Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Weber, Carl 1852 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

CARL WEBER.

    Carl Weber, one of the well-known and substantial farmers of Franklin
township and the proprietor of a well-improved farm of one hundred and sixty
acres in section 5 of that township, is a native of Germany, but has been a
resident of Kansas since 1880 and has consequently been a witness to the greater
part of the material development that has marked Marshall county since pioneer
days. He was born on a farm in the Rhine country on January 4, 1852, son of
Henry and Henrietta (Steintrasser) Weber, both natives of that same country, the
former born in 1819 and the latter in 1829, who died in their native land in
1891, the mother living but three hours after the father's death. They were the
parents of thirteen children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth
in order- of birth and eight of whom are still living. The Weber family in the
old country has been doing excellent service in behalf of the Fatherland during
the great European War, in the summer of 1916 there being no fewer than
seventeen of Mr. Weber's cousins and nephews taking part in that gigantic struggle.

    Carl Weber learned the baker's trade in his native land and was there
employed in the bakery-of Henry Hohn. When twenty-five years of age he married
and about three years later, in 1880, with his wife and their first-horn child,
came to this country, proceeding on out to Kansas and locating in Marshall
county, joining here Mrs. Weber's brother, Henry Otto, who had some time
previously located in the Beattie neighborhood. Six weeks after their arrival in
Marshall county a second child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Weber. Upon his arrival
in this county Mr. Weber had but twenty-five dollars remaining of the sum with
which he left his native land, but both he and his wife had brave hearts and a
firm determination to succeed and they presently had their home established and
were pushing along toward the goal they had set upon coming here, the
acquisition of a farm of their own. After looking about a bit Mr. Weber rented a
farm on Mission creek in Richland township and settled down there. On that farm
had been built a little log cabin and in due time in that cabin a third child
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Weber. Sixteen years ago Mr. Weber bought his present
farm of one hundred and sixty acres in section 5 of Franklin township and there
he and his family are very comfortably and very pleasantly situated. He has made
extensive improvements on the place and has brought the farm up to a high state
of productivity. Of late years Mr. Weber has been living practically retired
from the active labors of the farm, his sons assuming the general management of
the same. Mr. Weber has prospered in his farming operations and among his
investments is a nice block of stock in the bank at Marietta.

    In 1877, while living in his native land, Carl Weber was united in marriage
to Regina Otto, who also was born in the Rhine country, August 22, 1852,
daughter of Frank and Dorothy (Abies) Otto, farming people, the former of whom,
born in 1810, died in 1885, and the latter, born in 1817, died in 1878, and who
were the parents of six children, but two of whom are now living. To Mr. and
Mrs. Weber five children have been born, namely: Otto, who is a farmer in
Franklin township; Lena, who married William Wahler, a Balderson township
farmer; Emil, who owns a farm in Balderson township; Frank, who is farming in
Franklin township, and Rudolph, at home. The Webers are members of the German
Evangelical church and take a proper interest in church affairs. Mr. Weber is a
Republican, but has not been a seeker after office, although ever giving his
thoughtful attention to the civic affairs of his adopted state and country. Mrs.
Weber is a writer of German poetry, which really borders on the classic.


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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