Bios:  Bartlebaugh, Alexander L.,  Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: Bartlebaugh, Alexander L.
SUBMITTER: Vernon Cook
EMAIL: Vernon9323@aol.com
DATE: Oct 19, 1999
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SURNAMES: Bartlebaugh, Fowler, Goff
This data was passed along to me and others by Tony Ryan in Thialand
Oct. 1999

From: A Biographical History of Central Kansas, Vol II.A

The Lewis Publishing Company, New York and Chicago 1902

p1014, 1015 ALEXANDER L. BARTLEBAUGH

The farming interests of Newton township, Harvey county, are well
represented by Alexander L. Bartlebaugh, who resides on section 2,
where he is extensively engaged in the raising of stock. He was born
in Indiana county, Pennsylvania,
June 27, 1841, and his father, Mathias Bartlebaugh, was a native of
the same county. There he spent his entire life, his death occurring
about 1871. His wife bore the maiden name of Ann Fowler and was also
born, reared and lived in
Indiana county. This worthy couple became the parents of nine children,
five daughters and four sons, all of whom reached mature years with
the exception of two. One son, Archie, served as a soldier in the
Civil war, responding to the first call for troops to aid in crushing
out the rebellion in its incipiency. He joined the Eleventh Pennsylvania
Reserves and was killed in the battle of the
Peninsula under General McClellan. There he fills an unknown grave,
his remains having never been recovered. He was in the twenty-third
year of his age when he laid down his life a willing sacrifice on
the altar of his country. Another
brother of the family, John D., died from an injury when a youth.
The other members of the family have all departed this life with the
exception of our subject and his sister, Mrs. Cameron of Clearfield
county, Pennsylvania. The
mother died in 1871 and was laid to rest by the side of her husband.
The grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bartlebaugh, died at the home of our
subject's parents about 1850 when seventy-five years of age. She had
two sons and one daughter. Mathias Bartlebaugh was a most patriotic
Republican,and although from military service by age, he entered the
Civil war and wore the country's uniform for a year, when failing
health necessitated his discharge.

Alexander L. Bartlebaugh, of this review, received but limited educational
privileges. He attended
a log school-house in which were only five little windows, and it
stood in the midst of tall pine trees, and the anthem of the wind
as heard through their boughs has never been forgotten by him. He
remained upon the home farm until
sixteen years of age when he began earning his own living by working
in a lumber camp on the headwaters of the Susquehanna river. He was
thus employed during the
winter months and he in the summer season he engaged in agricultural
labors. At the time of the Civil war he made three attempts to enlist
and finally, in July,
1864, he was accepted and assigned to Company I, Two Hundred and Sixth
Pennsylvania Infantry. He was never in any battle, however, and was
mustered out at Richmond. A slight lameness in his right leg was the
cause of his non-acceptance when twice he attempted to enter the service.

Mr. Bartlebaugh was married February 11, 1873, to Miss Eliza A. Goff,
who was born in Indiana, in 1846, and was of English parentage. In
May, 1872, Mr. Bartlebaugh had come to Kansas and secured one hundred
and sixty acres of his
present homestead farm in Newton township, Harvey county. He then
returned to Missouri, when had been his place of residence from the
time he left Pennsylvania in 1869. In 1870 he went to Blackhawk, Colorado.
where for a time
he was employed in a quartz mill and upon his return he was married
and began life anew with a wife, who to him has been a moth faithful
companion on life's journey. He had a little shanty sixteen by twenty
feet and in that they lived
for one summer. It had been built by a man from Pennsylvania to whom
Mr. Bartlebaugh paid two hundred and fifty dollars in order to get
possession of this primitive dwelling. His present residence is a
story and a half house which
he erected in 1874. In the fall of 1891 he built a large and substantial
bank barn, forty by sixty feet, utilizing nearly five carloads of
rock in the basement and walls. This is one of the best barns in central
Kansas, its cost being over eleven hundred dollars. Mr. Bartlebaugh
raises full-blooded
short-horn cattle, his herd averaging from sixty to one hundred head.
For the last twenty years he has cultivated a half section of land
in addition to his home farm, growing wheat, on seventy acres, corn
on forty acres, and oats and
hay on broad fields. He, however, feeds all the long products which
he raises and likewise buys some. His orchards comprises between four
and five acres of
land and he also has a good grove upon his place, including a variety
of trees.
He has raised black walnut and hickory trees from seed and all of
this growth stands as a monument to his enterprise and skill. There
is running water near his house and his attractive grounds render
his place a favorite resort for
picnic purposes.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. Bartlebaugh has been blessed with five children,
but the eldest, a son, died in infancy, and Mabel died at the age
of six months. The others are Marlin, who was born in 1876; Edna,
who is engaged in dressmaking in
Newton, and Lester, a youth of sixteen.

Mr. Bartlebaugh is a stalwart Republican who does all in his power
to promote the growth and insure the success of his party. He has
served as township treasurer for the past fifteen years and has also
been school treasurer, discharging the duties of both positions with
promptness and fidelity. He belongs to the Grand Army of the Republic,
and he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal church
in Newton. The government now grants him a pension in recognition
of his services in the Civil war, and it is well
deserved, for few men so physically disabled would have given their
services to the country. He has always been a most loyal and patriotic
citizen, devoted to the welfare of every community with which he has
been connected and throughout hi s life he has commanded the esteem
and confidence of his fellow men by reason of his strong purpose and
honorable career.





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