Charles Hammond Gibson

**Charles Hammond Gibson** (21 November 1874 - 18 November 1954) Boston writer and bachelor bon vivant, best known for having preserved his family's Beacon Street, Boston home as a museum. Charles Hammond Gibson born 21 November 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts, parents were Charles Sr. Gibson and Catherine Hammond. The lifelong bachelor, lived intermittently at 137 Beacon Street until his death in 1954, just four days before his eightieth birthday. In his obituary he describes himself as a “*poet and horticulturist …