Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Ringen, Ed. W. 1865 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

ED. W. RINGEN.

    Ed. W. Ringen, one of the well-known and successful farmers and stockmen of
Richland township, Marshall county, was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, on
March 5, 1865, the son of John and Louisa (Rholfing) Ringen.

    John and Louisa Ringen were natives of Pennsylvania and Germany,
respectively. The father came of German ancestors and was educated in the
schools of Pennsylvania and there grew to manhood. He later moved to Dearborn
county, Indiana, where he engaged in general farming and stock raising for many
years. He and his wife were among the highly respected people of the community.
Their later years were spent in the Hoosier state and there they died some years
ago.

    Ed. W. Ringen received his education in the common schools of his home
district and grew to manhood in Dearborn county, Indiana, and there he lived
until he was twenty-two years of age. At that time he decided to seek a new
location, and in 1887 he came to Kansas, locating in Richland township, Marshall
county, and here he worked by the month for some years. After having spent some
eight years of his life working for fifteen dollars per month, he rented land
until 1907, when he purchased his present farm. Here he has made all the
improvements and today has one of the best developed and nicely improved places
in the township.

    On March 19, 1891, Ed. W. Ringen was united in marriage to Anna Heiserman,
who was born at Lincoln, Illinois, on November 30, 1868, the daughter of Fred
and Mary (Hund) Heiserman. The father of Mrs. Ringen was a native of Germany,
having been born in that country on January 25, 1834. It was there that he
received his education in the public schools and there he continued to live
until he was twenty-one years of age, when he left the land of his nativity and
came to the United States. In 1855 he came to this country and at once
established himself as a farm hand in the state of Illinois. There he married
Mary Hund, who was born in 1847. Some years after their marriage they came to
Kansas, with horses and wagon and established themselves on a homestead of
eighty acres of land in Richland township, Kansas. This farm was later developed
and improved and here Mr. Heiserman engaged in general farming and stock raising
for many years, with much success. He soon became the owner of two hundred and
forty acres of land and was one of the prominent men of the township. On that
farm his wife died in 1908. They were the parents of the following children:
Henry, of Liberty, Kansas; William, now a farmer of Oklahoma; Jacob, of Norton
county, Kansas; George, a successful farmer of Marshall county; John, of
Oklahoma; Fred, of Smith county, Charles, a farmer of Richland township; Albert,
on the home farm; Walter, a farmer of Marshall county; Anna; Rosa, the wife of
William Ringen; Lillie, the wife of John Wagner, of Richland township, and
Edward, of Oketo township. Mr. and Mrs. Heiserman were ever prominent in the
social life of the community, and were active in the moral and educational
development of the township, and were among the highly respected people of the
district.

    To Ed. W. and Anna Ringen have been born the following children: Herbert
Duncan, now deceased; Walter, born on October 24, 1892, and Cora born on January
4, 1895. Walter is a graduate of the State Agricultural School and thoroughly
versed in the art of scientific farming. Mr. and Mrs. Ringen are active members
of the German Lutheran church and are prominent in the social and the religious
life of the county. Politically, Mr. Ringen is identified with the Republican
party and has ever taken a keen interest in all local affairs, and is regarded
as one of the progressive and substantial men of the township. He is a member of
the Modern Woodmen of America and of the American Hereford Cattle Breeders
Association.

    During their early lives, both Mr. and Mrs. Ringen experienced many of the
hardships common to the children of the pioneer families. Mrs. Ringen, being the
eldest girl in the family, had much of the household duties to perform, and her
task was no easy proposition. Their educational advantages were limited, and
even when in school they scarcely ever attended more than two or three days a
week. As boy and girl, in their respective homes, they learned well how to do
the work both in the house and on the farm. After their marriage they applied
themselves to the task of getting a home and making it one of the best in the
district. They have always taken much interest in the educational development,
and their children are having the advantages of the best training the schools
afford. Many labor-saving devices are installed in their home, and the washing,
churning and the pumping of the water is all done by machinery. The house is a
splendid one and has every modern convenience and is nicely located. The barns
are complete and modern in every particular, and are arranged in the most
systematic way possible.

    Mr. Ringen's cattle are among the best in this section of the state. "Rocky
Boy", the head of the herd, he obtained from Vermillion, and is a beautiful
animal. Mr. Ringen exhibited him at the Royal Stock Show at Kansas City when he
was five years old, in 1913. He is the sire of "Rocky Bob No. 560081", an animal
in which the owner has the greatest confidence for future greatness. "Plumber"
is another noted sire on the place, and was obtained in Nebraska. In addition to
the sires, Mr. Ringen has some sixty cows on the farm.


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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