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- Q18754924 subject Q5838217.
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- Q18754924 abstract "John Gibb (1829 – August 27, 1905) was a cofounder of the dry goods house of Mills & Gibb. Gibb was born in 1829 in Forfarshire, Scotland. He left his father's farm at the age of 14 to apprentice for four years in a draper’s shop at Montrose, Angus. Later, he went to London and was in the largest wholesale house in that city. 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.In 1865, he formed the firm of Mills & Gibb with Philo L. Mills, with whom he remained partners for over forty years. When the company incorporated in 1903, Gibb became president, while Mills, vice-president, moved to England to take charge of the company's foreign business. 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. He was for a term president of the Brooklyn Park Commission and was one of the trustees of the Y. M. C. A.".
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- Q18754924 wikiPageWikiLink Q5838217.
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- Q18754924 comment "John Gibb (1829 – August 27, 1905) was a cofounder of the dry goods house of Mills & Gibb. Gibb was born in 1829 in Forfarshire, Scotland. He left his father's farm at the age of 14 to apprentice for four years in a draper’s shop at Montrose, Angus. Later, he went to London and was in the largest wholesale house in that city. In 1850, he became acquainted with a member of the firm of E. S.".
- Q18754924 label "John Gibb (businessman)".
- Q18754924 depiction John_Gibb_(1829-1905).png.