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Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878.

John HIBNER, farming, Sec. 8; P. O. Joliet; the subject of this sketch was born in Guernsey 
Co, Ohio, about 1804. He married Miss Nancy KIRTZ in 1837; she was born in York Co, Penn.; 
they have had fourteen children, twelve living, viz., George W., Frank A., James C., David, 
Martin E., John W., William A., Elizabeth, Phobe Jane, Nancy A., Sarah A. and Lucinda. He 
lived in Ohio till 1847, when he moved to Missouri, where he remained one year; from here 
he went to Wisconsin, remaining six months; in 1848, he came to Will Co, IL, and settled 
on his present place, and has lived here since; he has not been an office-seeker; he 
started in poor circumstances, and now owns about 500 acres in this county, which he 
has earned principally by his own labor.