Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Hirt, Andrew 1856 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

ANDREW HIRT.

    Andrew Hirt, one of the well-known and successful farmers of Cottage Hill
township, Marshall county, was born in the state of Pennsylvania on April 3,
1856, being the son of Joseph and Isabelle (Turnbaugh) Hirt, natives of Germany
and Pennsylvania, respectively.

     Joseph Hirt was born in 1826 and was educated in the public schools of
Germany and grew to manhood. In 1840, in order to escape military service, he
came to the United States and located in Pennsylvania, and later did good
service in the Civil War. Mrs. Hirt was born in 1834 and spent her life in the
state of her birth, where she died in 1916; her husband died in 1904. They were
the parents of ten children, nine of whom are now living.

    Andrew Hirt was the only one of the family to come to Kansas; he located
here on a farm in February, 1886. On July 30, 1882, he was united in marriage to
Annie Laura Rice, who was born on December 19, 1862, in Pennsylvania, and is the
daughter of George I. and Kate Rice, both of whom are natives of Pennsylvania
and were members of old established families, who had located in the state five
generations before their birth. The first member of the Rice family to locate in
the state was Zachariah, who came from Germany early in the eighteenth century.
He was the father of twenty-one children and had one hundred and fifty-six
grandchildren. Members of the family took an active part in the Revolutionary
War, as well as the War of 1812 and the Civil War. George I. and Kate Rice were
the parents of nine children, three of whom came to Kansas, as follow: Anna
Hirt, of Cottage Hill township, Marshall county; Alberta Arganbright and Milo M.
Rice, both of whom are also living in Cottage Hill township.

    To Andrew and Annie Hirt have been born the following children: Minnie
Alice, who was born on January 29, 1884, and is the wife of LeRoy Rodocker and
is the mother of two children, Leila and Dorotha; George Joseph was born on
December 15, 1889, and died on February 14, 1894, and Charles Everett, who was
born on January 26, 1895, and is now at home. Mr. and Mrs. Hirt are active
members of the Lutheran church and are prominent members of the community.

    When Mr. and Mrs. Hirt first came to Kansas they located in Cottage Hill
township, Marshall county, and there rented land of Jackson Thomas, for seven
years. They then purchased eighty acres of land two miles east of Cottage Hill.
This farm they developed and improved and there they made their home for eight
years, when Mr. Hirt traded the farm on his present home place of one hundred
and sixty acres. This place he has developed and improved with splendid
buildings and today has one of the best farms in the township.


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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