Several years were spent in stock at the Bella Union and Adelphi Theatres in San Francisco.
Subsequently he went to Carncross’ Minstrels in Philadelphia and remained four years.
A trip to England, and on the return he played an engagement with Haverly in Chicago, in 1893. Mr. Gibson was twelve years at Dumont’s Minstrels in Philadelphia; two seasons with George Primrose’s Minstrels, and one season with Cohan and Harris’ Minstrels (1908).
Mr. Gibson formed a partnership with John Murphy that existed twelve years.
He married a Miss Davis October 27, 1880, and as Gibson and Davis they played several seasons.
For the past ten years he has been associated with the company known as Murphy and Gibson’s Minstrels at Atlantic City, N. J., during the Summer.
Alf. Gibson was born at Ashland, Ohio, September 11, 1858.
“Master” Martin has been “Master” Martin for forty odd years, or ever since his first professional appearance at the Old Bowery Theatre in 1867; N. B. Clarke was the stage manager, and ’twas he that gave him the sobriquet.
“Master” Martin essayed many roles before he played his first minstrel engagement with Bryant’s company in New York, early in 1875.
February 12, 1877, he opened with Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels also in New York. Other minstrel engagements were with Moore and Burgess in London, England, where he remained two and a half years.