Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Seematter, John 1863 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

JOHN SEEMATTER.

    Among the substantial farmers and stockmen of Center township, Marshall
county, is John Seematter, who is a native of Switzerland, his birth having
occurred there on February 6, 1863. He is a son of Henry and Anna (Begert)
Seematter, both natives of Switzerland.

    Henry Seematter was born December 22, 1822, and died in 1892. He was a
farmer and cheese-maker in his native land, but left there in 1883, coming to
the United States and settling at Marysville, Kansas, and here he conducted a
creamery for about ten years. His wife was born in 1831, and died on February
22, 1913. They were the parents of five children: Jacob, a farmer of Logan
township, this county; Marie, the wife of A. Brauchie, living in the western
part of Oklahoma; Anna, the wife of Fred Rubin, living in Switzerland; John, the
immediate subject of this review; and Eliza, the wife of F. Hadorn, a farmer of
Rock township, this county.

    John Seematter received his education in the schools of his native land, and
iri 1882 came to the United States to join, his brother, Jacob, who had come to
this country two years previously. The brothers farmed together for ten years on
the Frank Smith farm, east of Marysville, after which John Seematter rented land
in Logan township and engaged in farming and stock raising, and has been very
successful in his chosen vocation, as is now evidenced by his fine farm of six
hundred and forty acres. In 1908 he traded a half section of land which he had
acquired for his present farm in section 27. Mr. Seematter has made many and
varied improvements on his place, installing new and modern machinery and is an
up-to-date farmer and stockman. He has set out a fine vineyard; has good and
substantial farm buildings, and makes a specialty of breeding and raising
Aberdeen Angus cattle and Duroc-Jersey hogs. He also keeps a fine apiary on his
estate. Besides his farming interests Mr. Seematter is a shareholder in the
Winifred Farmers Union.

    In 1889 John Seematter was married to Rosa Goetz, who is a native of
Germany, but left her native country in 1889, coming to Marysville, Kansas, to
join her sister, Mrs. Katherine Ungerer. She was a daughter of Dan Augustine and
Martha Goetz, both of whom were natives of Germany, where they lived and died.
John Seematter and wife are the parents of eight children: Henry, now living in
Montana: Ernst, a farmer of Center township, this county; John, living at home;
Anna, the wife of H. Ring, a farmer of Elm Creek township, this county; Rosa, a
graduate of Frankfort high school, is now a teacher at Winifred, Kansas; and
Albert, Herman and Paul, all of whom are still at home with their parents, the
last named being a student of the high school at Frankfort.

    Politically, Mr. Seematter is an independent voter, preferring to vote for
men rather than for parties, and fraternally, is a member of the Modern Woodmen
of America.


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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