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WASHINGTON GIBB, market-gardener, post office Sewickley, was born Aug. 23, 1830, in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county. Pa. His paternal grandfather, who was a native of Scotland, came to America, and fought under Gen. Washington in the revolutionary war. His son David was bound out to Paul Warden, and worked as a farmer and miner. David was married to Margaret Sisnee, and died at Elizabethtown. Our subject’s father’s family moved from Elizabeth to Neville island in a canoe. Washington Gibb was reared in this county, and received a modest education. When a boy he worked at gardening, a vocation he has pursued more or less all his life. For several years he was a coalboatman on the Ohio river to Louisville; subsequently a pilot. Eventually he removed to Sewickley, where he began gardening on a small scale, and he is now the owner of twelve acres of choice garden land, worth two thousand dollars per acre, shipping most of the produce to Allegheny. Mr. Gibb was married to Miss Mary Devillian, of Westmoreland county, and this union has been blessed with five children: David W., John F., William H., Walter P. and Ida M. Mr. and Mrs. Gibb are members of the Presbyterian Church; he is a republican.