Will County ILGenWeb Biographies..... ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. ************************************************ File contributed for use by: Dori Leekly & Margie Glenn Author: History of Will County, Illinois; Chicago: Wm LeBaron Jr & Co, 186 Dearborn Street, 1878. Samuel LOEBSTEIN, merchant and stock dealer, Beecher; was born in Jebenhausen, State of Wurtemberg, Germany, Feb. 13, 1830; came to America in 1860; stopped in Dyer, Lake Co., Ind., ten years, where he dealt in live-stock; then he came to Washington Twp., where he has remained ever since, following his present business. In 1870, he married Miss Anna HESS, the oldest daughter of Mr. L. HESS, the former proprietor of the Hess House, Chicago; Emma and Fannie are the names of their infant children. Mr. LOEBSTEIN owns a well-improved farm of eighty acres, two and one-half miles southeast of Beecher.