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Charles Gibb was born on July 29, 1845, in Montreal, Quebec.

He was a horticulturist. Poor health led Gibb to seek an outdoor occupation and in 1872, he established extensive orchards at Abbotsford, Quebec, to study fruit culture and arboriculture, and to test plant material from abroad. He was a leading figure in the Montreal Horticultural Society and Fruit Growers' Association, besides being a patron of the Art Association of Montreal and a benefactor of McGill University. In 1882, he traveled through northern Europe and Russia collecting seeds and plants on his first foreign exploration in search of fruit varieties that could be used in improving Canadian strains. He published a number of articles on fruit growing, the introduction of Russian apple strains into our fledgling breeding programs, and the results of his own Abbotsford trials of exotic ornamentals and fruits. He was well-known among North American and European pomologists. He is the author of the report “On the Russian Apples Imported by U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1870" (1884).

He died on March 8, 1890, in Cairo, Egypt.

George Duncan Gibb was born in Montreal in 1821 and graduated in medicine from McGill University in 1846. He practiced in London, England, and was the author of many books and articles on diseases of the throat. In 1850, Gibb was Librarian and Curator of the Natural History Society of Montreal.

Mary Louisa Adams was born November 4, 1823. Sometime before 1861 she married Isaac Jones Gibb, a Montreal notary public. In the 1891 census, they were living in Como, Quebec. She died September 9, 1912, and is buried in Mount Royal Cemetery.

George Gibbs was born on July 17, 1815, in Astoria, Queens, New York.

He was an ethnologist, naturalist, geologist, and expert on the language and culture of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest. A graduate of Harvard University Law School (1838), Gibbs moved west during the gold rush of 1848 and eventually secured the position of Collector of the Port of Astoria, Oregon Territory. From 1853 to 1855, he was a geologist and ethnologist on the Pacific Railroad Survey of the 47th and 49th parallels under the command of Isaac Stevens. In 1857, Gibbs joined the Northwest Boundary Survey and served as geologist, naturalist, and interpreter until 1862. The last decade of his life was spent in Washington, D.C., where he undertook studies of Indian languages under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. After the Civil War, he served on a commission settling claims of the Hudson's Bay Company against the U.S.

In 1839, he married Esther Tyler (1819–1882). He died on April 9, 1873, in New Haven, Connecticut.