HIBBEN, WILLIAM W.: ?-?
William W. Hibben , prominent Indiana minister from 1835 to 1865, was born in Uniontown, Pa., and removed with his parents to Ohio at an early age.
He was licensed as a Methodist minister at Hillsborough, O. , in 1832 and came to Indiana in March, 1835. He held pastorates at Lafayette , Indianapolis and elsewhere in the state, retiring from the ministry after a term as presiding elder of the Jeffersonville district.
Throughout his career he wrote for newspapers and the religious press and acted as associate editor of a periodical, THE MASONIC ADVOCATE, for several years after 1871.
Information from Nowland–Sketches of Prominent Citizens of 1876.
- Rev. James Havens, One of the Heroes of Indiana
Methodism. Indianapolis, 1872.
