[This was written by Jesse Hibbard when he was 14. Edits added by someone else are given in brackets like these.]
May 12, 1908
History of Hibbard family as far as known
By one of the same
Howard Horatio Hibbard was born in Franklin County, New York in 1854, Nov. 28. His mother was born in Vermont and his father in New Hampshire. His mothers name before marriage was Drusilla Grimes. He had one brother Herman and three sisters Jane, Melissa, and Emily. At the age of nine, his family moved to Moira [1863] in northern New York. Herman came west and hunted and worked there for a while. When he returned he told of the fine country there and the family decided to come west to St. Cloud, Minnesota in 1871. [Howard H. was 71] They lived in Palmer Township for a short time and then moved to Haven Township on the banks of Elk River. [Hartman farm in the 1930's] Howard Hibbard married at the age of 21 [1875 - however, other records reveal 5 Nov 1876] a girl by the name of Roseanne Doran. Her parents were born in Ireland and she was born in Maryland, Havre De Grace [1857], City of. When young her family moved to Wilmington, Deleware, where her mother [whose name before marriage was Bridget Guthrie - other records indicate Margaret Guthrie] died when she was eight years old. She had nine sisters, most of whom are dead. One, Margaret married a rich man in North Dakota. Another, Kate married a man in Brooklyn, N. York, by the name of Frost. The others name is Pierce. [referring to Margaret's husband, I believe - ACH] She [Roseanne] went to live with her aunt and uncle, Mary and Hugh Mulligan, both from Ireland. With them, she traveled to California by way of Panama. They lived in California, Oregon, and Vancouver Island for about two years when they again came east to St. Paul, Minn, where they ran a boarding house for a while. Then they went to Dakota County Minn. and lived for a while on a farm. Then they came to Sherburne County, Minn. The couple [Mr. & Mrs. H. H. Hibbard in 1875] lived with the parents of Howard Hibbard for four years where Harry William and Anne Marion were born to them. Then they moved to a farm in Haven further north, where Hugh Howard, Nellie Jane, and Jesse Edmund were born. Harry was born Nov. 4 [1? - not clear], 1877, Annie May 8, 1879, Hugh April 4, 1889, Nell April 14, 1883. Herman Hibbard had 3 daughters and 2 sons, Effie now Mrs. Stamuitz, Seattle, Washington. Carrie, dead. Mabel living in Seattle. Myron, in Chicago. George, in Washington. Emily, now Mrs. Herman Marquette living in Stearns County, Minn. Melissa or Mrs. Western living at Spokane, Washington. Harry [Hibbard] married a girl by the name of Edith Anderson in Wisconsin. He now lives in Lewiston, Idaho a professor in the Normal school there. Annie, called Mame by the rest, married a man by the name of George Studer and lives in St. Cloud, Minn. Her husband works for a machine man. They have two boys Howard [b. 1903], aged 5 and Harry [b. 1906] aged 2. Hugh married a girl by the name of Emma Gaumnitz, and lives on the old farm still. They were married in June last [1907] and have no children. Nell married a man by the name of George Gulde in 1901. They live in St. Cloud, he being a machine merchant. They live in St. Cloud and have 4 children, Leona [Magdalen] age 6, Evelyn Rose age 4, Lester, age 3 Erwin [got burned died in Dec. 1908] age 9 months. Jesse lives a part of the time with Hugh and in the winter with his folks in St. Cloud, Minn, where they moved in the fall of 1906. He attends the [7th grade] Union School in St. Cloud.