History of Nemaha County, Kansas . the real Sabetha boosters who have donemuch to make the city enterprising and attractive during past is affiliated with the Royal Highlanders, the Knights and Ladiesof Security, Knights of the Maccabees, and the Ancient Free and Ac-cepted Masons. John U. Lehmann.—In point of years of residence in Nemahacounty, John U. Lehmann is probably the oldest living pioneer settlerof Washington township; he bears the added distinction of having livednearly sixty years on the farm which his courageous mother home-steaded in 1857. John U. Lehmann has seen the pra
History of Nemaha County, Kansas . the real Sabetha boosters who have donemuch to make the city enterprising and attractive during past is affiliated with the Royal Highlanders, the Knights and Ladiesof Security, Knights of the Maccabees, and the Ancient Free and Ac-cepted Masons. John U. Lehmann.—In point of years of residence in Nemahacounty, John U. Lehmann is probably the oldest living pioneer settlerof Washington township; he bears the added distinction of having livednearly sixty years on the farm which his courageous mother home-steaded in 1857. John U. Lehmann has seen the prairies in all of theirvast, unsettled loneliness; he broke up the prairie sod of the homesteadwhen his nearest neighbor was miles away; he lived in this county whenit required the most sturdy and brave homeseekers to withstand theloneliness and the privations necessary in the redemption of an unpeo-pled wilderness. His time of residence in Kansas dates from the eraof the wild Indian to the gradual settling of the country and the. HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 445 peopling of the fertile plains and the building of thriving towns whereinthe rugged methods of living, which sufficed for the pioneers, havebeen supplanted by the luxuries of later day civilization. Althoughborn under a foreign flag, John U. Lehmann shouldered a musket andmarched away to Southern battlefields in defense of his adopted coun-try. Few men can point to a better or more honorable record than thispatriarch and pioneer. John U. Lehmann, farmer and stockman of Washington township,was born at Berne, Switzerland, May i, 1841, and is a son of John andCathrine (Arm) Lehmann, who were the parents of twelve children, ofwhom John U. is the seventh in order of birth. John Lehmann, thefather, was born in Switzerland in 1802. He worked in a powder millfor several years, and become owner of a tourist resort at Launge, Swit-zerland, which he traded for a farm, where he spent his last years, pre-vious to his immigration to Ame
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