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From: "Ethel Lock" <>
Subject: [GV] RE:Anschultz data
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 13:31:19 -0500


from A Standard History of KANSAS AND KANSANS by William E. Connelley, Sec.
Ks. St. Historical Society, Topeka, Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago,N.York
1919 Volume V

CARL ANSCHUTZ came to Western Kansas, a sturdy young Russian from the
country
north of the Caspian Sea, about forty years ago, and has put his energies to
such good use and accepted the privileges and opportunities of America so
well
that he is regarded today as one of the most prosperous men of Russell
County.

Mr. Anschutz was born Nov. 10, 1859, in the Province of Samara. That
district
of Russia is especially distinguished in modern times because it was the
scene
of the recent operations of the allied army of intervention in Russia. A
large
number of settlers in Western Kansas came from that district to this state
thirty
years or forty years ago, and have proved some of the most prosperous and
energetic citizens.

His father, Christian Anschutz, was born in the same province Nov. 14,
1835.
He is now a man past eighty years of age and is still living at Russell. He
was a Russian farmer and in 1878 brought his family to the United States,
first
locating at Ellsworth, Kansas but in the spring of 1879, moved to Russell
county.
He farmed continuously until he retired to Russell in 1908. He is a
republican
in politics and a member of the Lutheran Church. Christian Anschutz married
Maria Miller, who was born at Samara in 1838 and died on the home farm in
Russell County in 1904. Their children were: Elizabeth, wife of Christian
Stoppel, a farmer in Russell County; Carl; David, a farmer in Russell
County;
Marie, wife of Alexander Ehlich, a Russell County farmer; Henry, who runs an
oil wagon at Spearville, Kansas; Nicholas, a homesteader in New Mexico;
Dora,
wife of Ed Morgenstern, a farmer of Oakley, Kansas; Alexander, a farmer in
Russell County.

Carl Anschutz was nineteen years old when the family came to Kansas. In
the meantime he had attended local schools in his native country. For
several
years he lived at home and assisted in developing the homestead, but at the
age of twenty-five, he began farming on his own account. He started with a
modest capital, but with unlimited energy, and has prospered so that he now
owns 1,280 acres of fine land in Russell County and has developed it as a
wheat and stock ranch. These farms he now rents out and has lived retired
at Russell since 1910. In 1911 he built a modern residence in the southeast
part of town. He is interested in the elevator and grain business at
Russell
and is also a director in the Farmers St. Bank. In politics he is a
republican.

In 1884, in Russell County, Mr. Anschutz married Miss Amelia Ehlich,
daughter
of George and Catherine Ehlich, both now deceased. Her father was one of
the
early settlers of Russell County. Mr. and Mrs Anschutz are the parents of
six
children: Anna Marie, wife of John A. Meler, who is associated with
Mr.Anschutz
in the grain business at Russell; Eleanor, a graduate of Russell High
School;
Otto, Lial, Ray and Freddie, all of who are at home and attending the local
schools.

( I have several Anschutz obits but I did send them to Janet Flickinger,
Salina and think she sent them to Kathy O'Malley, Ark. I was told later
that this article was sent to Germany on request of Anschutz people and
they did connect with this family. Contact these two people for more
data if needed. Ethel Lock.)

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