Butler County KS Archives Biographies.....Henri, Joseph 
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Source: Maquoketa Record
Author: J. W. Ellis

Maquoketa Record, Dec. 20, 1899

J. W. Ellis received a marked copy of the Walnut Valley Times, published at 
Eldorado, Butler County, Kansas, dated December 8, 1899, announcing the death 
on Nov. 18, 1899, of Joseph Henri, at the age of 90 years. Mr. Ellis says a 
few of the old pioneers will remember Jos. Henri. He came to where Maquoketa 
is now located in 1835. He took up a claim on the Maquoketa River, near 
Higginsport, and traded it for one in the forks of the Maquoketa on which is 
now the John Davis place, just north of Hurstville, and started to build a 
mill. For some reason his title was not good and he lost the claim. He then 
claimed a piece of land south of Maquoketa, now owned by M. E. Finton, and 
built a mill and dam on Mill Creek in 1837. The mill was finished in the fall 
and on the 1st of January it began to rain and a great flood came and swept 
the mill away, leaving Mr. Henrie without a dollar in the world. He went to 
Bellevue and worked at the carpenter trade; he was a spectator at the Bellevue 
War, but not a participant. He passed through Maquoketa about three years ago 
and called on several old pioneers.


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