Marshall-Nemaha-Morris County KS Archives Biographies.....Kabriel, Venzel 1878 - 
************************************************
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 sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 10, 2007, 7:44 pm

Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

VENZEL KABRIEL.

    One of the well-known of the younger men of Marshall county, who has met
with much success as a general farmer and stockman in St. Bridget township, is
Venzel Kabriel, who was born in Nemaha county, Kansas, on February 3, 1878,
being the son of Joseph and Frances (Holan) Kabriel, who were natives of Austria.

    Joseph Kabriel spent his early life in the land of his nativity and there
received his education in the schools of that country. In 1866, at the age of
seventeen years, he came to the United States. On his arrival in this country,
he located at Pittsburgh, where he was later married to Frances Holan, who was
born in 1847. After their marriage they continued to live in Pittsburgh and in
October, 1877, they emigrated to Kansas and here they established their home in
Nemaha county. After some years of successful farm life in that county, the
family moved to Marshall county, where the father lived until 1895, when he
moved to his present home at Mina.

    To Joseph and Frances Kabriel have been born the following children: Frank,
Anna, Emma, Mary, Edward, Venzel, Joseph and William. Frank is a successful
farmer living one and one-half miles west of Mina; Anna Ness lives in the
county, her husband being a well-known farmer; Emma Harkins is a resident of
Colorado; Mary Burton is a resident of Marshall county; Edward lives at Valley
Falls, and Joseph is now deceased.

    Venzel Kabriel received his education in the district schools of Nemaha
county and at Mina, Marshall county, and grew to manhood on the home farm,
wThere as a lad he assisted his father with the farm work. At the age of
twenty-one years he began to work for himself and for two years worked for his
father by the month. He then rented land in Marshall county and there engaged in
general farming for two years, when he then rented a farm in Morris county,
Kansas, where he remained for two years. He then purchased eighty acres of land
in St. Bridget township, which he later sold to his brother. At that time he
bought his present farm of one hundred and sixty acres. The railroad goes
through the place and eighty acres of the farm is in section 28 and eighty acres
in section 33, of St. Bridget township. This place he has developed and improved
with most substantial buildings, and in 1916 completed his modern barn,
thirty-eight by thirty-eight feet. Here he is engaged in general farming and
stock raising and is meeting with much success.

    On January 7, 1903, Venzel Kabriel was united in marriage to Rosa Brolyer,
who was born on June 27, 1878, and is the daughter of Henry and Jennie Brolyer.
To this union the following children have been born: Vance, whose birth occurred
on March 21, 1904; Joseph, November 6, 1905; Gladys, October 19, 1908, and
Rosalee, August 2, 1910.


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)


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ks/marshall/bios/kabriel424gbs.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ksfiles/

File size: 3.6 Kb