Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Unruh, Benjamin H. 1864 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

BENJAMIN H. UNRUH

HILLSIDE FARM," the country home of Benjamin H. Unruh, stands on a gently
sloping hillside thirteen miles west of Great Bend. The farm embraces three
hundred and twenty acres of beautiful lying land, and the soil is very fertile.
Mr. Unruh also owns one hundred and sixty acres in Pawnee County, and both
tracts are in a high state of cultivation. The "Hillside Farm" is improved with
a one story and a half frame containing nine rooms, and is furnished modernly.
The barn is 32x60 and has stalls for fifteen horses and ten cows. There is a
granary, model milk house, and other outbuildings, and some metal grain bins
scattered about. The house is painted gray, the barn red, and these shades
harmonize well with the green of the orchard leaves and the shade trees about
the premises.

   Benjamin H. Unruh was born in Central Russia on September 5th, 1864, and came
to America with his parents, Hein and Katherine Unruh, when ten years of age.
They arrived in Newton, Kansas, on December 24th, 1874, and little Benny spent
his tenth Christmas in the new world. They finally settled at Pawnee Rock, but
eventually entered a homestead three miles south of the farm here described.

[photo] "Hillside Farm"

The father died in November, 1884, but the mother still resides on the
homestead. Benjamin H. attended the public schools of his district and assisted
his father and mother on the farm, and entered and proved up on a claim of a
quarter section. On April 14th, 1899, he married Miss Anna Smith, of Harvey
County, Kansas. They have five living children: Alvin, 10; Ruth, 8; Augusta, 6;
Paul, 4, and Freida, 3.


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From "Biographical History Of Barton County" (1912)

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