History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . ared on a farm in the sugar-beet country ofHanover and there married and became a small farmer. In 1859 he wentto Australia, where he worked in the gold mines for se\en years, at theend of which time he returned home and eight months later, in 18^)/, camewitli hi> family to tlic United States, landing at Baltimore after a voyageof six weeks and four days on a sailing vessel. The family at once proceededto Christian county, Illinois, where Andrew Stecher bought a farm andestablished his home, remaining there until 1882
History of Reno County, Kansas; its people, industries and institutions . ared on a farm in the sugar-beet country ofHanover and there married and became a small farmer. In 1859 he wentto Australia, where he worked in the gold mines for se\en years, at theend of which time he returned home and eight months later, in 18^)/, camewitli hi> family to tlic United States, landing at Baltimore after a voyageof six weeks and four days on a sailing vessel. The family at once proceededto Christian county, Illinois, where Andrew Stecher bought a farm andestablished his home, remaining there until 1882, in which year he and theother members of the family joined the eldest son, the sul)ject of this sketch,wIk) had located in Reno county five years l^efore. Andrew Stecher boughta farm in Haven township .uid there he s])ent the rest of liis life, his deathoccurring on May 27, 1896, he then being sevent\-three years of age. Hiswife had died three years before, her death having occurred on ]\Iay 21,1893, at the age of sixty-eight. They were devout members of the Lutheran. ^ iJtl^ykM^ ^^J,*^-*^-•*••-«« RENO COUNTY, KANSAS. 481 church and their children were reared in that faith. Iliere were three ofthese children, of whom the subject of this sketch is the eldest, he havinga sister, Henrietta, wife of R. Coleman, a well-known resident of Haven,this county, and a brother, Henry, a retired farmer of South Dakota. Christian Stecher was thirteen years old when he came with his parentsto this country. He had received an excellent elementary education in hisnative land and upon coming here entered the school in the neighborhoodof his new home in Illinois and very readily acquired an excellent commandof English, quickly becoming as good an American as any. In the fall of1876 he and his brother-in-law came to Kansas, stopping at Halstead, inHarvey county, from which point they looked the country over, finallydeciding to locate in Reno county. In January, 1877, they bought schoollan
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