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Portrait and Biographical Album of
Huron County, Michigan
Pub. Chapman Brothers, Chicago, 1884

           [372-373]

           HENRY LIBBY, machinist at Caseville, and engineer in the employ-
        ment of F. CRAWFORD, is the son of JACOB H. and ELIZABETH (STASS)
        LIBBY, both natives of Germany.  The mother died about the year
        1857. The father was born in 1796, and is still a resident of
        Hanover, Germany, where MR. LIBBY, the subject of this sketch, was
        born, June 12, 1832. There was a family of 11 children born to his
        parents, of whom he is the third youngest, and the oldest one now
        living, and is the owner of 240 acres of land situated on sections
        2, 17 and 10. He was born June 12, 1832, in Hanover, Germany. In
        1850 he emigrated to the United States, and found his first employ-
        ment with a farmer in Geauga Co., Ohio. He went thence to Cleve-
        land, Ohio, where he passed two years in the service of THOMAS
        SEARLS, learning his trade. He is a natural mechanic, and is an
        acknowledged master of his business as an engineer and machinist.
           He worked two years for MR. F. CRAWFORD, in Cleveland, and came
        in 1857 in his interest to Caseville, where he has operated since,
        with the exception of three years, when he was engaged in the
        management of a saw-mill at Warrensville, Geauga Co., Ohio.
           He has erected all the machinery in the works of MR. CRAWFORD at
        Caseville, as follows: two engines in CRAWFORD'S mill of 100-horse
        power; one in another saw-mill, of 35-horse power; one in the
        grist-mill, of 35-horse power; No. 1 in drill house, 15-horse
        power; No. 2, in drill house, 15-horse power; No. 3, in drill
        house, 15-horse power; No. 4, in drill house, 15 horse power; No.
        5, in drill house, 25-horse power; two portable engines, respect-
        ively of 7 and 20-horse power. In addition to these MR. LIBBY has
        put in three steam pumps, two of which are 10 x 5 inches and one is
        6 x 3 inches in size.
           The farm of MR. LIBBY includes 125 acres of improved land, with
        two good frame houses and two good frame barns, with necessary out-
        buildings and excellent orchards.
           He was married in September, 1857, to MARIA EMSHOFF, and they
        have six children, ANNA, JOHN, ELIZA, HENRY, NORA and MABEL.  MRS.
        LIBBY was born in October, 1832, in Prussia, Germany. She came with
        her father to Cleveland, in 1854, after the death of her mother.
           Mr. and Mrs. LIBBY are Lutherans in religious belief.

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