Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Essmiller, Diedrich 1853 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

DIEDRICH ESSMILLER

THE name Essmiller is the synonym of prosperity in Barton County, because the
Essmiller Bros, have made a success of farming, breeding and selling stock just
west of Great Bend, and are well known and highly respected in the community.
The second brother, Diedrich Essmiller, came to Barton County in 1880, and
settled one mile south of his present location. He now lives five and one-half
miles northwest of the county seat on the best improved section of land in the
county. His first purchase was the Noah Brumbaugh homestead, and later the other
three quarters. He has the entire tract in the very highest state of cultivation
and his buildings are among the best, most convenient and commodious in his
neighborhood. His house and barns are located about midway of the section on the
east side, and are on the highest point on the farm. The house has 13 rooms, is
a frame building and painted pure white. He has a number of windmills pumping
sparkling water from deep driven wells on the premises, and this is piped to the
house for drinking and bathing, and to the barns and lots for watering stock.
His buildings are lighted by an acetylene plant and supplied with other
conveniences. The barns are among the largest in the county and will store the
crops produced on the section, as well as house the work animals, cattle and
hogs grown and in use on a place of this size.

[photo] Farm Home of Diedrich Essmiller

   Diedrich Essmiller was born in the Province of Hanover, Germany, September
27th, 1853, and is fifty-three years of age. He came to this country in 1872 at
the age of nineteen and settled in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin, where he pursued
the occupation of a farm hand for the succeeding eight years. In November, 1878,
he was married to Miss Dora Weingarten, of LaCrosse County, Wisconsin, and they
have a daughter and son, Lillie H, and Arnold F., both children making their
home with their parents on the farm, although Miss Lillie was united in marriage
to Kirby Evers on October llth, 1906. There is a grandson, Elmer, a sturdy
little farmer of eleven years, who assists his grandfather in the management of
the estate. Besides the section mentioned above Mr. Essmiller is a joint owner
with his brother Will in three quarters in Pawnee County, Kansas, which is well
improved, and is known to have other interests and investments in the county.

  When Mr. Essmiller settled in Barton County he was a comparatively poor man,
and what he has has been accumulated by the hardest of work under adverse
circumstances. The last few years, however, he has retired from laborous work,
contenting himself with looking on and directing while his son and son-in-law,
who lease the farm, perform the heavier duties. His success is the result of
good judgment and hard work, and by being fortunate in selecting a kind of soil
which has responded to his continued effort.



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