Biography of Isaac Gibbs Kalamazoo County, MI Biographies
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Officials in America 1906]  Among the earliest settlers in the
town of Oshtemo was Isaac Gibbs, who settled in the southeast
corner of the town in the spring of 1833, having entered his
land the fall before. He was born in Otsego Co., N. Y., in the
town of Middlefield, on the 19th day of February, A.D. 1799. His
father was a farmer, and with him Isaac remained until he was
twenty-one years old, working on the farm summers and attending
the district school winters. When he was twenty-eight years of
age he married Miss Pheobe Waldorff, who was born in the town of
Romulus, Seneca Co., N. Y., May 10,1806. When Mr. Gibbs started
in life he had nothing but what nature had given him, a good
constitution and energy: At the time of his marriage he had
accumulated a few hundred dollars, which were invested in a
small piece of land. This he sold, and in company with his
brother Chester bought a farm in t