Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Busch, Deitrich 1853 - ************************************************ 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: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 October 8, 2008, 4:48 pm Author: Ed Blair Deitrich Busch is one of Johnson county's most successful farmers, and resides at Lenexa. He was born in Brunswick, Germany, January 1, 1853, a son of John and Zena (Bohlman) Busch. The parents spent their lives in their native land and made farming their life occupation. Four brothers of the Busch family came to America. Henry came in 1863 and located in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hermann came with Henry and located in Preble county, Ohio, and another brother, Caspar, who is now a prosperous farmer in Olathe township, immigrated to America and joined the other two brothers at Cincinnati, and in 1869 Deitrich came to Preble county, Ohio, where the other three brothers had located in the meantime. Deitrich Busch remained in Preble county until 1872, when he came to Kansas, locating in Johnson county. When he arrived here he had very little money, perhaps about $200. The father had given each of the boys $50 when they left home and Deitrich had saved a little out of his earnings while in Ohio. He worked for his brother, Herman, for two years after coming to Kansas, and then worked for six months for W. P. Haskins, and then worked for his brother, Caspar Busch, for seven years. He first bought forty acres of land for $850 and has continued to buy additional laud and add to his original holdings until he now owns two farms in Shawnee township, one of 160 and the other of 120 acres. This land cost him in different lots, at various times, from $40 to $70 per acre, and at the lowest estimate, it would now be worth $125 per acre. Both his farms are well improved, with good buildings, and under an excellent state of cultivation; and in appearance these places have few equals, and no superiors, in Johnson county. Mr. Busch now makes his home at Lenexa, where he has a nice residence, and has lived there since 1914. He was married, in 1882, to Miss Katheryn Brandt, a native of Germany, born in 1860, and came to America in 1880, and to this union have been born three children, as follows: Zena, who married Jesse Moody, of Shawnee township, and they have one child, Katheryn; John, farmer near Lenexa, married Florence Klingler and they have two children, Lois Grace and Robert John; and Herman, farmer near Lenexa, married Edria Soller; a son, Richard Henry, was born to them September 4, 1915. Mr. Busch is one of Johnson county's foremost citizens who by his industry and enterprise has made himself what he is today. Additional Comments: Extracted from: 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/johnson/bios/busch197nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ksfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb