Category: Biographies

Don Mogge: Eyewitness to History

By wabaunseecomuseum on August 17, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

-by Greg Hoots- Note: This story was first published in the Flint Hills Special, 2012. For years I shared my lunch break with Don Mogge. I would grab a bite to eat […]

The Photography of Charles Herman

By wabaunseecomuseum on July 9, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

Charles L. Herman was born in 1922 in Alma, Kansas, the son of Alma shoemaker, Fred Herrmann and his wife Mary Schubert Herrmann. Charles graduated from Alma High School and was a […]

Herrmann’s Shoe and Harness Shops

By wabaunseecomuseum on July 2, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

-by Greg Hoots- Ferdinand and Christine Herrmann were a young German couple, married for five years when they immigrated to America in 1874, settling in Alma, Kansas, a rural Wabaunsee County town with […]

Prohibition Blues: The Life and Times of Bill Page

By wabaunseecomuseum on June 22, 2017 • ( 3 Comments )

-by Greg Hoots- When one hears about Prohibition, the image that comes to mind is the decade of the “roaring twenties”, complete with gangsters toting machine guns and wild nights in the […]

Memorial Day Salute: Bill Copeland II

By wabaunseecomuseum on May 29, 2017 • ( 2 Comments )

William E. Copeland II, a 1964 graduate of Eskridge High School, was the first Wabaunsee County resident listed as Killed In Action in the Viet Nam War between 1961 and 1975. After graduation […]

Herman Richter

By wabaunseecomuseum on January 20, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Herman Richter was born in Germany in 1854 and immigrated to America in 1879 with his brother, Reinhold Richter and sister, Mrs. William Schroeder. Richter established a home in Alma and engaged […]

Patricia Rozema Taylor: A Friend to All

By wabaunseecomuseum on December 10, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

Patricia Ann Rozema was born in Birmingham, Alabama on July 29, 1939, the daughter of Nicholas and Philomena Ditman Rozema, but the family moved to Topeka when Pat was a young girl. […]

August Ohst, Artist

By wabaunseecomuseum on December 8, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Today’s featured photo includes two views, both taken in 1888 by Louis Palenske, of his good friend, artist, August Ohst. August Ohst was born in Ratzeburg, Germany in 1851 and came to America […]

Otto Kratzer and His Great Western Adventure

By wabaunseecomuseum on October 24, 2016 • ( 2 Comments )

– By Greg Hoots – The dawn of the 20th century found America hungry for motorization. In the 1890s the first powered motorcars were being developed in Europe by German engineers Karl […]