Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Azendorf, Henry 1881 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Henry Azendorf, a well known and successful contractor and builder of Overland
Park, is a leading factor in that progressive and rapidly developing town. Mr.
Azendorf is a native of Johnson county. He was born at Lenexa in 1881, and is a
son of John and Margaret (Kneefe) Azendorf. The father was a soldier in the
Franco-Prussian war in 1870 and 1871 and he and Margaret Kneefe were married in
the Fatherland in 1878, and the following year immigrated to America and came to
Kansas, locating near Lenexa where he was a successful farmer until the time of
his death in 1883, and the mother now resides at Overland Park. John and
Margaret (Kneefe) Azendorf were the parents of five children, as follows: Henry,
the subject of this sketch; John, born in 1884, married Anna Sute, and resides
at Lenexa; Herman, born in 1893 is unmarried and resides with his brother on the
farm near Lenexa; William, born in 1889, is unmarried and resides at Overland
Park. He is an architect of unusual ability and among his other works he drew
the plans of the St. John Memorial building and the main office building of the
Hodges Brothers at Olathe, and Theodore, born in 1896, in the employ of a
wholesale produce house in Kansas City, Mo. Henry Azendorf was reared on the
Johnson county farm of his father and attended the public schools. At the age of
eighteen he was employed by a street railway company and in a few months became
foreman in the box department. He then took up carpenter work and in a short
time was contracting and building on his own account. He came to Overland Park
about six years ago, about the time the town was started. There was not more
than a half dozen houses there then. He has since been engaged in contracting
and building there and the rapid growth of this new town has been an ideal field
for his business. He built the E. E. Voight building, H. Breyfogle's hardware
store building, the Galloway building, Kammerzell building, two residences for
W. B. Strang at Mission Ridge; a residence for John Thorne at Olathe and
residences for Herman Klusman, John Walters and Dave Legler at Lenexa, besides
numerous other buildings. Mr. Azendorf, although a young man, can truly be said
to be one of the builders of Overland Park. He is unmarried and resides with his
mother at Overland Park.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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