Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hibbs, James K.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Buckingham Township


JAMES K. HIBBS farmer, P.O. Pineville, was born in 
Buckingham township, Bucks county, April 6, 1828, and is a 
son of William and Marjorie (Kirk) Hibbs, natives of Bucks 
county and of English descent.  This branch of the family 
came here at an early day and settled near Newtown. The 
grandfather Hibbs was a farmer, and lived and died on a farm 
near Newtown.  William Hibbs was also a farmer, and just 
before his marriage moved up from Northampton to Buckingham 
township, and located at Pineville, where he bought a farm 
and lived until his death.  He had four children:  James K.; 
Eliza, married Joseph Atkinson, of Buckingham; Mary, married 
Richard Janney, of Solebury; and William H., married Elmira 
Malone, of Buckingham.  William H. served three years in the 
104th regiment, company C, Pennsylvania Volunteers.  James 
K. was reared on a farm and has always followed farming.  In 
1868 he bought and removed to the place where he now 
resides.  He was married in December, 1868, to Esther, 
daughter of Edward Williams.  Mr. and Mrs. Hibbs are the 
parents of three children:  Edward W., Mabel K. and J. 
Russell.