Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Bales, John Frank 1876 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

JOHN FRANK BALES

JOHN FRANK BALES, or Colonel John Bales as he is better known, was born in Green
County, Tennessee, April 18, 1876, and went with his parents to Missouri when he
was four years of age. He remained there until 1900 when he came to Barton
County, Kansas, where he has since resided and taken an active part in the
development of the county's resources. He owns 320 acres, of land in section 6,
Great Bend township and farms a section and a half in that part of the county,
and for the past several years has made a specialty of buying and selling
cattle. It is doubtful if there are a dozen farmers in Barton County who do not
know John Bales personally because whenever there has been a public sale of any
nature during the past four years, almost invariably his name will be found on
the sale bills. In this profession Mr. Bales has earned more than an ordinary
reputation. His keen business sense, his knowledge of values on all goods he is
called upon to sell, and his belief in a square deal have all contributed to his
success in this line of work. As an auctioneer there is no man who is better or
more favorably known in this section of the state than Mr. Bales. His home place
has a good set of improvements including a five room residence, a barn 72 by 42
feet in dimensions and all other necessary outbuildings. Mr. Bales was married
in 1905 to Miss Dora Kay of Coffeyville, Kansas, and they have one bright little
girl, Ruth, three years of age, and another, Helen, who at this writing is eight
months old. Mrs. Bales is a native of this county, having been born south of the
river. Mr. Bales has always been among the most active residents of the county
in its development and making of it one of the best in the State of Kansas and
placing it among the most productive in the entire county.


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