About Him
Jim Siberell has been involved with the Lincoln “Long Nine” Museum for over twenty years, beginning in about 2003 when he first visited the Museum. His association with former (and late) Museum Director, John Eden, also began at that time. Although then residing in southern Ohio, he was able to regularly come to the Athens area to visit the Museum, and where he and Eden would meet and “talk history”.
In 2006, Siberell and Eden co-authored “Looking at Abraham Lincoln’s land, the historic Sangamon region of central Illinois”. In 2009, he authored “Coming to Illinois – Abraham Lincoln and the ‘Long Nine of old Sangamon’ ”, which described the activities of Lincoln and the other “Long Nine” legislators, as well as some of their ancestors, up to the time when the “Long Nine” legislators themselves arrived in Illinois (by the early 1830s).
He has also authored two other books, both on the subject of Lincoln’s “Hanks” ancestry, as well as a number of articles for the “Lincoln Herald” journal. He is a retired Engineer, with a 29-year career in several Engineering/Construction companies.
