Ivan Newton Hewitt, known as "Jibo," was born November 21, 1902, in Nashville,
  Kansas, to Frank P. and Ida L. (Sleeper) Hewitt. A graduate of Medicine Lodge
  High, Jibo studied at Kansas University and George Washington University.
     Jibo was a businessman, promotor, and inventor. A teenage venture was the
  operation of Medicine Lodge Opera House. His multiple occupations included
  owner of "The Sweet Shop" and Hewitt Sales Company with twenty salesman whole-
  saling variety store merchandise in four states; co-inventor of wheel alignment
  tools and creator of the manufacturing company which sold them throughout the
  nation and Canada; builder-owner of Gyp Hills Motel and Cafe; and owner of 20 
  business buildings which he refurbished and sold.
     Politically he was president of both county and state Young Democrats
  organizations; an employee of U.S. Treasury Department; appointive Kansas
  Treasurer; State Parole Officer; and Kansas Centennial Celebration's Executive
  Director; National President of U.S. Highway 160 Association and U.S. Highway
  281 Association; and Mayor of Medicine Lodge at the time of his death.
     All civic responsibilities cannot be enumerated; they included Easter Sunrise
  Service Secretary; Lions Club President and Southwest Kansas District Governor;
  Kansas Junior Chamber of Commerce oficer; creator of Highway 160's "Cedar Tree
  Lane"; co-organizer of Barber County Historical Society and catalyst for 30
  other societies in Kansas; first county March-of-Dimes Chairman; a member of
  Wichita Consistory and Midian Shrine; Publicity Chairman of Peace Treaty Pageants
  and always a participant, in later years portraying Kit Carson.
     Jibo provided all research and assisted Nellie Yost in the writing of Medicine
  Lodge - The Story of a Kansas Frontier Town, a book published a month after
  Jibo's death in 1970.
     Always promoting Medicine Lodge in his extensive sales work travels, Jibo was
  known abroad as "Mr Medicine Lodge."
     After a five year courtship, Jibo and Bessie Harbaugh were married December 7,
  1932, in the First Methodist Church, Wichita. Daughter of J.B. "Ben" and Mary
  (Gronemiar) Harbaugh, "Bess" was born October 25, 1906, on a farm eight miles
  south of Medicine Lodge. A graduate of Medicine Lodge High. Bess worked seven
  years as a stenographer for Best Bros. and Keene's Cement Company.
     The Hewitt's home ha been 104 East Central since 1933. Jibo was first a
  Presbyterian; later both belonged to the United Methodist Church. Bess is a
  member of PEO, Eastern Star, Just-a-Matron Club and a bridge club started in
  1945. She participated in Peace Treaty Pageants from their inception - during
  with her father in the Covered Wagon episode, later in the Fiesta scene.
     Daughters Dorothy Ann and Marilyn Kay were born in Wichita but lived and
  attended school in Medicine Lodge. Both are uniquely gifted with artistic talents 
  also evident in their children.
     Dorothy's husband, Gary Parker, shares with his father in the operation of the
  local Parkers' Foodliner. Dorothy assists when needed. Their family includes
  Julie and husband, Kenneth Jones; Amy and husband, Mick Whelan; and sons Brad and
  Bill. Marilyn Hensley is a cosmetologist in Derby, Kansas, and the mother of
  Elizabeth.
               
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 227