Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Schuelke, Frederick 1840 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

FREDERICK SCHUELKE

THE property of Frederick Schuelke, "Locust Grove Farm," thirteen miles west
from Great Bend, takes its name from the many locust trees included in a five
acre grove surrounding the home. These trees are forty years old, are very
beautiful and thrifty, and are the result of a timber claim set in trees in 1871
by John Bement.

   Frederick Schuelke was born in Germany en February 19th, 1840, and came to
America in May, 1874. He first located in Wauwatose, Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin, where he worked in a nursery and a pickling factory for a time, and
also engaged in farming and at other work. He remained until March 4th, 1885,
when he removed to Greattinger, Palo Alto County, Iowa, and engaged in farming
on his own account as a renter, and then in 1888 was employed as the manager and
superintendent of a large farm on salary. Resigning this position after several
years he purchased a farm of four hundred acres and cultivated this until he
sold out and came to Barton County on March 1st, 1901. He purchased his present
one hundred and sixty acres from John Bement and paid for the quarter three 
thousand dollars. Since then he has built a very nice seven room, story and
one-half frame dwelling, large barn, granary and other buildings, at a cost of
$2,500, and today has one of the most desirable little farms in the county. It
is well improved, well fenced, well shaded, and the house and grounds are in the
coolest spot in the county on a summer's day, and well sustains the name given
the farm.

   Frederick Schuelke was married on February 16th, 1863, to Miss Anna Giesel,
of the same section of Germany from which he came, and she died in Barton County
on August 2nd, 1907, slightly over six years after coming to Kansas. They are
the parents of six children, two of whom still live in Wisconsin. Those who
reside in this state are: Mrs. Ida Hans, of Great Bend; Mrs. Minnie Gruenwald,
of Rush County; Herman Schuelke, Lyons, Kansas and Conrad Schuelke, who is
married and resides on the place with his father and manages the farm. Conrad
Schuelke was married on April 18, 1906, and they are the parents of three
children: Elmer, 4; Arthur 3, and Goldie, 1.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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