Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Warnken, Jost 1859 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

JOST WARNKEN

THE History of Barton County cannot be written without giving due credit to the
German-American who helped first in its settlement and sowed the seed of good
citizenship. The customs and laws of the mother country had bred in them habits
of industry and economy and they began their lives here better fitted to battle
with the trials incident to a new settlement than were their neighbors of
American birth. The result has been an industrious, economical population,
cultivating their fields with scrupulous care, and the erection of improvements
of a permanent character. One race has learned from the other; both have been
benefitted and neither is like the original stock. The German has progressed
until the most enterprizing citizens of the county are of that class; while the
American has become more conservative in his investments and manner of doing
business. That is one reason why Barton County has been so blessed in the past,
and is so firmly founded in frugal ways that it will always continue to be a
prosperous county.

   Jost Warnken was born on a farm near Bremen, Germany, March 4th, 1859, and
emigrated to America in the fall of 1879. He first went to Pueblo, Colorado,
where he was employed on a farm for one year; but not liking the country came to
Barton County in the autumn of 1880. Here he hired himself out as a farm hand
and worked for two seasons and then bought forty acres of school land, paying
six dollars per acre. This he improved and in 1885 bought an interest in a
threshing outfit, and for three years he and his partners, Hans Jurgensen and
William Otte, toured the county threshing the wheat, oats and rye of their
neighbors. His was one of the pioneer crews and is remembered by many. He was
engaged in this business at different times for seven years, but finally
abandoned it in 1893, and has contented himself with farming since. His home
farm, one mile south of Heizer, contains three hundred and twenty acres and is
well improved and in a high state of cultivation. The residence is a two story
frame, containing eleven airy rooms. It is painted white and sits back from the
road with a nice lawn in front. There are plenty of shade trees, shrubs and
plants in the yard, a nice orchard and a growing garden. The barn is 32x64 and
will house the stock and store the grain of the farm. Besides this he has twelve
acres adjoining Heizer, and two dwellings in the town which he rents.

   Jost Warnken and Miss Anna Reinecke, of Walnut Creek, were married Jan. 16,
1886, and they are the parents of seven children: Herman, who married Miss Clara
Hemming; Malinda, who married Charles Lang; William, 19; Sylvia, 16; Delia, 13;
Lillie, 8, and Virgil, 1.


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