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JOHN RAYMOND KIBBLEHOUSE, born November 15, 1873, is the son of George B. and Hannah C. (Shrawder) Kibblehouse, a family that is not only numerous in Gwynedd township but influential as well. John R. Kibblehouse was born on the farm which his father rented from Jacob Rhoads, on the Swedesford Road. He attended school at Maple Grove until his sixteenth year, at the end of which time he remained at home, assisting his father on the farm and in the dairy, until he married, October 1, 1896, Margaret Harp, born January 30, 1871, daughter of Alvin Williamson and Catharine (Harp) White. Their children: John Raymond, born in January, 1899, died January 4, 1901; George Clyde, born February 24, 1903.

After his marriage John R. Kibblehouse established himself in Montgomery township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, on the farm of Robert V. Leach, containing sixty-two acres of land, which he conducted as a dairy for one year. In the spring of 1898 he rented the farm of Conard S. Castner, on the Gwynedd Pike, being the old Castner homestead, containing 116 acres, with a quantity of meadow land, on which he still resides, operating it for dairy and general farming purposes. He owns fifteen or twenty head of fine cows. He is deeply interested in his occupation of farming, and is one of the most enterprising of the younger farming element in that section of Montgomery county. He thoroughly understands his business, and is one of the few who know how to make farming pay, even under the disadvantages as to prices of products being too low and wages too high which have prevailed for a number of years. In politics he is an earnest Republican, like all the sons of George B. Kibblehouse. He is always at the polls on election day, and willing to do anything that is possible to promote the interests of the organization, although he has never as yet aspired to public position of any kind. He has, however, been a delegate to county conventions of his party, and has been otherwise remembered in the distribution of party honors. He and his family are members of Boehm’s Reformed church at Blue Bell.

Alvin Williamson White, father of Mrs. John R. Kibblehouse, is a son of William White, who resided at Chalfont, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. His mother was a Williamson, of an old Bucks family. Alvin W. White was born September 26, 1830, in Bucks county. He became a farmer by occupation. He married, August 19, 1858, Mary Catherine Harp, born September 5, 1838, their children being: John Henry, born October 3, 1859, married Gulielma E. A. Jenkins, of Worcester township; William McClellan, born November 19, 1862, married Louise Schultz; Edwin Norris, born May 27, 1865, married Bertha Worrall, daughter of Winfield S. Worrall, of Whitpain township; Alvin Williamson, born April 9, 1869, married Harriet Bacon, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania; Margaret Harp, wife of John R. Kibblehouse; Mary Catherine, born October 12, 1873, married February 16, 1898, Clarence Melvin Greger, born January 29, 1876, son of Charles and Emma Mills Greger, of Worcester township. Mrs. Kibblehouse is a capable manager, and a good helpmeet in every sense of the word, thoroughly domestic in her tastes and devoted to home interests.

(For further particulars as to the Kibblehouse genealogy, see biographical sketch of George B. Kibblehouse, elsewhere in this work).