{"id":15777,"date":"2012-02-29T23:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T07:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=15777"},"modified":"2012-03-29T23:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T06:46:00","slug":"the-gibson-family-in-the-1940-albany-city-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15777","title":{"rendered":"The Gibson Family in the 1940 Albany City Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My aunt Sophie Danko Gibson was listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Albany (Albany County, N.Y.) City Directory residing at 17 Grant Ave, Albany, Albany Co., New York, USA with her husband Clark .\u00a0 There were quite a number of people with the Gibson surname in the directory .\u00a0 As far as I know, none of the other Gibson&#8217;s in the directory are related to Clark .\u00a0 I have provided the first 11 entries in the directory; Clark and Sophie are the last entry in the clip provided.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DAL-Gibson-Clark-1940-Crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-15778\" title=\"1940 Albany City Directory Entry for the Gibson Family\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DAL-Gibson-Clark-1940-Crop.jpg\" alt=\"1940 Albany City Directory Entry for the Gibson Family\" width=\"540\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DAL-Gibson-Clark-1940-Crop.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DAL-Gibson-Clark-1940-Crop-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DAL-Gibson-Clark-1940-Crop-1024x562.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>1940 Albany City Directory Entry for the\u00c2\u00a0Gibson Family<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 U.S. City Directories, Albany, New York 1940, p. 214, Clark Gibson Family; digital image, Ancestry.com (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 29 February 2012); citing Polk&#8217;s Albany (Albany County, N.Y.) City Directory Vol. 1940 CXXVII, Boston Massachusetts: R. L. Polk &amp; Co.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the link for a PDF copy of the 1940 Albany City Directory Entry for the\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DAL-Gibson-1940.pdf\">Gibson Family<\/a>. The brief record states the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Clark Gibson, husband of Sophia D., worked as an ash collr (ash collector) and was head of household at\u00c2\u00a017 Grant\u00c2\u00a0Ave<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using <a title=\"Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stevemorse.org\/\">Steve Morse&#8217;s One-Step Webpages<\/a>, I learned that Clark and Sophia D. Gibson&#8217;s residence at 17 Grant Ave, Albany, Albany Co., New York, USA was located in enumeration district 63-119 in the 1940 United States Federal Census.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the occupation of ash collector apparently refers to people who move freight, stock, or other material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2012 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My aunt Sophie Danko Gibson was listed in the 1940 edition of Polk&#8217;s Albany (Albany County, N.Y.) City Directory residing at 17 Grant Ave, Albany, Albany Co., New York, USA with her husband Clark .\u00a0 There were quite a number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/15777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-15777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gibson","tag-albany-new-york"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-46t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15777"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15781,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15777\/revisions\/15781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}