Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Unruh, Henry Benjamin 1852 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

HENRY BENJAMIN UNRUH

THE subject of this sketch, Henry B. Unruh, came to Barton county in 1876 from
Pennsylvania where he first located after leaving the old country where he was
born in Russia-Poland, in 1852. By trade he is a weaver and sawyer but upon his
arrival in this county he immediately took up the business of farming and
located in the Mennonite Colony near Dundee. His home place consists of about
220 acres of land all of which is in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Unruh was
married in 1873 to Miss Susan Dirks. Mr. Unruh survived his first wife who died
in 1901. They were the parents of ten children. Mr. Unruh married Miss Kate
Johnson of South Dakota, in 1902, and they have been blessed with four children.
Mr. Unruh's mother died in the Old Country and his father passed away in this
country in 1910. Mr. Unruh's farm is one of the best developed in that part of
the county and he has always had it well stocked with the best of horses and
cattle and all the necessary machinery for successful farming.

With all Mr. Uuruh's work he has found time to work out and perfect an invention
on which he has the patent that is some day destined to revolutionize the
science of railroad building. The invention consists of an endless or continuous
rail. It has received the endorsement of some of the leading railroad men of the
country and had Mr. Unruh been so inclined he could have sold the rights to
manufacture the rail to an eastern outfit but as they wanted it all without
giving anything in return their offer was not accepted by Mr. Unruh. The
invention is one of the most perfect of contrivances and it will do away with
the jar and noise caused when a train goes from one rail to the next on the
ordinary railroad. Mr. Unruh is in no hurry to dispose of his patent but is now
contemplating the organization of a stock company to manufacture and sell the
rails of his construction. Mr. Unruh is one of the best known men in the county
and his invention has brought him no little fame and will in time reward him in
a more substantial way.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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