. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. CHARLES H. 1>IBBER]V. We are pleased to show our readers another new face this week, but the name is quite familiar. Mr. Dibbern has for years been one of the "Old Guard "in our department of "Queries. C. H. DIBBERN. and Replies ;" and on account of other of his many and valuable contributions to the literature of bee-culture, he is well known in apiarian circles. The following will give some facts regarding Mr. Dibbern and his life on both sides of the " big pond :" The subject of this sketch was born near Kiel, Holst
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. CHARLES H. 1>IBBER]V. We are pleased to show our readers another new face this week, but the name is quite familiar. Mr. Dibbern has for years been one of the "Old Guard "in our department of "Queries. C. H. DIBBERN. and Replies ;" and on account of other of his many and valuable contributions to the literature of bee-culture, he is well known in apiarian circles. The following will give some facts regarding Mr. Dibbern and his life on both sides of the " big pond :" The subject of this sketch was born near Kiel, Holstien, Germany, on Oct. 15, 1840. Ills father was a wagon- iiiakor and a bee-keeper in a small way. His earliest recollections are of a row of old-fashioned straw hives, and watching his father secure the honey by drum- ming in September. So interested was he in bees while yet a little fellow of five or six years, that he secured the help of his older brother in constructing small clay hives, and placing bumble-bees' nests in them, and watching the big, clumsy fellows come and go, with great glee. In 1847 the clouds of war began to darken his native land, and fortunately the family decided to try to better their condition in that new land—America. At that time there were no railroads west of Chicago, and for that reason the best route to reach the then far West was via New Orleans. In June, 1847, they reached Davenport, Iowa, and soon settled on a farm near that place. In 1851 the family removed to Moline, Ills., where Charles received such an education as the High School there at that time afforded. Hardly had he finished the course, when the Civil War broke out, and with thousands of others he went to the War. He served for three years in the 66th Illinois, and was present at the battles of Donnelson, Shiloh, Corinth and Atlanta, together with what seemed innumerable skir- mishes. When his time was out he re- turned to Moline, to take up the avoca- tions of peace. After secur
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