Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Westburg, Kasper 1862 - 
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Author: Emma E. Forter (1917)

KASPER WESTBURG.

    Kasper Westburg, owner of the northwest quarter of section 22 in Rock
township, this county, where he has a very comfortable home, is a native of the
kingdom of Sweden, born there on December 16, 1862, son and only child of Hans
and Eva (Peterson) Johnson, who spent all their lives in that country. Hans
Johnson died in 1874 and his widow married again and lived until 1914, she being
seventy-two years of age at the time of her death. By her second marriage she
was the mother of three children, Martha and Sandra, who are living in their
native land, and Carl, who came to this country and is now living at Kansas
City, Missouri.

    Upon attaining his majority Kasper Westburg decided to come to the United
States and upon his arrival here came on out to Kansas, arriving at Frankfort,
in this county, April 17, 1886. For three months after his arrival here he was
engaged in farm labor in the vicinity of Frankfort and then began working as a
stone mason, quarrying rock at Frankfort. He then presently rented a farm in
this county and worked the same for four years, at the end of which time, in
1892, he pushed on farther west and homesteaded a quarter of a section of land
in Wallace county, this state, taking possession of the same in 1893, building a
claim shanty on the place and starting in to develop the farm. While thus
engaged he divided his time between his homestead tract and a job he secured
over in Colorado as a farm hand, driving back and forth from the farm on which
he was employed to his homestead, under the mistaken impression that he could
hold his homestead in this fashion. Upon losing his homestead Mr. Westburg went
over into the gold fields of the Cripple Creek country and was there engaged
seeking fortunes until 1897, when he returned to Marshall county and rented a
farm in Rock township, on which he "batched" until his. marriage in 1899. He
then rented the old Kellberg farm and there lived for five years, or until 1904,
when he bought his present well-improved farm of one hundred and sixty acres in
section 22 of that same township, where he since has made his home and where he
and his family are very pleasantly situated.

    On April 1, 1899, Kasper Westburg was united in marriage to Louise Carlson,
who was born in Sweden, daughter of Carl J. and Petronella (Johnson) Carlson,
and .who left Sweden in 1895, her parents continuing to reside in that country.
To this union one child has been born, Raymond K., born on May 2, 1911. Mr. and
Mrs. Wrestburg are members of the Lutheran church and take a proper interest in
church work and in other good works in the neighborhood of their home. Mr.
Westburg is a Republican and gives a good citizen's attention to the political
affairs of his adopted country.


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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