Bios From the 1901 Brown County World
A. P. Curl was born in Logan county, Ohio, Feb. 28, 1830, and came to Brown county, Kansas, in March, 1879. He has four boys and one girl, all grown and married. He followed farming successfully up to 1893 when he retired and turned the farm over to his son in law, A. A. Ferris. Mr. Curl owns the old George Parker farm, 130 acres, six and one half miles south of Hiawatha, on which is an eight acre grove of Maple trees, one of the finest groves in the county.
Mr. Curl has been a useful and influential citizen of Mission township and a good neighbor in his community. He has served two terms as treasurer of the township and several terms as school director. He has always been a Republican in politics. Although raised a Quaker, and still holding his identity with that sect and attending their annual meetings, he is also a member of the Methodist church. Although a retired farmer, Mr. Curl prefers to stay on the farm and live in comfort with his daughter. Casper Gardner was born in Shelby county, Indiana in the year 1845. He enlisted in the United States navy in 1863 and served to the close of the war. After the war he settled in Richardson county, Nebraska, where he remained until he came to Brown county in 1878. He was married to Iona Myers in 1880 and they have four girls. The Gardner home is the old Fuller place west of town. William Hauber was born in Clark county, Indiana, Oct. 31, 1838, his parents having come to America from Baden, Germany three years previously. The family moved to Brown county, Kansas in 1857.
In the fall of 1860, having been brought up a Democrat, he voted for Stephen A. Douglas in the presidential election. Afterward Douglas advised all his supporters to stand by the Union. "No slaves to lose but a country to save." Then Mr. Hauber enlisted in the war and has voted the Republican ticket ever since. He enlisted in the regular United States service in 1862 and served his country faithfully until the war closed and then he came home to Kansas. He farmed around until 1868 when he bought the 100 acre tract of Indian land where he now lives, a few miles southeast of Hiawatha. Mr. Hauber was married to Miss Lizzie Maglott on April 3, 1870, and they have seven children, all boys, and five of them are Republican voters, and the other two will be when old enough. Mr. Hauber not only owns his fine residence place, well fixed and stocked, but also a fine 200 acre farm of rich Mission township land. Mr. Hauber is a member of the G.A.R. |
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