It became clear to me that I never looked at every Habben lawsuit in Hancock County, Illinois. Lewis Habben (styled as Hobbin in the Quincy Daily Herald article) was sued in May of 1925 in the Hancock County, Illinois, court for $10,000 in the death of popular Quincy, Illinois, citizen Joe C. Barlow. The spelling of […]

I stumbled across this article entirely by accident while looking for something else. My Habben families have been pretty well-researched in Hancock County, Illinois–particularly before World War II and there’s little about them that I don’t already know, particularly if it was a matter of public record. Then I located this little gem while searching […]