Seventh Generation

1769. Gibson ATHERTON was born on 19 Jan 1831 in Licking , Ohio.^26,800 He died on 10 Nov 1887 in Newark, Licking , Ohio.⁸⁰⁰ ATHERTON, GIBSON, attorney, son of John Atherton, was born in Newark
township, this county, January 19, 1831. After passing his boyhood days on
a farm, he attended the Denison university, at Granville, from 1849 to
1851. He then went to Oxford, Ohio, where he graduated in the Miami
university in 1853. He then commenced the study of law.
In September, 1853, he went to Osceola, Missouri, and took charge of an
academy, which he conducted one year. In 1854 he returned to Newark,
completed his course in law with the Hon. Lucius Case, and was admitted to
the bar in the supreme court of Ohio, in 1855. He at once began the
practice of law in the courts of Licking county, and has since been engaged
in the profession.
H was married November 18, 1856, to Miss Margaret A. E. Kumler, of Butler
county, Ohio. They have four children, one son and three daughters.
In 1857 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Licking county, re-elected
in 1859-61, and filled the office three terms. He filled the office of






mayor of Newark two terms--elected in 1860 and re-elected in 1862.
He was the nominee for State senator, in 1863, by the Democracy of the
Sixteenth senatorial district, comprising the counties of Licking and
Delaware, and was defeated by the Hon. James R. Stanbery.
In 1866 he was nominated by the Democracy of Licking, Knox, and Delaware
counties for common pleas judge, and was again defeated. He was a member
of the city council of Newark two years, and president of the council one
year. He was a member of the Newark school board about thirteen years.






>From the time he ceased to be prosecuting attorney of the county until






1879, he was entrusted with the defence of nearly all of the important
criminal cases in Licking county, and was known as a very successful
criminal lawyer.
In 1878 he was nominated for Congress by the Democracy of the Fourteenth
congressional district of Ohio, comprised of the counties of Licking,
Muskingum, Perry, and Guernsey, and was elected over the Hon. I. Morton by
a majority of two thousand two hundred and eighty-seven.
In 1880 he was re-nominated for Congress by the Democracy of the
Thirteenth congressional district of Ohio, comprising the counties of
Licking, Muskingum, Coshocton, and Tuscarawas, and was elected by a
majority of two thousand four hundred and seventy-five over the Hon. A. B.
Clark
During the period that Mr. Atherton has already served in Congress, he has
served on the committee of public buildings and grounds, and as a member of
the committee on war claims. He has been earnest and conscientious in his
efforts to protect the public treasury against the payment of fraudulent
and improper claims. As a member of the committee on war claims, he has
been very active and industrious in examining and reporting upon the
numerous claims referred to that committee. His adverse reports would
already fill quite a volume, while the favorable reports submitted by him
from that committee, amount to very few.
He is very attentive tot he interests of his constituents and visits the
departments almost daily in behalf of some of them. While he has not
attempted to be a noisy member, he has been faithful in his attendance upon
the sessions of Congress, and has taken diligent pains in every thing that
relates to the interest of the people of his district.

Gibson ATHERTON and Margaret Ann Elizabeth KUMLER were married on 18 Nov 1856 in Oxford, Butler , Ohio.⁸⁰⁰ Margaret Ann Elizabeth KUMLER (daughter of Elias KUMLER and Anna Elizabeth CLIPPINGER) was born on 1 Jun 1836 in Butler Ohio. She died on 12 May 1917 in Washington D. C..