James Sloan Gibbons (1810–1892)

Banker, writer and philanthropist, born in Wilmington, DE, on the 1st of July 1810. He was for some time a merchant in Philadelphia, and from 1835 until his death a banker in New York City. He wrote the famous war-song, We Are Coming, Father Abraham, and two works of value, The Banks of New York and the Panic of 1857 (1858) and The Public Debt of the United States (1867). He is remembered on account of his benefactions. He died in New York on the 17th of October 1892. His wife was Abigail (Hopper) Gibbons, with whose efforts for women he was in sympathy, and whom he aided financially.