David Gibson had been born in 1895, his father a Joiner cum Carriage Builder from Dundonald, his mother from Kilmaurs, and he too became a joiner to trade. But from junior football in 1919 as the game recommenced after The Great War and at not quite twenty-four he made the step up, in 1920 being in the Kilmarnock team that won the first post-War playing of the Scottish Cup. And that too was the year in which he married local girl, Isabella Garrick, and they were to have just one child, a son, born in 1922. 

Once the family was reunited they settled in Westport in Massachusetts by Fall River, he winning with its team the National Challenge Cup that same year before switching allegiance to nearby Providence and with well over a hundred more starts there alone, a professional consolidation of the immense amateur cum shamateur Scots influence in the game there and in neighbouring Pawtucket. However, he would finish his three seasons at the Rhode Island club a widower. In 1930 at the age of just thirty-six Isabella passed away. But it was not before David had chosen to naturalise yet curiously to do so in Chicago, would be followed by a final season at Fall River as American soccer more or less collapsed under him and resulted finally, despite he becoming an American, in 1932 in his return to Scotland for two seasons still in the League with Queen of the South and another outwith at Galston. 

David Gibson retired from football in 1935 at the age of forty, taking himself back to Kilmarnock permanently, there dying, a Retired Joiner, in 1964 three days short of his sixty-ninth birthday and at Rugby Park. But he did it seemingly having remarried, another local girl, Mary Turnbull, ten years his junior and perhaps with American connections. However, whilst Mary very much existed, also dying in the town in 1980 at the age of seventy-seven no trace of a wedding seems to exist, on either side of the Atlantic.