Born: 7 December 1801, United States
Died: 16 January 1893
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Abigail Gibbons, an American philanthropist, daughter of Isaac T. Hopper, born in Philadelphia.
In 1833 she married James Sloan Gibbons, the author and abolitionist. She greatly assisted her father in the formation of the Isaac T. Hopper Home for discharged prisoners.
During the Civil War she rendered valuable service in the Federal camps and hospitals. On account of her prominence as an abolitionist her home in New York was sacked in the riots of July, 1863.
In 1971 she helped found an infant asylum, and it was chiefly through her instrumentality that the New York reformatory for women and girls was established by the legislature.