Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — Dies at the Age of 100. [ARTICLE]

Dies at the Age of 100.

John Fitzgibbon, aged 100, died on a farm near Bloomington, 111. With one exception he was the oldest man in McLean county. He had been blind two years, but up to the time he lost his sight was active and robust and able to do manual labor regularly. He was born in Tipperary, Ireland, and had lived here for fifty years.