Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Pape, Gustav C. 1875 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter

GUSTAV C. PAPE.

    Gustav C. Pape, one of Franklin township's well-known and substantial
farmers and the proprietor of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in
section 4 of that township, is a native of Germany, but has been a resident of
Marshall county since the days of his infancy and has consequently been a
witness to the development of this county since pioneer days. He was born on
January 24, 1875, son of Christav Louis and Elizabeth (Eberling) Pape, also
natives of Germany, who became pioneers of this county, where the former spent
his last days and where the latter is still living, now making her home in the
village of Home.

    Christav Louis Pape was born in Rohrberg, Prussia, August 26, 1841, and grew
to manhood in his native land. In 1872 he married Elizabeth Eberling, who was
born in Stockheim on February  12,  1854, and a year or two later he came to the
United States with a view to seeking a permanent location should conditions over
here be found to his liking, and at the end of six months returned to the
Fatherland very deeply impressed with the possibilities of the situation in this
country. A year or two later, in 1876, he returned to the United States,
bringing his family with him, and located at Cincinnati, where he left his wife
and children while he came on West prospecting, Kansas being his destination. So
well did he like the appearance of things in Marshall county that he bought a
quarter of a section of land just south of Home village, sent for his family to
join him and there he established his home, continuing to live there until 1906,
when he retired from the active labors of the farm and moved to Home, where his
death occurred on May 12, 1910, he then being sixty-eight years, eight months
and fourteen days of age. Mr. Pape was a successful farmer and owned at the time
of his death three hundred and twenty acres of excellent land, besides valuable
property in the village of Home. For his original quarter section in Franklin
township he paid but eight dollars an acre, but he lived to see the prices of
land in that section and throughout this whole section of Kansas increase many
fold. Following his death a local newspaper had the following to say regarding
Mr. Pape: "He managed well and acquired a goodly portion of this world's wealth,
which he later used to help his children get a start in the world. He had large
foresight and was remarkably successful in all he undertook to do. Mr. Pape was
a great man. He had great qualities of heart and soul. In him all the attributes
of a fine Christian character perfectly blended. He was a father, a husband, a
neighbor and a citizen in all the sense these words imply. It is a happy thought
to think of men like him. His life was gentle. It was not clouded with strife.
Though a large man physically, he was always calm and self-possessed. There was
no anger, no tempest in his soul. Yet he was not cowardly. He had great moral
courage. He was a brave man and would undertake the most difficult tasks and
complete them with no seeming effort. He was a natural leader of men. He
controlled others by controlling himself. He never argued a point in dispute,
yet he controlled. He merely told where he stood, what he believed, and men
agreed with him without argument and without comment."

    To Christav Louis Pape and wife were born seven children, Mrs. Mary Braugh,
of Marysville, Gustav C., Louis, Ernest W. and Carl, who reside near Home, Mrs.
Emma Tucker, of Kansas City, Missouri, and one son, Otto, who died at the age of
seven years. Besides his widow and these children/the deceased left two sisters
and one brother, residing in Germany, and a sister, residing in Cincinnati, Ohio.

    Gustav C. Pape was but an infant when his parents came to this country in
1876 and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Franklin township, receiving his
schooling in the district school in that neighborhood. He remained at home until
after his marriage in 1904, when he bought a farm of one hundred and sixty acres
in section 4 of that same township and there has ever since made his home, he
and his family being comfortably and pleasantly situated. Mr. Pape has made
extensive improvements on his place and has one of the most attractive farms in
that part of the county, in addition to a fine orchard having fifteen acres of
natural timber on his farm. Mr. Pape is a Democrat and has ever given close
attention to local political affairs. In 1908 he was elected trustee of Franklin
township; was re-elected in 1912 and is still holding that office.

    In 1904 Gustav C. Pape was united in marriage to Matilda Neumann, who was
born in Richland township, this county, December 15, 1880, daughter of Herman
and Emma (Branch) Neumann, pioneers of Marshall county, the latter of whom died
in 1903 and the former of whom is now making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Pape.
Herman Neumann was born in West Prussia, Germany, May 25, 1852, and in 1870,
when eighteen years of age, came to thi& country and located in Illinois, where
he began working as a farm hand and where, in 1873, he married Emma Brauch, who
was born in that state on January 3, 1856. In 1878 he and his family came to
Kansas and settled in Marshall county, Mr. Neumann for a time renting a farm in
Richland township. In 1882 he bought a quarter of a section of land and has
since enlarged his holdings until now he is the owner •of three hundred and
twenty acres of land. His wife died on July 27, 1903, and in 1906 he retired
from the active labors of the farm and has since made his home with Mr. and Mrs.
Pape. Mr. Neumann for years took an active part in local affairs and has served
as a member of the school board in his district for twenty-four years. To him
and his wife six children were born, of whom Mrs. Pape was the fourth in order
of birth, the others being as follows: Mrs. Charles Blocker, of Home; Frederick,
a farmer, living in the neighborhood of Oketo; Mrs. Fred Blocker, of Home; Mrs.
August Genschoreck, of Franklin township, and Gustav, deceased. To Mr. and Mrs.
Pape three children have been born, Arthur, Verda and Laura. Mr. and Mrs. Pape
are members of the German Lutheran church and Mr. Pape is the treasurer of the
local congregation. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and
of the Modern Woodmen of America and takes a warm interest in the affairs of
these organizations.


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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