1912 Biographical History of Barton County, Kansas

Transcribed from Biographical history of Barton County, Kansas. ; Illustrated. Published by Great Bend Tribune, Great Bend, KS : 1912. 318 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Transcribed by Carolyn Ward, July 2006.

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BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

OF

BARTON COUNTY, KANSAS

DEDICATED

To the pioneers of this section of Kansas to whom too much credit cannot be given for undergoing the hardships and privations that were necessary in reclaiming that part of the Great American Desert now known as Barton County, Kansas, one of the richest and most prosperous sections of the country where the homes of the residents are surrounded by all that makes life worth living, where the best of educational and religious advantages are found and where the people are happy, progressive and contented.

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GREAT BEND, KANSAS
PUBLISHED BY GREAT BEND TRIBUNE
Copyright Applied For 1912.

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PREFACE PREHISTORIC EARLIEST EXPLORATIONS QUIVERA—KANSAS SUBSEQUENT EXPLORATIONS SCOUTING ADVENTURES IN 1853 INDIAN FIGHT AT THE ARKANSAS FIGHT ON THE WALNUT FIGHT AT THE ROCK FIGHT AT MOUNT AUBREY LARNED IN 1860 A PIONEER'S EXPERIENCE ANOTHER INCIDENT OLD FORT ZARAH OTHER RUINS. CEMETERY. RESERVATION. FORT ABANDONED. INDIAN TROUBLES. SKETCH OF PIONEER LIFE PURSUED BY WOLVES. RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY DAYS OUR FIRST BUFFALO HUNT. THE CHASE. CASTING OUT SERPENTS. LAND AGENT BUSINESS COMMENCED. A MISHAP. ZARAH SURVEYED.

GREAT BEND TOWN COMPANY. STRIFE FOR THE COUNTY SEAT. CATTLE TRADE. INTRODUCTION TO KANSAS JUNCTION CITY. STILL GO WEST. ELLSWORTH. MAN FOR BREAKFAST. LAST SERVICE. DIDN'T WANT A CLAIM. WESTWARD HO! AGAIN. MEET AN OLD SETTLER. LADY BUFFALO HUNTER. IN SEARCH FOR A HOME. TRY AGAIN. VIEW OF PROMISED LAND. FIND AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE. FALL IN WITH ROBBERS. SLIP AWAY. SAFE AT LAST. THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE EARLY REMINISCENCES GEORGE NELSON MOSES FIRST CENSUS OF BARTON COUNTY 1872 OFFICIALS OF BARTON COUNTY FROM 1872 TO 1912 AN EARLY DAY INCIDENT IRRIGATION CAMPAIGN BEGAN IN GREAT BEND

• CATHOLIC CHURCHES OF BARTON COUNTY

  Great Bend Church Odin Church Claflin Church Dubuque Church

  Ellinwood St. Peter and Paul's Church Five Miles North of Ellinwood Olmitz Church Hoisington Catholic Church

THE BLIZZARD OF 1871 BUFFALO HUNTING BY TENDERFEET AN INDIAN BATTLE WHEN WATER WAS HARD TO GET HENRY FRUIT'S EXPERIENCE

THE GARDEN SPOT OF THE WORLD HIS FIRST FEE AND OTHER REMINISCENCES THE KILLING OF ARCHIE B. CLEMENTS THE MENNONITE COLONY NEAR DUNDEE

• SETTLEMENTS

  Buffalo Township Great Bend Township Lakin Township Walnut Township Eureka Township Clarence Township Comanche Township South Bend Township Pawnee Rock Township

  Logan Township Homestead Township Fairview Township Beaver Township Union and Wheatland Townships Cheyenne Township Cleveland Township Albion and Grant Townships Independent Township

  GEORGE TOWERS EARLY POLITICAL HISTORY AN EARLY DAY CAMPAIGN AND BARBECUE IN BARTON NEWSPAPERS OF BARTON COUNTY A FEW INCIDENTS WILLIS W. WINSTEAD JOHN EVERS AMEND BROS, DENTISTS L. G. MECKLEM JAKE MILLER JOSEPH H. TROILLET W. H. KERR JACOB A. DIRKS BENJAMIN H. UNRUH CLARENCE E. HOLMES JOHN F. LEWIS ELRICK C. COLE O. W. DAWSON THE BRINKMAN FAMILY HEIZER ALBERT OLMITZ THE DODGE FAMILY ALBERT NICHOLAS MERTEN JACOB B. and PETER C. BRACK ALFRED L. POWELL AMOS JOHNSON GUSTAVTUS A. WOODBURN JOSEPH SCHNEIDER SAMUEL GIBSON YEO JOHN EDWARD COSS JOHN FRANK BALES JOHN BERSCHEIDT, Jr. NICHOLAS WILLIAM KLEPPER PAUL SCHMIDT AMASA C. MOSES AND FAMILY FREDERICK SCHUELKE WILLIAM HENRY ROGERS HENRY C. COOK EDWIN TYLER LEVI GUNN MERRITT-SCHWIER CREAMERY CO. JOHN DONOVAN TOBIAS McGILL C. B. WORDEN AUGUST FENN JOHN EVERETT FRED V. AMERINE JOHN GRUBER ANTON GRUBER FRANK P. SHAFFER HENRY SCHWIER EDWARD GRANT BUCKLAND FRANK MERTEN

  BERT TRESTER ABRAHAM LINCOLN LANGFORD SEVIER H. HEDRICK WILLIAM CHRIST OTTE DANIEL GREEN BIRD JULIUS BOTH WILLIAM ESSMILLER HANS JURGENSEN GEORGE ADAM GElL WILLIAM WERHAHN "GOLDEN GRAIN FARM" MRS. KATIE LEROY HERMAN TAMMEN "GREENWOOD FARM" HENRY WITTE FRANCIS SPANIOL FREDERICK HENRY WOLF THOMAS BUTLER JOHNSON WILLIAM MULL CHRISTIAN S. SCHULTZ JOHN C. BAUER JOHN LILE THE KEENAN ESTATE SAMUEL C. SCHULTZ HENRY C. SCHULTZ ANDREW J. DECKERT FRED TRAUER WILLIAM JAMES FEE MICHAEL JAMES KEENAN ARTHUR LERAY FISH CHRISTIAN KOOPMAN ESTATE THOMPSON OAKLEY COLE RUDOLPH LUDWIG BOESE ORRIS ALBERT BROWN GEORGE WASHINGTON TUCKER AUGUST MAUSOLF JOSIAH CLINTON WEATHERS MRS. F. E. ELLIOTT JOHN OLIVER TUCKER LOUIS PLANKENHORN WILLIAM HENRY MAYBACH JOHN ALLISON HOGE ROBERT ARTHUR BIDLEMAN HENRY BENJAMIN UNRUH ELDRIDGE YORK WILLIAM HARRISON RUSSELL WILLIAM GAGELMAN GEORGE RICHARD HARDERS DIEDRICH ESSMILLER HENRY MILLER JOHN ALBERT MAUSOLF IRA D. BROUGHER MRS. ISABEL PATTERSON CHARLES E. BUTTON JOSEPH THIES

• ºººº Pawnee Rock ºººº

  BEGINNING OF THE TOWN PRESERVING THE ROCK How the Money Was Raised PAWNEE ROCK'S BIG DAY EXPERIENCE WILLIAM S. M'DOUGAL FARMERS AND MERCHANTS STATE BANK PAWNEE ROCK STATE BANK GRANT LIPPINCOTT THOMAS HENDERSON BREWER NEWTON PHILLIP SMITH JAMES H. FLICK FRANCIS T. BELT P. H. WILLIS THOMAS HENRY MORRIS WILLIAM M. LEWIS WILLIAM T. WARNER STEPHEN J. WILLIAMS WILLIAM H. BOWMAN HENRY SMITH EVERITT ANDREW GEIL WILLIAM OTTE BOYD EVERS J. P. DIRKS GEORGE BAUER PAUL FRANCIS AND MELISSA ANN SCHNECK PETER J. DECKERT WILLIAM VARNUM ADAMS

  J. W. SODERSTROM GEORGE LEWIS BESSLER WILSON M. ZIEBER JAMES R. EWING HENRY ESSMILLER HARRY HOARD HOLMES FARM OF RUHE BROS. THOMAS HENRY WHITE FRED DUMKOW GUSTAV SELLE GEORGE WASHINGTON HART F. H. EWING JAMES THOMAS McDONALD PAUL JAMES PASCOE JOST WARNKEN AUGUST MEYER JOHN PHILLIP GALLON ALBERT FRED BATCHMAN FRANK GILLMORE McKINNEY WILLIAM W. AND LUCY HULL HARTSHORN HENRY SCHAEFFER FERDNAND C. MANETH CHARLES B. HOWELL OTIS EVERS JAMES SHELDON WINGET HENRY MEYER LESLIE JAMES CARAWAY GEORGE PARKER WILSON

• ºººº Hoisington ºººº

  PEOPLES STATE BANK, HOISINGTON RAILROAD Y. M. C. A. LIND HOSPITAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL

  HENRY A. C. HARTMAN ROY CORNELIUS

• ººººº Ellinwood ºººº

  Schools THE WOLF MILLING CO. JOHN McMULLEN EDWARD L. SMITH

  CITIZENS STATE BANK, ELLINWOOD PEOPLES STATE BANK J. H. D. BOSSE

• ºººº Great Bend ºººº

  BUSINESS HISTORY OF GREAT BEND BUILDING THE COURT HOUSE ST. ROSE HOSPITAL ST. MARY'S ACADEMY

  BARTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS GREAT BEND SCHOOLS. HIGH SCHOOL.

• GREAT BEND CHURCHES

  First Congregational Church St. John's Episcopal Church Methodist Episcopal Church Baptist Church Presbyterian Church

  Christian Church Roman Catholic Church German Lutheran Church The Colored Churches

A CAKE THAT BROUGHT $677.50 FIRST NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION A BANQUET IN HONOR OF CASSIUS M. MOSES FIRST SETTLERS IN GREAT BEND ROBERT MERTEN FRED C. LUDWIG JIM GAINSFORD JOHN TILTON E. R. MOSES MERCANTILE CO. E. R. MOSES, Sr. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK DAN WORTH BANTA—Violinist LUTELLUS BALDWIN CHARLES ANDRESS AMERICAN COURSING CLUB EARLY BARTON COUNTY HISTORY Extracts From an Old Diary Kept by D. N. Heizer, 1871-72 FIRST SCHOOL MEETING IN BARTON COUNTY. THE FIRST CITY CAUCUS. THE FIRST SUNDAY SCHOOL ORGANIZED AT GREAT BEND. OUR FIRST COUNTY CONVENTION. T. L. STONE PATENT ISSUED FOR CITY OF GREAT BEND MAYORS OF GREAT BEND BARTON COUNTY SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION JOHN WEST PASCOE RICHARD TAYLOR GREAT BEND POSTOFFICE BENEVOLENT PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS No. 1127 CHARLES A. HOOPER FIRST NATIONAL BANK E. L. CHAPMAN PETER BRACK ANDREW JACKSON HOISINGTON DR. AARON HENRICK CONNETT

CHRIS GILSON'S TRIAL DUNCAN BOTTLING WORKS JUDGE DAN A. BANTA CHARLES L. GUNN DR. SIMEON JESSIE SHAW FRED NUTTLEMAN—(Nuttleman Manufacturing Co.) GEORGE H. HULME DON A. WELTMER LOUIS P. AND KATE A. FREY GREAT BEND ICE, FUEL AND STORAGE CO. MARION F. SOWARDS THE LAKE IN CHEYENNE BOTTOMS WILLIAM R. BUNTING AN INCIDENT IN 1865 PLEASANTDALE—(Schoenthal) C. F. DIFFENBACHER GEORGE W. NIMOCKS ANDREW SEIBERT—"Dundee Valley Farm" LOUIS DAMM—"Fairfield Farm" MAX CRESTON SHAFER HUGH B. BYERS TOBIAS B. UNRUH JOHN WILSON DENBO SAMUEL BENJAMIN COMFORT FRANK NICHOLAS BATCHMAN DENNIS RUDOLPH LOGAN HENRY GAGELMAN SAMUEL H. GWINN JACOB ALEFS PATRICK EMMET MURPHY HENRY JAMES CAMPBELL JOHN TULLIS MORRISON DANIEL MILLER, Sr. JUDGE CHANNEL P. TOWNSLEY CALVIN QUINCY NEWCOMBE PATRICK BOUGHAN ARKANSAS VALLEY TELEPHONE COMPANY

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  BERT FANCHER

  IRA HAMILTON CLARK

THE GREAT BEND TRIBUNE.

Press Work.

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