Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Gruber, Anton 1864 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

ANTON GRUBER

ONE of the men who has seen this county grow from an almost barren waste is the
subject of this sketch, Antone Gruber. He is a son of John Gruber who located
one of the first homesteads in Buffalo township. Antone was born in Austria and
came to this county with his parents in 1871 after having spent three years in
the State of Michigan. When the family arrived in this country Antone was seven
years of age having been born in 1864. He first worked in this county helping
his father hunt buffaloes, thousands of which were roaming what is now the most
highly cultivated land in the county. He now farms 80 acres of land in Buffalo
township on which is located his home place. He has a good set of improvements.
The residence contains five rooms in addition to the closets, pantries, etc. The
barn is 32 by 20 in dimensions and is arranged for taking care of a large number
of head of stock. He was married in 1892 to Miss Lena Schlim who was also born
in this county in Clarence township.

Her parents were also among the first permanent settlers in the county. They are
the parents of three children as follows: Mary, 17 years of age and (Marguerite
who died when she was seven years of age, in 1907) and an adopted boy whose name
is George and is seven years of age. Mr. Gruber is one of the men who came to
this county when he was yet a child and has had a great deal to do with its
development and upbuilding. He has always taken an interest in public matters
and has held township and school board offices at different times. He is one of
the few residents of the county who can recall the days of Old Fort Zarah and
who saw the buffalo when they were almost as thick as ever they were and saw
them gradually disappear and make way for plowed fields and cultivated farms.
His home place is located just east of his father's home and his brother who is
now dead and mentioned in another part of this history was the first white child
born in Barton county.


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