John Hiram Hartenbower (1903)

HARTENBOWER

Posted By: Kent Transier (email)
Date: 8/29/2013 at 15:10:02

Newspaper Unknown
Douglass, Kansas
September, 1903

After a long and disabling illness, Hon. J. H. Hartenbower passed away at his home three miles southwest of Douglass, on Monday night the 28th of September 1903, aged 75 years and six months.

The deceased was one of the prominent and most popular men in Butler county before old age and bodily affliction robbed him of his usual vigor. He was born in Kentucky, April 7 1828, but with his parents moved to Putnam county, Illinois, in the very early settlement of that state--before the Blackhawk war. He was the eldest child of a large family and the main stay in building a pioneer home, in what is now probably the richest farming region in America.

From Illinois he went over land to Calfornia in 1850, returning a few years later via the isthmus. Then he settled in Iowa, in what was then a new country. Later he went to southern Minnesota. For several years he resided in Colorado and was engaged in mining operations. Nearly 20 years ago he came to Kansas, and his home has been near Douglass since that time.

Wherever J. H. Hartenbower went, the genial, sterling qualities of his character were recognized. He served in the legislatures of Iowa, Minnesota and Kansas, though not a member ot the party that has generally controlled those states. In many other ways was his patriotism and popularity recognized by those with whom he had lived and associated.

About six months ago he suffered a stroke of apoplexy which left him in a paralyzed conditition. Since then his condition had been helpless, and recovery had not been expected. Truly, at a ripe old age, one has been taken from our midst, who was respected and honored by all, and one, who during his vigorous life, had no unimportant part in building up the great empire that during his day has been erected in the Mississippi.valley.

The funeral, yesterday, at the Congregational Church was largely attended.
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Transcriber's note: Given names from censuses. The deceased lived in Jefferson Township, Madison County in the late 1860s through the early 1870s and was married to his second wife there in April, 1869.

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