PHILIP H. HOEBEL, of the firm of Hoebel & Moogk, druggists, is a native of Stephenson County, and born in the city of Freeport on the 6th of December, 1853. He is the son of John Hoebel, who was a native of Germany, and was born in 1825 (see sketch of John Hoebel.) Philip H. Hoebel lived and attended school in the city of Freeport during his boyhood; later he entered the German American Academy at Milwaukee, Wis., studied for eighteen months, and then returned to Freeport, entering the drug-store of F. Weise as apprentice, and served in that capacity for four years. Mr. Hoebel then went to Chicago, where he was employed as a clerk in the establishment of J. W. Ehrman, a noted pharmacist, with whom he remained four years. From Chicago he went to Eau Claire, Wis., where he clerked in a drug-store for another four years, at the expiration of which time he returned to Freeport and began business on his own account. He formed a partnership with Mr. H. J. Moogk, and they embarked in the drug trade in January, 1880. The firm has continued without interruption from that time. Their place of business is Nos. 103 and 104 Chicago street, at the crossing of Galena street. The firm carries a large and well-selected stock of drugs and fancy goods. Both partners are practical druggists, and Mr. Hoebel is particularly competent, having had long service in establishments in other cities where competency and carefulness were the two qualities which secured permanent employment, and his extreme care and proficient knowledge of the business obviate any of those serious mistakes which sometimes occur in compound-ing prescriptions.

Contributed by Carol Parrish - Portrait and Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Ill. (1888), p. 270