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EDGAR B. GIBSON is a superintendent of the Logan Chilton Coal Company on the Guyandotte Eiver near
Henlawson in Logan County. Well versed in all the details of mine de- velopment and operation, he
first became a factor in the mine industry as an electrician and electrical engineer. Practically
all his working experience has been with the Leckie interests in West Virginia.
Mr. Gibson was born at Cooper in Mercer County, West Virginia, August 25, 1889, son of William B.
and Lou E. (Butterworth) Gibson, the former a native of Washington County, Tennessee, and the latter
of Campbell County, Vir- ginia. The mother is still living on the old homestead farm at Watauga,
Tennessee. William B. Gibson, who died February 5, 1922, at the age of sixty-four, spent a number
of years in the coal mines of the Tug River District of West Virginia, chiefly at Elkhorn, where
he was in the service of the Pocahontas Consolidated Fuel Company in all the varied positions from
track layer to superintendent. He finally left the mines to return to his farm in Washington County,
Tennessee. He was a republican, a Baptist and an Odd Fellow. All of his five sons at some time were con-
nected with the coal mining industry: A. J., now a farmer at Princeton in Mercer County, spent twenty
years with the Pocahontas Fuel Company and other mines; C. C. was killed by accident while with the
Tidewater Coal and Coke Com- pany as hoisting engineer; C. S., a farmer at Princeton, was formerly
associated with the Tidewater Coal Company, Bottom Creek Coal Company and other mines; and M. P., a
resident of Princeton.
Edgar B. Gibson attended a seminary near his old home in Washington County, Tennessee. His training
in electrical engineering was gained by a practical course of apprentice- ship and instruction at the
Jeffrey Manufacturing Com- pany's plant in Columbus, Ohio. He has been an electrical engineer for twelve
years. His first work was in the mines at Leckie on Tug River in McDowell County as a hoisting engineer.
He spent six years at Leckie, and was chief electrician when he left there. His next location was at Aflex
in Pike County, Kentucky, on the Tug River, where for two years he was electrician and assistant superinten-
dent. For three years he was chief electrician at Fireco in Raleigh County, at the same place during the
succeeding year was superintendent of Leckie Mine No. 3. Then, in May, 1921, he came to Logan County for the
purpose of opening the Logan Chilton Mine, and all its equipment was installed under his supervision. He also
opened mines at Aflex and Leckie No. 3.
In 1915 Mr. Gibson married Viola V. Phipps, daughter of Herbert Phipps, of Sullivan County, Tennessee. Their
two children are Helen and Alma. Mrs. Gibson is a Presby- terian. He is a democrat, and is affiliated with
the Knights of Pythias and Elks.
The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 343-344
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