Carson Glen McGibeny

1875 - 1947  (72 years)

• Name	Carson Glen McGibeny
  Birth	1 Dec 1875	Oregon
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Dec 1947	Manhattan, New York, NY
  Person ID	I20440	Family Tree
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	James McGibeny
  Mother	Hannah Stanett
  Family ID	F8034	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	May Perkins,   b. 1878, Ohio
  Marriage	11 Oct 1897	Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
  Divorce	20 Sep 1910	Michigan
  Notes	from "Michigan, Divorce Records, 1897-1952" (ancestry.com) On 20 Sep 1910, a divorce was granted for cruelty and non-support ofr May D. McGibeny & Carson Glen McGibney, married on 11 Oct 1897 in Milwaukee, WI. 2 Children in family.
  Children	1. Margaret McGibeny,   b. 11 Dec 1898, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI d. 27 May 1993, Indian River Co, FL (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F8036	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2019

  
  

• Notes

  from "Principal Musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra with brief biographical remarks" (stokowski.org) Carson McGibeny was born on 1 December 1875 in Oregon, and was given the nickname of "Doc" by his siblings. His was a musical family, and his father James Benjamin McGibeny (1835-1905) was a music teacher. James McGibeny formed all of his children into the "The Celebrated McGibeny Family" musical group, and they toured the eastern US in the 1880s and 1890s. Carson McGibeny played clarinet in the John Philip Sousa Band under the name of C. G. McGibeny 1904-1908. He was then a theater musician in New York City in the 1900's and a musician at the Colonial Theater in Cleveland in the 1910s. His brother Fredrick McGibeny was both string bass and trombone of the Cleveland Orchestra in its initial year 1918-1919.