J.M. Heberling, express agent, was born in Pennsylvania in 1846; came to Jackson County, Iowa, in 1856, and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1878, where he was messenger of th C., N.W.R.R. between Cedar Rapids and Council Bluffs. He came to this city in Aug. 1881. He married Lizzie Todd, of Milwaukee, Wis.
Hiram H. Heberling, who came to Kansas in April, 1855, and settled in a locality which he later named Georgetown in Shawnee County, was thenceforward prominently identified with the early history of the state. His object in coming to Kansas was twofold: first to help make Kansas a free state; and second, to get land for his boys and himself. After some investigation he selected the location at the place above named, built a log cabin with shake roof and puncheon flooring, put up some fence and broke out some of the prairie sod. The winter of 1855 he returned … Read more