Harvey Dow Gibson

Harvey Dow Gibson

Harvey Dow Gibson (1882-1950) was an American businessman.

Career

A graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Gibson was at one point the chairman of the American Red Cross and had become president of the Manufactures Trust Company by 1938 after having bought working control of it from Goldman Sachs a few years earlier. He notably founded the Cranmore Mountain Resort in 1937, bought the Eastern Slope Inn in the same year, and served on the executive board of the New York World's Fair in 1939 and 1940.

External Links

*http://www.easternslopeinn.com/tourhistory.html
*http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,755707-1,00.html
*http://205.188.238.109/time/magazine/article/0,9171,764582,00.html
*http://www.skimuseum.org/page.php?cid=doc90


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