Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Meyer, August 1847 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

AUGUST MEYER

ONE of the most successful farmers in Barton County, residing south of the
river, is the subject of this sketch, August Meyer. He was born in Germany,
January 8, 1847 and came to America when he was twenty years of age. He with his
brother, Henry Meyer, first located in Chicago where he remained for about a
year. He then came to Salina, Kansas, where he spent about six months, then
going to Ellsworth, where he remained about the same length of time. He came to
Barton County in 1869. He took up a homestead in Buffalo township at a time
before the Indians and buffaloes had left this part of the country. He is the
oldest settler now residing south of the river and has one of the nicest home
places to be found in the county. The home place contains 160 acres in section
12, South Bend township, and he also owns a quarter in section 13, eighty in
section 19 and owns a half section in Gray County and the same amount of land in
Meade County. He farms a half section and rents the remainder of his land in
this county. He has a fine, modern home which contains nine rooms, a bath,
closets and pantries. It is thoroughly modern in every way. Mr. Meyer has been
married three times and is the father of six children: Frank, 30 years of age;
August, 23; Emma, 21; Charlie, 19, and Edward, 17, and William 15 years of age.
The home place has a fine barn 30 by 36 feet well built and modern and a fine
elevator with a capacity of 7,000 bushels of grain. Mr. Meyer is one of the most
successful of the farmers of Barton County and has earned all that he has by
intelligent farming methods applied with knowledge gained by experience. He is
one of the really old timers of this county and can tell many interesting
incidents of the early days in which he took a large part.

[photo] Home of August Meyer



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