Husband of Margret nee Newcomer. Son of Henry & Rosanna (Seibert) Kostenbader.

See attached obituaries for more information.

The History of Stephenson County, Illinois; Chicago; Western Historical Company; 1880; Pages 687 and 688:

"AARON KOSTENBADEN [sp], farmer. Sec. 17; P. 0. Freeport; born in Columbia Co., Penn., March 22, 1817; left there in 1823, and went to Union Co., where he stayed till 23 years of age; went, in 1840, to Hancock Co., Ohio; from there to Seneca Co., where he worked at cabinet-work, and has made all his own furniture; is now making his sons'. He stayed in Seneca Co. until coming here; he was a single man when he arrived in Stephenson Co., Ill., November of 1845; he then returned to his native State, in 1846, and, in 1847, returned to Illinois, and, in the fall, married Miss Margaret Newcomb [sp], of Pennsylvania; the marriage took place four miles from the city of Freeport, at her home, now called the Reasoner farm; after 17 years of married life, his wife died, in May, 1864; he has since been a widower. He owns 334 acres, valued at $60 per acre; near his house, he has one of the best stone-quarries in the State, if properly opened; curious to say, he has been on the farm without intermission for twenty-six years, except a visit to Cedarville of three years. His politics are Republican; Fremont was his first candidate. He belongs to the German Reform Church. It is a curious fact, that his father had a family of ten boys, all alive, and the oldest is now 70. Of his present neighbors, Murdaugh came before he did two years, and Flausburg one year. He had eight children by his marriage —Samuel, Susanna, Lizzie, Henry, Jacob, Reuben, Daniel and Solomon. Samuel, his oldest, in October, 1875, married Miss Mary Ann Crow; he is a carpenter and farmer; built his own house (and owns 40 acres in Sec. 16); Samuel and his wife are at John Smallwood's house; she is a native of this State; they have two children named Laura Mabel and Aaron."