Barton County, Missouri Biographies-Amos KENTNER

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 913, 914

Amos Kentner, a farmer and stockman of Golden City Township, has been
a resident of Southwestern Missouri for fifteen years, and has resided
on his present farm since 1881.  He was born in Wyoming County, Penn.,
and is a son of William and Susan (Heller) Kentner, who were also born
in Pennsylvania.  In 1848 they emigrated to Lee County, Ill., where the
father bought a farm of 240 acres, on which he lived until his death, in
1857, at the age of fifty-five years.  His widow is still living, and is 
residing on the old homestead, at the age of eighty-four years.  Amos
Kentner was reared on this farm, educated in the public schools, and 
made his home with his parents until twenty-one years of age, when he 
took the overland trip to California, in which State he remained, engaged
in mining, for twelve years.  The following two years he then spent at
his old home in Illinois, after which he went to Nebraska, and was
engaged in the grain business for one year.  In 1876 he moved to Jasper
County, Mo., and, after renting a farm for about five years, came to
Barton County, and purchased his present property, which first consisted
of eighty acres, but now amounts to 240 acres of well-improved land.
He was married in 1875 to Miss Elizabeth Waters, a native of Indiana,
by whom he has one child, Jacob.  He and wife are members of the 
Presbyterian Church, in which he is an elder; and in his political views
he is a Republican, and is one of the most enterprising farmers of the 
township.  He served one term as justice of the peace.

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