Joseph A. McKibben Biography


	This biography appears on page 1896 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	JOSEPH A. McKIBBEN, a retired farmer and extensive landholder of 
Day county, is a native of Edwards county, Illinois. While still a 
youth, his father died and the widowed mother removed with her family 
to Minnesota, where they remained until 1881, when all came to South 
Dakota, locating five miles southwest of Webster, Day county, where 
they took up government land. Here the subject now has a finely 
improved landed estate, over which he still maintains a personal 
supervision. The tract under cultivation is devoted principally to the 
propagation of wheat, oats and barley, and Mr. McKibben also gives much 
attention to the raising of cattle, sheep and horses. Fraternally he is 
identified with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He was married to 
Miss Louisa Butler, who was born in Indiana, and they have five 
children.