Biography of Alfonso Clemens Czibulka
Source History of Jo Daviess County -- 1904

CZIBULKA, ALFONSO CLEMENS physician and surgeon, Warren, Ill., was born at
Vienna, Austria, Sept. 27, 1866, son of Alfonso and Caroline (Kolbay)
Czibulka, "he former born at Vienna and the latter Pt Gratz, Austria. For
an indefinite period Dr. Czibulka's ancestors have been of Austrian
nationality, his paternal grandfather being Roman Czibulka of Vienna, and
his maternal grandparents, F. and Marie Kolbay, natives of the same city.
His grandfather on the father's side was a surgeon with the rank of Major
in the Austrian army for thirty-eight years, while his father served as
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Fourteenth Austrian Infantry from 1859 to 1892.
The latter was a noted composer of light operas and piano music, his
compositions amounting to some 300, and he was the recipient of a number of
medals from the crowned heads of Europe. Dr. Czibulka came to America in
1876, and spent his early years in this country in the schools of New York
City and the State of Connecticut. In 1886 he began the study of medicine,
three years later, graduating from the medical department of the University
of Vermont, after which he spent two years abroad, chiefly in Berlin and
Vienna. On his return to the United States he began practice at Freeport,
Ill., in partnership with Dr's. Caldwell and Stealy, later removing to
Warren, Jo Daviess County, where he enjoys a large practice. Since 1894 he
has been connected with the Illinois National Guard as Assistant Surgeon of
the Sixth Infantry, and four years ago was elected Coroner of Jo Daviess
County. During the Spanish-American War he went to Springfield and was
assigned to duty as Examining Surgeon for the Eighteenth Regiment United
States Army, examining recruits for that regiment at various points in the
State. Dr. Czibulka was Carried Nov. 16, 1892, to Josephine S. Barton, who
was born at Warren, Ill., and educated in the high school of that city, and
they have one child, Marion Barton. Fraternally he is a member of the
Knights of Pythias; was appointed surgeon for the Illinois Central Railroad
in place of Dr. Buchanan, who resigned May 31, I904; is also a member of
the Association of Military Surgeons United States Army, member of State
Medical Society and of the Jo Daviess County Medical Society. 


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