Artist: Othmar J. Hoffler (1893–1954)
Henry Noel Gibson
GIBSON, HENRY NOEL (1878–1966), inducted 1947
H. Noel Gibson was the son of English-born breeder Richard Gibson (see biography below) and was raised at Belvoir Farm in Delaware, Ontario. He managed Altamont Stock Farm, Millbrook, New York, and John Larocque’s New Jersey farm, before partnering with James Brown at Thaxton Farms, Dundee, Illinois, in 1915. He judged the wether classes at the International Live Stock Exposition more frequently than any other judge in the show’s history. He judged at the British Royal as well, and he earned the Queen’s Coronation Medal. A president of the American Shropshire Association, that organization made Gibson an honorary vice president for life.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 95