Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Miller, Henry 1857 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

HENRY MILLER

THE subject of this sketch was born May 27th, 1857, near Bremen, Germany, and at
this writing is in his fifty-fifth year. He came to America with his parents
when seven years old and settled in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin. He received his
education in the public schools of the neighborhood, and until he was
twenty-five worked for his father on the farm. In the spring of 1883 he came to
Barton County, and in 1890 bought a part of his present holdings from Fred H.
Miller, who was an earlier purchaser from the Santa Fe Railway Company. He has
since added other parcels until his home place embraces a whole section. His
location is six miles west of the court house at Great Bend, and his farm is in
the highest state of cultivation. His buildings are new, commodious, substantial
and convenient, and built to house a growing family and to care for the crops
and stock necessary on a large farm. His machinery and farm implements are of
the up-to-date Kansas farmer kind, as is everything else on the Miller homestead.

[photo] Farm and Home of Henry Miller

  Besides the section on which he lives, Mr. Miller owns a quarter out of
section 5, near Heizer; one hundred acres of section 2, Buffalo township, and
four hundred and eighty acres in Rush County, one mile south of Necoma.

   In November, 1883, Henry F. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Sophia
Sandman, of LaCrosse County, Wisconsin. The ceremony was performed in Great
Bend, Miss Sandman having journeyed from her northern home to assist her future
husband in making his fortune on what was then considered the Kansas plains. The
union has been blessed by five children, viz: Georgia N., the wife of W. C.
Otte, a farmer, living northeast of Heizer; Edna, wife of Frank Case, farmer,
four miles north of Heizer; and Ernie, Robert and William who are still single
and at home.

   The success of Mr. Miller is the result of good judgment, economy and hard
work during the first years of his residence in. the county. He has faced
conditions that were tragedies, which, is the usual lot of the man who tills the
soil and depends on the elements to provide the moisture that makes them grow.
During the twenty-eight years which he has resided in Barton County there has
been harvests that were almost complete failures, and which barely provided seed
and feed for the next year. Many crops have been bumper yielders and have made
Barton County famous as a wheat producer.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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