1902 at age 46. Only daughter was Myra Alice Gibson. Legacy Otis Gibson started in 1868 the first Methodist ministry to the Chinese in America with a mission in San Francisco. The great 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed Gibson's Washington Street building that housed the Chinese Mission, along with most of San Francisco Chinatown. In 1911, after five years of displacement and fund raising, the Chinese Methodist Church was rebuilt on the corner of Washington and Stockton Streets. Otis Gibson was also the first pastor to the Japanese on the Pacific coast. When the first Japanese church in America was dedicated in San Francisco in 1894, he was memorialized in the west window stain glass of the Japanese Church on Pine Street. See also Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast Charles Goodall Lee William Speer (minister) References American expatriates in China Converts to Methodism 1826 births 1889 deaths Methodist missionaries in China Christian missionaries in Fujian Dickinson College alumni People from Moira, New York American Methodist missionaries