John migrated from near Toronto, Canada to the Kansas City, KS, area probably between 1886 - 1888 (about age 21 to 23). His reasons are not known except he was perhaps lured by the promise of low cost and fertile farm land.
He was married first, July 1888, to Ida Pricilla Williams, with whom they had two sons (linked below).
He owned an orchard for 40 years until he and many others were bought out by the Government for the Sunflower Ordnance Plant at Prairie Center (near Olathe) before WWII. He wrote of having gooseberries and other fruits to put up. He primarily seems to have been a carpenter, a cabinet maker, and a builder. He retired at age 90.
This contributor has a dozen of his wooden moulding planes stamped "JA GIEBNER"
He was married first, July 1888, to Ida Pricilla Williams, with whom they had two sons (linked below).
He owned an orchard for 40 years until he and many others were bought out by the Government for the Sunflower Ordnance Plant at Prairie Center (near Olathe) before WWII. He wrote of having gooseberries and other fruits to put up. He primarily seems to have been a carpenter, a cabinet maker, and a builder. He retired at age 90.
This contributor has a dozen of his wooden moulding planes stamped "JA GIEBNER"
John migrated from near Toronto, Canada to the Kansas City, KS, area probably between 1886 - 1888 (about age 21 to 23). His reasons are not known except he was perhaps lured by the promise of low cost and fertile farm land.
He was married first, July 1888, to Ida Pricilla Williams, with whom they had two sons (linked below).
He owned an orchard for 40 years until he and many others were bought out by the Government for the Sunflower Ordnance Plant at Prairie Center (near Olathe) before WWII. He wrote of having gooseberries and other fruits to put up. He primarily seems to have been a carpenter, a cabinet maker, and a builder. He retired at age 90.
This contributor has a dozen of his wooden moulding planes stamped "JA GIEBNER"
He was married first, July 1888, to Ida Pricilla Williams, with whom they had two sons (linked below).
He owned an orchard for 40 years until he and many others were bought out by the Government for the Sunflower Ordnance Plant at Prairie Center (near Olathe) before WWII. He wrote of having gooseberries and other fruits to put up. He primarily seems to have been a carpenter, a cabinet maker, and a builder. He retired at age 90.
This contributor has a dozen of his wooden moulding planes stamped "JA GIEBNER"
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Burial: 15-Feb-1960. Masonic services.
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