{"id":6336,"date":"2018-02-24T17:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2018-02-24T17:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:57:38","slug":"whence-harm-habbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"Whence Harm Habbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6337\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harm_habbus-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harm_habbus-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/harm_habbus.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/>I&#8217;m trying to locate information on a &#8220;Harm Habbus&#8221; who apparently was in Clayton Township, Adams County, Illinois, in 1872 or so.<\/p>\n<p>This is part of an 1892 newspaper clipping from the Quincy [Illinois] Daily Journal that references Habbus as the father of a baby born to Volke Behrens, daughter of Ulfert Behrens in Clayton Township. His last name may be a variation on Habbus. The newspaper is the only reference I have to Habbus. It is very possible that his last name was not really Habbus. Harm is a low-German name and hopefully correct.<\/p>\n<p>Based upon the name, the location, and the fact that he was involved with an Ostfriesen girl, I&#8217;m guessing he was a native of Ostfriesland, Germany.<\/p>\n<p>But whence Harm? He seems to go &#8220;poof&#8221; after he and Volke reproduce.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to locate information on a &#8220;Harm Habbus&#8221; who apparently was in Clayton Township, Adams County, Illinois, in 1872 or so. This is part of an 1892 newspaper clipping from the Quincy [Illinois] Daily Journal that references Habbus as the father of a baby born to Volke Behrens, daughter of Ulfert Behrens in Clayton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}