Ford County IL Archives Biographies.....Hahn, Gottlieb September 27, 1827 - 
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Source: History of Ford County, Illinois: from its earliest settlement to 1908, volume 2, pages 506-510.
Author: Gardner, Ernest Arthur

Gottlieb Hahn, a retired agriculturist now making his home in Roberts, this 
county, was born in Germany on the 27th of September, 1827. His parents were 
also natives of the fatherland and there passed away when our subject was very 
young, the latter being now the only survivor of his father's family of five 
children.

Gottlieb Hahn acquired his education in the schools of his native land and 
lived with his sisters until he had attained the age of twenty years, when in 
1847 he crossed the Atlantic to the United States that he might enjoy the 
broader business opportunities which he had heard were offered in the new 
world. He located first at Hennepin, Putnam county, Illinois, where he was 
employed as a laborer for a year, after which he removed to La Salle county 
and worked for one man for two years. He was then married and brought his 
bride to a log house which he erected near Hennepin, its dimensions being 
fourteen by sixteen feet. In this primitive structure, with its clapboard 
roof, he continued to live for several years, subsequently carrying on 
agricultural pursuits as a renter for nine years. On the expiration of that 
period he purchased a farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Livingston 
county, for which he paid seven dollars per acre and on which he lived for 
thirteen years. As the years passed by he converted the wild land into rich 
and fertile fields that annually responded in golden harvests to the care and 
labor which he bestowed upon them. Moreover, his well directed energy and 
capable business management brought him a large degree of success and when he 
had accumulated a competence he retired form active work and has since lived 
in the enjoyment of well earned ease at his pleasant home in Roberts, Ford 
county. He is also recognized as one of the pioneer agriculturists of the 
state, for he did his full share in the work of earl}development and progress 
here and has watched with interest the transformation of a wild and windswept 
prairie into a rich farming district, inhabited by a prosperous and contented 
people.

In 1850 Mr. Hahn was united in marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Warner, the widow of 
George Warner and a native of Germany, where her birth occurred in 1820. She 
accompanied her parents on their removal to Putnam county in 1837 and is the 
only one now living in their family of four children. By her first marriage 
Mrs. Hahn had five children, two of whom still survive: Mary, the wife of 
David Wilsoncroft, residing in Roberts; and Elizabeth, who became the wife of 
James Moore and makes her home in South Dakota. Unto our subject and his wife 
have also been born five children, namely: Conrad, of Momence, Illinois; 
William, who resides in Roberts; Amelia, the wife of David Barnett, also 
living in Roberts; and two who have passed away. Mrs. Hahn is remarkably well 
preserved, still doing her own housework with the energy and capability of a 
much younger woman.

Mr. Hahn has voted with the republican party since becoming a naturalized 
American citizen and has been prominent in local work of the organization, 
having held several township offices both in Livingston and Ford counties. 
Both Mr. and Mrs. Hahn are members of the Congregational church and they 
receive the respect and veneration which should ever be accorded those who 
have traveled far on life's journey and whose course has ever been upright and 
honorable. The hope that led him to leave his native land and seek a home in 
America has been more than realized. He found the opportunities he sought, 
which, by the way, are always open to the ambitious, energetic man, — and 
making the best of these he has steadily worked his way upward.

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