The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-27
DIR. J. b. HIBBEN.
A Sketch of One of the Candidates for
Mayor.

Mayor.
DR.. ]. B. Hibben, who will contest the
Republican primaries with Mr. Fellows
for the nomination for mayor, is a we'll
known citizen who has held numerous
positions of trust and responsibility. He
has lived in Topeka for eighteen years
and by his ability and kindness of heart
has won many friends and much popu-
larity- He is a good speaker A hard
worker himself, he has allied many of
that class with him in this contest. When
DR.. Hogeboom became chief surgeon Of
the Santa Fe and he removed DR.. Hibben
as assistant, nearly a thousand Santa Fe
employees Joined in a petition asking his
reinstatement
A number of meetings, well attended
have been held in DR.. Hibben's interest
One is announced for tonight at No s21
Kansas avenue
The following complimentary sketch is
from this weeks issue of the Western
Veteran:
Dr. ]. B Hibben, one of the leading
physicians of Topeka, lis a prominent
candidate for the Responsible of15ca Of
mayor. Though relatively a voI,ne
man, it is doubtful whether any other
OF the medical fraternity of his age has
peen SO honored with positions of trust
IN the line of his profession. sharing the
confidence repOsed in his fitness for the
places he has so ably filed and his ex-
ecutiVe ability where that characteris-
tic IS so essential to the proper per
torrance of the duties demanded of the
incumbent
An Indianian by birth. when years
old he removed to Brooklyn N Y
Where his scholarly education was be-
gun, his estimable father, the Oldest
chaplain in the United States navy at
the time on duty at the large navy
yard located near the first mentioned
clty: Inc doctor was from there sent
TO the celebrated Wesleyan university
at Middletown, Conn, where he com
pleted his secular education, and from
that famous institution commenced his
medical education at the University of
New York, in the city, by which he
was graduated with high honors in
1878 His eminent father who was
also an author of the History of the
Washington Navy Yard" covering a
period OF one hundred years, not being
Overburdened with worldly fortune the
ambitious son was compelled by hard
work to contribute for the cost of his
education by teaching a night school
and attending the necessary course of
lectures for his proper advancement in
his professional studies during the day
He also did duty during the summer as
a teacher on board of the United States
frlgate Minnesota, through which
means he was effectualIy able to con-
tinue his course of study through the
ensuing winter. Both before and after
having been graduated by the New
York university he performed the re-
SpOnSible duty of assistant physician
a the Flatbush. L. 1, insane asylum
THE chancellor of the university ad-
vised the young graduate to seek ad-
varfcement and practice in his chosen
profession in the then new west, and
acting upon the counsel of his eminent
preceptOr, the doctor came to Kansas.
locating in Topeka in the month of
May, 1879. There he soon formed a
partnership with DIR. S. E. Sheldon
which continued uninterTuptedly for a
whole decade He then affiliated him
IA
Jones, now surgeOn-of the Soldiers
home at Leavenworth. DR.. Hibben has
held the Office of coroner of Shawnee
county for three consecutive terms ag-
gregating six years. He was then ap-
pointed by Mayor Joseph Wilson of To
peka on the first board of health es-
tablished in the city, and has served in
that responsible position, and as the
city'S physician, for a period aggregat-
ing ten years. DR.. Hibben was sur
geon general Of the Kansas National
guard during both terms of Governor
John A Martins administration; was
also medical director of the supreme
legion of the Select knights. A O. T.
w, for four years and held the same
position in the grand legion of the same
order, and has been receiver of the
grand lodge for three consecutive
terms; local surgeon of the A, T. & S.
F. railroad While serving in this ca
pacity he won great favor among the
railroad boys for his kindly acts, al
ways ready ana Wiling 10 go Wherever
called without regard to rank or sta
ton held by the men, Also physician
of the state reform school for two
years. He is also local surgeon for the
NJ. P railroad, and chief physician of
the Modern Woodmen of America for
the third district, which comprises the
states of Kansas, Missouri. northern
Ohio. Should DR. Hibben be elected
to the exalted position of mayor of the
capital city, he win bring with him an
executive experience learned through
a series of responsible offices of the
best fraternal orders. where ability of
that character is demanded in the
workings of the varied institutions with
which he has been so long connected
Topeka is the chosen home of DR.. Hib-
ben; all his interests are centered here
He will bring to the Office every energy
of his hard working nature, and that
economy, without parsimony, which
has characterized his own successful
life, and an administration which shall
have for it's object the advancement of
the city's best interests
DIR Hibben is the son of veteran.
his father having been connected with
the United States navy for a long series
of years, and at his death, which oc-