring its students came from all races and sexes and was called unique for doing so and had now had some 1400 students to date coming from many states though only 23 had stayed on through graduating with a diploma.
[25] In December a Baháʼí meeting was hosted at the conservancy - attending included Laura Clifford Barney and her husband, Charles Mason Remey and others.
[28] In April 1921 the Conservancy produced a program for a fundraiser that covered periods of "negro music and drama" in New York.