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George Gibson (1783-1861), a native of
Pennsylvania, a soldier from his youth, reached the rank of
lieutenant-colonel during the war of 1812. He served with Andrew
Jackson during the so-called “First Seminole War,” became Commissary
General in 1818, and in 1826 reached the brevet rank of Brigadier
General. He served as Commissary General during the Indian removal,
overseeing the logistics of removing thousands of tribal people during
the 1830s.
Source:
Appletons’ Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York:
D. Appleton & Company, 1894), 2: 640.
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