Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Koepp, Charles W. 1884 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

CHARLES W. KOEPP.

    Charles W. Koepp, an energetic and substantial young farmer of Center
township, this county, proprietor of a fine farm in section 7 of that township,
was born on that farm and has lived there all his life. He was born on February
4, 1884, son of Christ and Justina (Dreger) Koepp, natives of Germany and early
settlers in Marshall county, the latter of whom is now living in the village of
Home.

    Christ Koepp took up his residence on a homestead farm in Center township
upon coming to Marshall county, not long afterward moving to the farm in section
7 of that same township, where the subject of this sketch now makes his home,
and in time became one of the large landowners and substantial farmers of that
part of the county. Upon retiring from the active labors of the farm he and his
wife moved to the village of Home, where Mr. Koepp spent his last days, his
death occurring in August, 1916, he then being seventy-nine years of age, and
where his widow is still living. They were the parents of nine children, of whom
the subject of this sketch was the last born.

    Charles W. Koepp was reared on the farm on which he was born and where he
now lives and received his schooling in the neighboring school. From boyhood he
was an able assistant in the labors of developing and improving the home place
and when twenty-two years of age took charge of the place, farming it on his own
account. Later his father gave him three hundred and twenty acres, and to this
he has added until now he is the owner of four hundred and eighty acres, a part
of the same lying in sections 17 and 18.

     Mr. Koepp is an enterprising young farmer, carrying on his farming
operations according to modern methods of agriculture, and is doing very well.
His place is well improved and he is accounted one of the substantial farmers of
that section of the county. In his political views, Mr. Koepp is "independent."
He takes a good citizen's, interest in local civic matters and in the general
affairs of the community in which he lives and is one of the live "boosters" of
Marshall county.


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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