Sketch of the Hilbert Family, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Jacob F. Hilbert and wife came from Carlile, Cumberland County, PA.,
to St. Charles County, in July, 1836.  For about seven years after
his arrival in that county, Mr. Hilbert was engaged in the distilling
business with his brother John; but it did not prove remunerative, and
he removed to the city of St. Charles, where he remained until his 
death, which occurred May 7, 1848.  In 1843 he acted as Deputy Sheriff
of the county, and Councilman for the city of St. Charles.  He was
afterward elected Assessor of the county, and was performing the 
duties of that office at the time of his death.  He married Cresentia
Yeally, of Pennsylvania, before his removal to Missouri, and they had
five children, three of whom are living, viz: Julius, Jerome and Jacob.
Mr. Hilbert was upright and prompt in all his transactions with his
fellow men, and his death was an irreparable loss to the community.
His estimable widow lives in the house that he purchased thirty three
years ago.  John Hilbert, a brother of Jacob, settled in St. Charles
County in 1836.  He came from Elizabethtown, PA.  During his residence
in St. Charles he held the various offices of Constable, Councilman
and Mayor, and always discharged his duties in a conscientious manner
and to the best of his ability.  He possessed considerable force of
character, and was firm in his adherence to principle and the measures
which he deemed just and right.  He married Eliza Close, and they rais-
ed five children.  He died in 1871, and his widow resides in St. Louis.
Aloyseus Z. Hilbert, another brother, came from Rochester, N. Y., to
Franklin County, MO., in 1826, where he married Sarah Johnson, and with
his wife removed to St. Charles.  He had the reputation of being one of
the best millers in the West, and did the first stone dressing that was
ever done on the buhrs of the old Collier mill.  He was a member of the 
firm of Woods & Hilbert, flour manufacturers, of New Orleans, twenty
seven years ago; and during Mayor Pratt's administration he was flour
Inspector of St. Louis.  His first wife died, and he afterward married
Mrs. Martha Spencer, who now resides in Iowa.  Mr. Hilbert was killed
in St. Louis, in 1873, by a fall down a flight of stairs at the hotel
where he was stopping.  He received a wound in the head from which he
died in an hour.  He had gained an extended reputation as a miller, and
among his effects were found strong letters of recommendation from 
Messrs. Chouteau, Jules and Felix Valle, and J. & E. Walsh, the latter
stating that the popularity of their brand of flour in the South and
South America was due in no small degree to the skill and intelligent
services of Mr. Hilbert.	

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