John Giblin

GIBLIN, MARLOW

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:11:27

John Giblin was born in Ireland in 1830, and was brought to the United States by his parents when he was only two years of age. The family first stopped in the New England States for about seven years, and then emigrated to Illinois, where the father died in 1880. The mother is still living.
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In 1850 John Giblin went to California, where he was engaged in mining about two years, and afterward in general merchandising, until 1863, when he went to Idaho Territory, from there to VanCouver’s Island, and thence to Montana.
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In 1867, at Freeport, Illinois, he married Miss Ann Marlow. They now have five children – Emma, Ella, John P., Lizzie and Thomas. Soon after their marriage Mr. Giblin and wife came to Butler county and settled where they now reside. In 1870, however, they removed to Salt Lake City, Utah, and there carried on a general mercantile business for seven years.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 620