Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Toedter, John P. 1851 - living in 1917
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JOHN P. TOEDTER.

    John P. Toedter, one of Marshall county's substantial retired farmers, the
owner of a fine farm of eight hundred and thirteen acres in Balderson and
Franklin townships, who now lives in the village of Home, where he and his wife
are very well situated to enjoy the rewards of the toil they endured in pioneer
days, is a native of Germany, but has been a resident of this country since he
was eighteen years of age. He was born in the province of Hanover, November 2,
1851, son of Christ and Elizabeth (Dearsan) Toedter, natives of that same
province, who were the parents of two children, the subject of this sketch
having a sister, Mrs. Mary Wedeman, who continues to make her home in her native
land.

    Upon completing his schooling in his native land, John P. Toedter came to
this country, leaving port on May 1, 1869, and on his arrival here located at
Peru, Illinois, in the neighborhood of which place he became engaged at farm
labor and was thus engaged there for nine years. He left home with but twenty
dollars in money and thus had nothing to give him a start over here save his
strong hands and his willing heart, but his energy and thrift presently set him
on the way to a competence, and at the time of his marriage in 1877 he had quite
a comfortable little bank roll. In 1878, the year following his marriage, he and
his wife came to Kansas and he bought a tract of eighty acres of partly-improved
land in section 18 of Franklin township, this county, paying for the same the
sum of one thousand dollars. On that place he built a small house and barn and
established his home. From the beginning of his operations his affairs prospered
and in 1881 he bought a quarter of a section of land adjoining, the tract on
which the school house in district No. 57 later was erected. To these holdings
Mr. Toedter later added until he became the owner of eight hundred and thirteen
acres of well-improved land in Balderson and Franklin townships. In addition to
his general farming, Mr. Toedter always gave considerable attention to the
raising of live stock and did very well, it not having been long after his
location in Franklin township that he began to be recognized as one of the most
progressive and substantial farmers and stockmen in that part of the county.
There he lived until 1909, in which year he retired from the active labors of
the farm and moved to the village of Home, where he has a comfortable brick
house and where he and his wife are very pleasantly situated.

    In 1877, while living at Peru, Illinois, John P. Toedter was united in
marriage to Mary Branch, who was born at that place on August 18, 1860, daughter
of Henry and Henrietta (Diederick) Brauch, natives of the province of Hanover,
Germany, who came to this county from Illinois in 1878, at the same time Mr.
Toedter and his wife came and settled on a farm here. Henry Brauch was killed in
a runaway accident in 1880, he then being fifty-three years of age, and was the
second person buried in the cemetery at Marysville. His widow died in August,
1893, in the sixty-fourth year of her age. They were the parents of nine
children, of whom Mrs. Toedter was the sixth in order of birth.

    To John P. and Mary (Brauch) Toedter seven children have been born, namely:
Henry, now managing the old home place, who married Lizzie Ruette and has four
children, one son and three daughters; Louise, who married Charles Nollar,
living three and one-half miles north of Home, and has two children, a son and a
daughter; Rosa, who married Emil Weber, of Balderson township and has two sons;
John W., living on one of his father's farms in Franklin township, who married
Nellie Warren and has two children, a son and a daughter; Henriette, who married
Luie Reinhardt, of Franklin township, and has one son: August, also farming in
Franklin township, who married Emma Schwartz and has one son, and Louis, who is
working for his father. The family are members of the German Lutheran church and
have ever taken an active interest in the affairs of the same, Mr. Toedter
having been treasurer of the local congregation for a number of years. He is a
Republican and has ever given a good citizen's attention to local political
affairs, but has not been included in the office-seeking class.


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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