[p. 955] one of North Beaver Township's prominent farmers and dairymen, who resides on his valuable property containing ninety-seven acres, which is situated on the Mount Jackson-Springfield Road, about two miles west of Mount Jackson, was born in Beaver Township, Mahoning County, Ohio, February 3, 1840, and is a son of Daniel and Magdalena (Failer) Hieber.
Daniel Hieber was born in Germany, and he came to America at the age of twelve years, in company with his widowed mother two brothers and two sisters. They settled on a farm in Mahoning County, but soon after Daniel went to live with an older sister, Mrs. Bowman, at Germantown, near Philadelphia. The Bowmans owned a truck farm, and Daniel assisted in growing vegetables for the city market, residing with his sister and family for twelve years. He then returned to Mahoning County, where his mother still lived, and where she attained advanced age, dying when almost ninety years old. Daniel Hieber married Magdalena Failer, who was born in Wurtemburg, Germany, and who came to America with her brothers and sisters after her parents had died. Following his marriage Daniel Hieber bought a farm two miles northeast of North Lima, in Mahoning County and there both he and wife died. They had but two children, William, who died aged nine months, and Daniel B.
Daniel B. Hieber was reared on the above mentioned farm and has continuously followed agricultural pursuits, with the exception of four years, when he worked as a carpenter in Youngstown; this immediately preceding his settling on his present farm, in 1877, he having purchased the property in the fall of 1876. In operating the farm he is assisted by his son, Perry Hieber, who resides at home. Mr. Hieber was married, first, to Esther Sprinkle, who died in 1874, at Youngstown. They had five children, the only survivor being Frank, the youngest, who resides at Pittsburg, where he is a structural ironworker. The children deceased were: Wilson, who died aged thirteen years; Monroe, who died aged ten months; Ida, who died aged five years, and Ella, who died aged twenty-two years. Mr. Hieber was married, secondly, to Loina Failer, who is a daughter of Michael Failer, and they have one son, Perry.
20th Century History of New Castle and Lawrence County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens Hon. Aaron L. Hazen Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill., 1908
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