Researched and Written By Brendon Scheib. In Large Softcovers, First Edition 2007, Colour and Black and White Photographs, illustrations, maps, family trees, 178 pages, Published By Wakefields Digital Wellington. A Near Fine Copy. "The Settler" is a German born man, Johann Nicholas Scheib, who followed the gold to Otago where he settled, initially in Frankton and then in Gibbston. In this book his life is followed in stark detail as he goes through many trials, in both definitions of that word. The stories of his children and also the 18 grand-children are also recorded here. The book concludes with a fascinating study of the origins of the Scheib family in Germany plus a look at the family of the settler's wife, Elizabeth Margaret Parsons' SCARCE.