Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Buse, Fred T. 1863 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

FRED T. BUSE.

    Energy and enterprise coupled with sagacity have made the successful
business man Fred T. Buse and brought him to prominent rank among the citizens
of Lake county as well as in the other places where his life of activity has
been passed. He is now classed among the progressive and prosperous
agriculturists of West Creek township, and stands high in the estimation of all
who know him.

    He is a native of Dubuque, Iowa, where he was born September 13, 1863, being
the fifth in a family of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to
Christian and Hannah (Ponta) Buse. Five of these children are yet living:
William, who is connected with the commercial activity of Dubuque, and is a man
of family; Sena, wife of Henry Ehlers, who is connected with the police force in
Washington, D. C.; Charles, a saleman in a hardware establishment at Dubuque,
and also married; Fred T.; and Ida K., wife of Robert Knoll, a machinist of
Dubuque. The father and mother of this family were natives of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany, and the former was born May 9, 1826, and died
July 4, 1900. He learned the trade of mechanic, and remained in his fatherland
until he was a grown man. He served for four years in the German army. He came
across the Atlantic in a sailing vessel, and from New York went to Cleveland,
and thence to Louisville, Kentucky, and then followed the Mississippi as far
north as Dubuque, where he permanently established himself. He was a stanch
Republican, and he and his wife were members of the German Lutheran church. His
wife, Mrs. Hannah Buse, was born April 11, 1827, and at the age of seventy-seven
enjoys fine health.

    Mr. Fred T. Buse spent the early years of his life in Dubuque, and received
his education in the city schools. At the age of sixteen he began his career by
working for wages, and from a beginning without any money capital nor with any
subsequent material assistance, he has attained by his own efforts an honorable
and comfortable position in the world of affairs. He was in Dubuque until 1886,
and then for two years he was employed as a brakeman on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul Railroad, his run being from Savannah, Illinois, to La Crosse,
Wisconsin. He was next a baggage master and express messenger for the same road
until 1893, running from McGregor, Iowa, to La Crosse. Then for a year he was
baggage master from Savannah to La Crosse, and during 1894 he weighed United
States mail on the Milwaukee & St. Paul road from McGregor to Chicago. He was
then on a way-freight of the same road during a part of 1895-96.

    October 2, 1895, he married Mrs. Grace M. (Bailey) Barhite. They have one
son, Elliott E., born in Dubuque, October 20, 1896, and who is now in the second
grade of school. Mrs. Buse was born June 5, 1867, being a daughter of Josiah B.
and Nancy E. (Kile) Bailey—one of the oldest and most prominent families of Lake
county and whose history appears on other pages of this work. Mrs. Buse was
educated in the common schools of this county, and on December 21, 1887, was
married to Adelbert Barhite, from which union there was one son, Ceylon A., who
was born October 18, 1888, and who recently graduated from the graded school of
the township and in 1904 entered the Lowell high school.

    After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Buse were located in Dubuque for a time,
and he was then engaged in the manufacture of harness at West Salem, Wisconsin,
in the firm of Wakefield & Buse. He was also interested in the La Crosse Leather
Company, and for a time was on the road for that concern, his territory being
South Dakota, southern Minnesota and central Wisconsin. After about a year in
this latter business he sold out his interests, and he and his wife then came to
Lake county and located on the old Bailey homestead in West Creek township. This
place is known as the Hickory Grove farm, and contains two hundred and eighty
acres of as fine soil as can be found in Lake county. Not only the entire
farmstead is a beautiful and profitable estate, but the home is one of comfort
and cheer such as is not met with at every turn of the road. Mr. Buse is
devoting much of his time and attention to the raising of Hereford cattle. He is
an enthusiastic and progressive agriculturist in the true sense of the word, and
is interested not only in making his farm a source of profit but in causing it
to be a property of beauty such as he or anyone might take pride to call his
own. He has recently built a fine modern granary, forty by thirty-six feet, and
twenty feet high, with concrete walls and floor, and also in the same style of
construction is his tool shed, sixteen by forty feet.

    Mr. Buse is a stanch Republican, and cast his first presidential vote for
Tames G. Blaine. He fraternizes with Lodge No. 300 of the Knights of Pythias at
Lowell.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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