William Hamilton Gibson

William Hamilton Gibson (October 5, 1850 – July 16, 1896) was an American illustrator, author and naturalist. == Biography == Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, of an old, distinguished New England family; one of his great-great-grandfathers was the jurist Richard Dana (1699–1772), who was the great-grandfather of the famous author Richard Henry Dana Jr. The financial failure and in 1868 the death of Gibson's father, a New York broker, put an end to his studies in t…