Butler County KS Archives Biographies.....Henri, Joseph ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/ksfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ken Wright wright @prestontel.com December 7, 2010, 6:24 pm 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/butler/bios/henri165bs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ksfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb