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Edward Wilks Gibson

21/9/2018

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Edward Wilks Gibson was a wool classer and honorary secretary of the Geelong and Western District Woolclassers' Association. He was a South Barwon councillor, serving from 1894 until 1899. He was president in 1896-97. He carried on a business at Marshalltown for 30 years.

He married Mary Ann Cameron in 1888. They had the following children:
​Wilberthe — born 1890
​Edward John — born 1893 Geelong, died 1981 at Elsternwick​ aged 89
​Lilly 
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​Edward died on 22 November 1953.
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Gibson's house (left) set on the north west corner of his 3 acre allotment on the corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Francis Street — photo Charles Pratt
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