Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Richard Albert Gibson
GIBSON, RICHARD ALBERT (1840–1911), inducted circa 1909
Richard Gibson was born in Leicester, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1861, continuing to the United States a few years later. He gained prominence managing the New York Mills farm in Utica, New York, introducing Shorthorns imported from Thomas Booth. When the herd was dispersed in 1873, the 109 head brought an astounding total of $381,999. Ten years later, Gibson purchased Belvoir Farm in Delaware, Ontario. He was president of the Dominion Shorthorn Association and the Canadian Kennel Club and was appointed to the Ontario agricultural commission in 1880. Gibson was an officer of the Saddle & Sirloin Club at its founding in 1903 and was Vice President of the ILSE in the early years.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 95