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grandson of Randall and Harriet (McKinley) Gibeon. Randall Gibson was an American soldier in the war of the Revolution, who settled after the war at Oakley, Warren county, Miss., and built the first church and founded Jefferson college, the first college in the Mississippi valley. Randall Lee was prepared for college at Lexington, Ky., and at Terre Bonne, La., where his father had a sugar plantation, and he was graduated at Yale in 1803, valedictorian of his class. He was graduated LL.B. at the University of Louisiana in 1855; travelled in Europe, and while there declined the secretaryship of the Spanish legation; and in 1860 was an aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Moore of Louisiana, in which state he had settled as a planter. From the governor's staff he passed to the Confederate army, serving in the army of the Tennessee under Generals Hood, S. D. Lee, Breckinridge, Johnston, Hardee and Dick Taylor, as colonel of the 13th Louisiana, brigadier-general in command of Adams's brigade, and major-general. He led his brigade in a charge at Shiloh, won promotion at Perryville, and fought gallantly at Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta, Nashville and in defence of Spanish Fort, Mobile, Ala. At the close of the war he practised law in New Orleans, and was elected to the 45th congress, but was not allowed to take his seat. He represented the first district of Louisiana in the 44th–47th congresses, 1873–83, and was a senator in congress from Louisiana, 1868–93. In the senate he was chairman of the committee on manufactures and a member of the committees on agriculture and forestry, commerce, interstate commerce, naval affairs, fisheries, District of Columbia, transportation routes to the seaboard and the select committees to establish the University of the United States and of the Quadro-Centennial. He was elected president of the board of administration of the Tulane university of Louisiana, founded by a gift of $1,500,000 from Paul Tulane; an administrator of the Howard memorial library of New Orleans, trustee of the Peabody education fund and regent of the Smithsonian institution. He was married to Mary, daughter of R. W. Montgomery of New Orleans. La. Senator Gibson was obliged in 1803 to seek relief from continued ill health and he died at Hot Springs, Ark., Dec. 15, 1892.

GIBSON, Robert Atkinson, bishop coadjutor of Virginia and 184th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Petersburg, Va., July 9, 1846; son of the Rev. Churchill J. and Lucy Fitzhugh (Atkinson) Gibson; grandson of Patrick and Elizabeth (McMurdo) Gibson, and of Robert and Mary (Mayo) Atkinson; and a descendant of Gov. Richard Bennet, who came to Virginia in 1039. He was graduated at Hampden Sidney college in 1867 and at the theological seminary, Virginia, in 1870. He was a missionary in a district of Virginia extending over five counties, 1870–73; was assistant minister at St. James's church, Richmond, Va., 1873–78, and rector of Trinity church, Parkersburg, W.Va., 1878–87, and of Christ church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1887–97. He was elected bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Virginia, June 30, 1897, to succeed assistant Bishop John Brockenborough Newton, deceased, and he was consecrated Nov. 3, 1897, in Holy Trinity church, Richmond, Va., by Bishops Whittle, Peterkin and Randolph, assisted by Bishops Penick, Thompson, and Vincent, the sermon being preached by Bishop Thompson.

GIBSON, Robert Williams, architect, was born in Aveley, Essex, England, Nov. 17, 1854; son of Samuel Lodwick and Eliza Gibson; grandson of William Gibson, and a descendant of Gibsons of Essex and Devonshire, England. He attended a private school in Gravesend and afterward completed a course at the Royal Academy of Arts in Loudon, England, in 1879, winning the silver medal and the travelling studentship, and the art certificate of the Royal institute of British architects. In 1881 he immigrated to the United States and established himself in Albany, becoming a citizen of the United States in due time. In 1888 he removed to New York city. He was the architect of St. Paul's cathedral, Buffalo, N.Y., when rebuilt after fire; of All Saints cathedral, Albany, N. Y.; of the U.S. Trust company's building, New York city;

the New York clearing house; the New York botanical museum; the New York coffee exchange, and many banks, office buildings and churches in various places. He was elected president of the Architectural league of New York; a director of the American institute of architects; a member