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Josiah Willard Gibbs was born to Josiah Gibbs Sr and Mary Anna Van Cleve on February 11, 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut. As a child he lived a relatively privileged life with his four older sisters. Education was encouraged in his family as not only was his father a professor at Yale, but also had one relative who held a position as president of Harvard and another relative who was the first president of Princeton. | |||
-son of Yale professor | |||
-long line of college graduates and presidents | |||
-2 older sisters | |||
-“withdrawn and intellectually absorbed. The circumstance and his delicate heath kept | |||
him from participating much in student and social life” | |||
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Personal Life
Early Life
Josiah Willard Gibbs was born to Josiah Gibbs Sr and Mary Anna Van Cleve on February 11, 1839 in New Haven, Connecticut. As a child he lived a relatively privileged life with his four older sisters. Education was encouraged in his family as not only was his father a professor at Yale, but also had one relative who held a position as president of Harvard and another relative who was the first president of Princeton.
-son of Yale professor -long line of college graduates and presidents -2 older sisters -“withdrawn and intellectually absorbed. The circumstance and his delicate heath kept him from participating much in student and social life”