Johnson-Wyandotte County KS Archives Biographies.....Sitterman, William M. 1843 - 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  William M. Sitterman, one of the most extensive farmers and stockmen in
Johnson county, resides on his well kept ranch in Shawnee township, where he
carries on general farming and also raises horses and cattle on a large scale.
He makes a specialty of breeding Percheron horses, and perhaps is the most
successful breeder of this excellent type of horses in the county. At this
writing he has seventeen head of horses on his place and has sold fourteen
during the past year. Mr. Sitterman is also an extensive cattle feeder and this
feature of the stock business has been very profitable to him. Besides his
Shawnee township farm of 413 acres, he owns 812 acres of fine wheat land in
western Kansas and 600 acres in Oklahoma, which is mostly devoted to raising
hay. He also owns considerable property in Kansas City, Kan. Mr. Sitterman was
born in Franklin county, Missouri, December 30, 1843, a son of Casper and
Katrina Sitterman, natives of Germany. The parents immigrated to America in 1841
after their marriage. William M. Sitterman spent his boyhood days on the home
farm in Missouri. He was a boy. considerably under age, when the Civil war broke
out, but he was a strong Union man and even though a boy, his convictions were
deep seated and realizing that his first obligation was to his country, he
enlisted in October. 1861, and served in the fourth regiment, Missouri infantry,
and served in that organization until the spring of 1864, when he came to
Kansas, and after coming to this State served in the Kansas State Militia. Mr.
Sitterman first located in Wyandotte county in March, 1864. He worked on a farm
there for a time and the same year came to Johnson county and worked at the
carpenter's trade for a time and during the winter of 1865 he was engaged in
cutting timber, hauling logs, etc. He bought his first land in Kansas in 1864,
but sold it later and came to his present place in 1875. He had his ups and
downs like other pioneers of the early days in Kansas. He met with temporary
reverses like the effect from grasshoppers, drought and crop failures, but he
was made of the kind of material of which the great West is built, and was not
to be discouraged by temporary obstacles and finally success came to him and for
a number of years he has been one of the leading factors of Johnson county. Mr.
Sitterman was married November 12, 1867, to Miss Margaret Legler, a daughter of
Adam Legler, a Johnson county pioneer. To Mr. and Mrs. Sitterman have been born
three children, as follows: Louis W. and Frank Herbert, successful farmers in
Shawnee township, and Ida, married George Benz, of Overland Park. Mr. Sitterman
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is steward and a
trustee. Politically he is a Republican and has served as a member of the school
board of his district for a number of years.

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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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