Person:John Hallenbeck (1)

Of the sons of Casper I., none have carved out for themselves a career more signal and significant than John I., born June 10, 1810. Frail, feeble, wasted and pain-worn in boyhood from a disease that baffled the knowledge and skill of medical science, suffering thus until manhood an almost insupportable illness, he started life on the Clough farm, and there he has uninterruptedly lived for the last fifty years and amassed his wealth. He owns between five and six hundred acres of valuable land; but beyond even this area of productive soil, his enterprising nature out into a number of other capital investments. Modest to a fault, rich in quaint, pithy, striking sayings, a lover of the great in literature and men, alive to the events of the hour as a young, unwearible brain, just and even-handed in all his concerns, quick and generous in helping others, held in high esteem by everybody, holding several times the office of supervisor and other positions of grave public trust, he has earned for himself a name and character of which his posterity may well feel proud. On Dec 21st., 1878, his much lamented wife, Anna Maria, passed into the spirit-world.