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CHARLES HIBLER, wholesale and retail grocer, was born near Clinton, Henry county, Mo., Jan. 24, 1854. His father was born in St Louis, and his mother in Maryland. His parents moved to Texas when he was three years of age and located on a farm near Ft. Worth. Two years later they moved to Ft. Smith, Ark., and again engaged in farming and continued in that occupation until the late war. In the fall of 1863 his father went south and two years later his family followed and joined him in Arkansas. They proceeded to Severe county, same state, and thence to Paris, Texas, where they remained until the close of the war; they then returned to Ft. Smith, Ark., and again engaged in agricultural pursuits. After remaining there about one year they returned to Missouri and located at Sarcoxie. Mr. Hibler was raised principally on a farm and received a common school education. He came to where Joplin now stands in 1871. At that time there were very few houses in what was then Blytheville, now East Joplin. Here he engaged at different occupations until 1873 when he learned the trade of a printer, and took the first subscription for the Daily News. In 1874 he engaged as clerk in a grocery owned by Mrs. E. L. White, relict of E. C. White, of the firm of Porter & White, St. Louis, and continued in that position two years; he then embarked in the same business for himself; soon afterward he sold out his stock and went to Kansas City where he engaged in the restaurant business; he remained there a short time, then returned to Joplin and clerked for L. Riseling for several months; again engaged in the grocery business with Geo. Hill under firm name of Hibler & Hill. Two years thereafter he purchased the entire interest of the firm. Mr. Hibler was married at Bentonville, Ark., in Aug., 1882, to Mrs. E. L, White, then of Springfield, Mo. Mrs. H. is a native of the Hawkeye State.