Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Dwerlkotte, Joseph 1874 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

JOSEPH DWERLKOTTE.

    Joseph Dwerlkotte, cashier of the Citizens' State Bank of Marysville,
Kansas, and a landowner in Marshall county, is a native of Germany, but has been
a resident of this county since the days of his boyhood. He was born and reared
on his father's estate near the village of Dinklage, Grand-Duchy of Oldenburg,
April 10th, 1874, the seventh son of Clemens and Bernadina Dwerlkotte.

    Reared on the farm, Joseph Dwerlkotte received his elementary training in
the common schools and afterwards took a three years course in a normal and
agricultural college. At eighteen, years of age he made up his mind to come to
this country, and took passage at Bremen on February 12th, 1893, and arrived in
the port of New York on February 26th. From there he came west to Custer county,
Nebraska, and worked on a farm near the town of Oconto for eighteen months. In
July, 1894, he came to Marshall county, where he engaged in farming in Elm Creek
township, near Marysville, for about twelve years. In the year 1900 he was
united in marriage to Miss Johanna Minkenberg, also a native of Germany, born in
the village of Steinfeld-Oldenburg, in 1879. Mr. Dwerlkotte was a very
successful farmer and upon the organization of the Citizens' State Bank of
Marysville in 1907, he entered that institution as assistant cashier and moved
to Marysville, where he has since resided. Upon the resignation of Mr. Laughlin
as cashier in 1913, Mr. Dwerlkotte was chosen as his successor, which positron
he still occupies.

    To Mr. and Mrs. Dwerlkotte four children have been born, Edith, Leo,
Ludowiena and Joseph, all of whom are living excepting the last named. Mr.
Dwerlkotte is a Republican in political affairs. Religiously, he is affiliated
with the Catholic church, and fraternally with the Knights of Columbus and the
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association. At the present time be holds office as
grand knight of Marysville Council No. 1777.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)


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