Thomas J. Gibbons was born in Albany about the month of September, 1796. His father was James Gibbons, an Englishman, for many years a prominent citizen of Albany. Thomas studied medicine and was admitted to membership of the County Medical Society in July, 1817. He had scarcely entered the profession when he was overtaken by pulmonary disease, of which he died on 18th of May, 1819, at the early age of twenty-two years, and nine months.