Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Essmiller, William 1849 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

WILLIAM ESSMILLER

THIRTY-TWO years has wrought great changes in the life of William Essmiller, and
it is a pleasant task to record his success as a citizen of Barton County. He
was born December 9, 1849, in the Province of Hanover, Germany, on a farm, and
worked for his parents until coming to the United States in 1871. He first
settled in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin, and worked as a farm hand until 1879,
when he came to Barton County and made his home with Fred H. Miller, (a former
school mate in the Old Country,) from whom he drew pay at the rate of $15 per
month. Finally he and his brother Deitrich inherited about $2,000 from an estate
in Germany and they formed a partnership under the name of Essmiller Brothers
and bought railroad land. Their business was farming, but they bought, improved,
sold and traded in lands when they had earned a surplus invested, and until a
few years ago both families occupied the home on the D. Essmiller farm. Recently
they have made a division of their holdings, and Wm. Essmiller owns his home
farm, four miles west of Great Bend, which covers four hundred and eighty acres;
eighty acres near Heizer, four hundred and eighty in Pawnee County, and a half
interest in another section in Pawnee County, north of Rozel. These several
tracts are all well improved and in cultivation, and are the choice bodies in
their localities. The home farm is improved with a one story six room frame
dwelling; a 36x66 barn with large hay loft and stalls for twenty horses;
twenty-four milk cattle, and accommodation for twenty-four loose animals. The
granary is 24x40 and there is a dairy and other small outbuildings. Wheat, corn
and alfalfa are the principal crops grown, but stock breeding is fast taking
root on this farm, and a herd of thoroughbred Shorthorn cattle were in evidence,
and numerous horses and mules of the best breeds, for farm purposes. Mrs.
Essmiller has her White Leghorn chickens and grows them for market, and in her
model dairy makes fifty pounds of golden butler weekly to supply her city trade.
She is a madel housewife and has labored faithfully with her husband to achieve
success.


[photo] Farm Home of William Essmiller


  William Essmiller and Miss Mary Nietfield, of Hanover, Germany, were married
on September 12, 1882, in Barton County, Kansas, and they have one son, Robert
H. Essmiller, who resides with his parents and assists in the management of the
farms.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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