Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Busch, Casper 1844 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Casper Busch, one of the large land owners and most prosperous farmers of
Johnson county, is a native of Germany. He was born, March 3, 1844, at
Emtinghausen Amtatinhausen, Province of Hanover, Germany. He was reared in his
native country and educated in the schools of Germany. When he was twenty-one
years of age he left the Fatherland and immigrated to America, locating in
Preble county, Ohio. Here he worked as a farm laborer about one year, when he
went to Cincinnati, where he was employed in. a lead factory for four years. He
then decided that there were better opportunities for an ambitious young man in
the new West, and, following this determination, he came to Kansas, in the
spring of 1870, locating in Johnson county. He bought a farm of forty acres,
located about four miles north of Olathe, from a Mr. McLaughlin, who went to
western Kansas. Mr. Busch has added to his original holding from time to time
and now owns one of the finest farms in the county. It consists of 590 acres of
well-improved land, with good buildings, and is one of the finest appearing
places to be seen along any Kansas highway. Mr. Busch is a close student of the
details of agriculture and a scientific farmer. His notable success is partially
due to that fact, and to the fact that he has been an untiring worker and does
not put off until tomorrow what he can do today. Mr. Busch was united in
marriage, in 1870, to Miss Adaline Klusman and they have one child, Anna
Catharine, born in Olathe township August 23, 1871, and is now the wife of H. F.
Sitterman. Mr. Busch is a public-spirited citizen and is ever ready to further
the interests of his county and State, and is an enthusiastic Kansan, or, as he
expresses it, "The Sunflower State is good enough for me."

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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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