Barton County KS Archives Biographies.....Witte, Henry 1842 - 
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Author: Great Bend Tribune

HENRY WITTE

HENRY WITTE was born December 4th, 1842, in the Province of Hanover, Germany,
and is in his sixty-ninth year. He emigrated to America in the spring of 1867,
when twenty-four years of age; and located first in LaCrosse County, Wisconsin,
where he was told of the great possibilities of the country being reclaimed from
the desert in Kansas. He went, however, to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in three
or four years returned to Wisconsin where he remained until the spring of 1880,
when he came to Barton County, Kansas. He was at first a renter of land in the
neighborhood of his present home, two and one-half miles south of Heizer, but
finally purchased a half section of land from the Santa Fe railway company,
paying five or six dollars per acre, in payments which run from three to eleven
years. He was married on February 22, 1884, to Miss Sophia D. Meyer of LaCrosse
County, Wisconsin, and of this union was born eight children. A few years since
he separated from his wife and family, deeding to them the south eighty, and
retaining the north half. He has since built a house, barn and other buildings
on his portion and has it in a fine state of cultivation.

[photo] Henry Wise at the Age of Twenty-five

  During his residence in Barton County he has passed through several disastrous
years, but has been able to improve both the north and south halves of his
original quarter in a substantial manner. Taking the circumstances into account
Mr. Witte's success has been phenomenal, and could only have been possible on
land as productive as that which he owns.


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Biographical History Of Barton County


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