Order : to Thomas Rosberg, 1759 Oct. 3.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Gibbons, William (William James)

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William Gibbons (1726-1800) was a Savannah, Georgia planter and lawyer. Trained in Charleston under the lawyer, Mr. Parsons, he returned to Savannah to practice law. He owned a rice plantation along the Savannah River in Newington Village. During the Revolutionary War, he was a member of the party that broke into the British magazine in Savannah. Although he never bore arms during the war, he was continuously in civil service and served as a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775. Gibbons was...

Rosberg, Thomas.

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