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Hi Sibley
Hi Sibley, 1883-1971

Born South Bend, Indiana

Learned to drive as a teenager.

Attended University of Indiana, graduated with degree in Journalism

Worked in Chicago.

Worked for Packard in Detroit. Got married in Detroit. (passport application)

Went to Japan in 1917.

Worked as ambulance driver in World War; passport issued 1915. Drove in Belgium and France.

Moved to Pasadena 1919, 1920 census lists residence there.

Magazine articles from 1913; began do-it-yourself articles 1928. Went on to write over a thousand in a forty-year career; contributed to over fifty publications.

At his death in 1971, Popular Mechanics wrote: "We were saddened to learn recently of the death early this year of Hi Sibley, whose name many of you will recognize as a long-time contributor to PM. If there is such a title as "dean of do-it-yourself writers," we feel that over the years Hi surely earned it.  His first contribution to this magazine was in 1918." (November 1971