San Diego County Biographies
 
H. H. HIMEBAUGH

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was born January 14, 1840, in Erie County, Pennsylvania. In 1855 he went to 
Kingsville, Ohio, to attend the Kingsville Academy. He moved to Dane County, 
Wisconsin, in 1858, and engaged in teaching the greater part of two years. In 
1860 he moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, where he entered Lawrence University, and 
pursued his studies until the spring of 1864, when he left school to enter the 
army. He enlisted in Company E (Captain J. H. Hauser), of the Fortieth Regiment, 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Augustus Rey, commanding. The regiment 
went to the front at Memphis, Tennessee, to relieve General A. J. Smith's 
command, which was about to proceed against General Forrest, and took part in 
the repulse of Forrest in his raid on Memphis. The Fortieth, being mustered in 
for 100 days, was mustered out at the end of its term of service, when Mr. 
Himebaugh resumed his studies at Lawrence University. In a few weeks, however, 
he re‑
enlisted and was mustered in as Second Lieutenant and Recruiting Officer to 
assist in raising the Forty-ninth Wisconsin Regiment. When the regimental roster 
was full he was mustered into service for three years, or during the war, as 
First Lieutenant of Company D (Captain J. H. Hauser), Forty-ninth Regiment 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Samuel Fallows commanding. Early in 1865 
he was sent with the regiment to St. Louis, Missouri, and soon after to Rolla, 
Missouri, where the regiment remained several months doing guard duty, during a 
portion of which time Mr. Himebaugh was on detached service as acting Depot and 
District Ordinance officer on General Brown's staff, who was then in command of 
the district. The Forty-ninth having been ordered back to St. Louis, when the 
posts at Rolla and Springfield, Missouri, were discontinued, Mr. Himebaugh 
rejoined his regiment and for several months was detached with his company on 
Post duty at Benton Barracks. In the fall of 1865 he was mustered out with his 
regiment at Madison, Wisconsin, and resumed his studies at Lawrence University, 
where he graduated in June, 1866, with the degree of B. S. In the winter of 1866 
and 1867 he engaged in the profession of teaching at Stevens' Point, Wisconsin. 
In the fall of 1867 he was appointed by Governor Lucius Fairchilds as assistant 
superintendent of public property in the State of Wisconsin, which position he 
held until the winter of 1874, when he resigned his office and engaged in 
mercantile pursuits in the city of Appleton, Wisconsin. He sold out his business 
in the spring of 1885, and in June of the same year moved to Stockton, 
California, where he was employed in real estate and insurance until October, 
1886, when, with his family, he removed to San Diego, where he engaged in 
insurance and real estate.
        He was married to Miss Ida J. Church, daughter of the late C. C. Church, 
of San Diego, at Atchison, Kansas, May 14, 1872. One daughter, Nellie M., born 
in Appleton, Wisconsin, has blessed the union. Mr. Himebaugh is a member of the 
Masonic fraternity, and of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the last his 
membership dates back to 1854. He believes prohibition will prohibit. His 
father, Peter Himebaugh, took part in the war of 1812, and his grandfather was a 
veteran of the Revolution, being in the army during all that long struggle. Mr. 
Himebaugh has several of the relics of the "time that tried men's souls," which 
formerly belonged to his grandfather.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  256-257