Our next meeting is January 20, 2026.
7:00-8:30 pm
Community Rooms, Giant Supermarket
315 N. York Road, Willow Grove PA

 

GPSCC member Anne Gibby will talk about her "Great Uncle Len."

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Great Uncle Len is the White/Morrison family’s special uncle who arranged a life annuity for Anne’s mother-in-law, Mary Morrison Gibby. He was a trader/broker and then secured a seat on The  New York Stock Exchange. He was a prolific collector of stamps, postal envelopes, correspondence, transactions, and copious notes to clients, friends and family.

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Len was gifted a Boston Stamp Album by his mother in 1879, and Anne received it by default because it was considered not valuable by Mary’s family. Mary entrusted the album, a rare book, and boxes of correspondence to Anne’s husband, Ned.

 

The album is where Anne’s interest starts. Her presentation will be limited to stamps and Len’s trading and brokering with White and Blackwell Bankers from 1886 to 1900, which was a busy time for him and before he secured a seat on the Stock Exchange.​​​