Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Deckert, Andrew J. 1877 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

ANDREW J. DECKERT

THE man who can pay 36 per cent interest on borrowed  money, through a period of
hard times and poor crop years is bound to come out on top. That sort of
perseverance tells shortly and plainly how and why Andrew J. Deckert of
"Plainview  Farm," six miles north of Pawnee Rock and 15 miles southwest of the
county seat has amassed the comfortable fortune that he possesses. Andrew J.
Deckert was born January 13, 1865, in Russian-Poland, and while only a baby his
father died. His mother married Peter H. Dirks and Andrew Deckert was eight
years of age when he came to this county with his mother and step-father in the
winter of 1863. The family located on the timber claim of 160 acres on section
6, two and one-half miles northwest of Dundee, but now live ten miles southwest
of Great Bend.

   Andrew started out for himself when he became of age and on November 18, 1886
was married to Miss Susan Boese of Pawnee Rock township. Ten children were born
to the union: Minnie who married Henry Jantzen and Anna who married Louis
Jantzen, both of Pawnee County. The other children live at home.

[photo] Farm Home of Andrew J. Deckert

   Mr. and Mrs. Deckert started in 1886 with nothing and it wasn't long until
they thought they had even less than that. They rented land at first and while
crops were of varying yields managed to get along. Then is 1891 when he had
saved $1,000, he bought a farm and made this as a payment on the same. There
were four years of bad crops and he lost the entire payment. Undaunted he went
ahead, paid 36 per cent interest on borrowed money and in 1896 paid out on a new
contract which he had made for farm land. He now owns 320 acres of land in
section 7, the home place, 160 acres over in section 8 and 160 acres in Pawnee
County. The home place is one of the modernly improved farms of the county and
is fixed up in the best of shape. The house is a one and a half story structure,
containing 11 rooms, the upper story being arranged with dormer windows in the
gables which give the house a good appearance and leaves plenty of room. There
are large barns and other buildings and one of the chief buildings of interest
on the farm is a large elevator, which houses 9,000 bushels of grain.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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