BIO: Albertus Hibner, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, historical editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, York Borough, Pg 25

ALBERTUS HIBNER, contractor and builder, was born in York, Penn., November 15, 
1833, is a son of Augustus and Margaret (Rodgers) Hibner, is of French-English 
descent, and is the eldest in a family of three children.  His father was also a 
native of York, Penn., and was born in 1809; his mother was born in Freystown, 
in 1814.  His paternal grandfather was Frederick Hibner, a native of France, who 
came to America with a fleet fitted out by Gen. La Fayette, and took part in the 
Revolutionary war.  Mr. Hibner received a good common school education, and at 
seventeen years of age began a four years' apprenticeship at the carpenter's 
trade under Jacob Quichel.  In 1860 he began carpentering and contracting for 
himself, which occupation he still continues, and is one of the successful 
contractors of York.  The marriage of Mr. Hibner occurred in 1858, to Miss Sarah 
Krone, a native of York, Penn.  Politically Mr. Hibner is a Democrat, and has 
held the office of borough surveyor, and been a member of the school board for a 
number of years.  In 1855 he was made an Odd Fellow, and is now a member of 
Harmonia Lodge, No. 858, and for ten years has represented this lodge in the 
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.