Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Malicky, Vencel 1850 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

VENCEL MALICKY.

    Among the well-known farmers and stockmen of Oketo township, Marshall
county, who were born in foreign countries and came to the United States when
but lads, is Vencel Malicky, the owner of three hundred and eighty-three acres
of splendid land, and who was born in Bohemia on April 15, 1850, the son of
Vencel and Wilhelmina (Benbednor) Malicky.

    Vencel Malicky and his wife were natives of Bohemia and were educated in the
schools of that country, grew to maturity and were later married. After their
marriage they continued to live in Bohemia until 1865, when they decided to seek
a home in the United States. On their arrival in this country they at once
proceeded to Iowa, where they established their home on a farm, on which they
lived and prospered until the time of their deaths some years ago. They were
held in the highest regard and esteem in the community in which they lived.
Their lives were active ones and they accomplished much in the new land, among
strangers and amid new conditions. They were the parents of eight children, of
whom the subject of this sketch is the second born.

    Vencel Malicky received his education in the schools of Bohemia and in the
state of Iowa. He grew to manhood on the home farm in Washington county, Iowa,
and assisted his father with the work on the home place. In 1875 he started
fanning for himself, his father having given him forty acres of land in
Washington county, Iowa. He farmed this tract until 1880, when he moved to
Nebraska, where he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in Gage county.
There he made many improvements and did much in the way of developing the farm,
and made that place his home until 1885. He then sold out and invested in one
hundred and sixty acres of government land in Oketo township, Marshall county.
This was excellent land, but undeveloped and unimproved, being a part of the
Indian Reservation of that section of the country. Here he built a fine frame
house and has made many valuable improvements on the place, which he has since
made his home. He keeps a fine lot of Shorthorn cattle and some splendid hogs,
and is recognized as one of the successful and substantial men of the county.

    In 1875 Mr. Malicky was united in marriage to Antonia Vesely who was born in
Bohemia on June 2, 1855. She spent a part of her childhood in that country and
at the age of nine years she came with her parents to the United States and
settled with them in the state of Iowa, where she received her education and
there grew to womanhood. To Mr. and Mrs. Malicky have been born the following
children: Vencel, Anthony, John, Emma, Milton, Joseph, Charles, Frank, Rose,
Stella, Tillie and Anna. Vencel is farming the home place; Anthony is a resident
of Barston, Nebraska; Emma' Chadima is living in Nebraska; Joseph and Stella are
now deceased; Charles, Rose and Anna are at home: Frank is a farmer in Nebraska,
and Tillie is a graduate of the Oketo high school and is now taking a course in
deaconess work at the National Training School of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. and
Mrs. Malicky with their family are active members of the Methodist Episcopal
church and have long been active in the social and the religious life of the
district.

    Politically, Mr. Malicky is identified with the Democratic party and has
served in his present position as a member of the school board for the past
thirty years. He has always taken keen interest in local affairs and has had.
much to do with the civic life of the township, of which he is one of the
progressive men. He is a stockholder of the co-operative store and the mills at
Oketo.


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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