Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Essmiller, Henry 1862 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

HENRY ESSMILLER

TWENTY-EIGHT years ago this spring Henry Essmiller was employed by Fritz
Hagleman as a farm hand to labor on the farm which he now owns and inhabits is
his home at the meager wage of $150 per annum. Ten years later, in 1893—he
purchased the farm, and today is the owner of thirteen hundred and forty acres,
located as follows: The home place, seven and one-half miles west of Great Bend,
contains three hundred and eighty acres; one hundred and sixty in a nearby
section; an eighty acre tract, and a two hundred and forty acre tract near
Heizer, and four hundred and eighty acres near Rozel in Pawnee County. These
various tracts are all well improved and in a high state of cultivation. The
soil is rich and these are choice farms, selected for their productiveness from
the best body of lands in the entire State of Kansas. Besides this Mr. Essmiller
has other investments of considerable magnitude and some money drawing a good
rate of interest.

  When the family home, barns and various other buildings were erected, we
imagine that Mr. Essmiller was not as well fixed financially as he is today,
although everything is com-fcrtable and of a substantial nature. What we mean is
that there has been no attempt at display in fashioning his surroundings, but
every care has been taken that his family, help and live stock should have all
that is necessary for their comfort at the present, in order that greater and
better buildings may take their place at a future date. Every dollar invested
has been made to represent one hundred cents in betterment and has played . its
part in earning another dollar to buy more land. During harvest time and the
threshing season these farms present a busy scene with their army of laborers
garnering the golden grain, while other men work at plowing corn, mowing alfalfa
breaking the fields for seeding time. Then again at morning, noon and night,
when they gather around the board to partake of the bounteous fare, and go
singing about the barns and lots "doing their chores," which include the milking
of fifteen to eighteen cows, and caring for ether cattle, hogs, horses and mules
which are bred and worked on a farm like this.

[photo] Farm and  Home of Henry Essmiller

   Henry Essmiller was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, on January
30th, 1862, and emigrated to America when eighteen years of age. He made his
home in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin, for three years, and in 1883 came to Barton
County. He was married to Miss Delia Sandman of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, on
February 28th, 1889, and they have two children: Zelphia, wife of Henry Otte and
William D. Essmiller, who assists his father on the farm when not in school.


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