Liebenthal, Kansas
Est.
February 22, 1876
Liebenthal is the
oldest of the
villages founded by
Unsere Leute and the
only one situated in
Rush county, Kansas.
It is located on Big
Timber Creek in
Section 21, Township
16, Range 18.
The original
founders were among
the large group
which left Saratov,
Russia on October
24, 1875 and spent
the following winter
in Topeka.
Those original
founders are listed
below:
Jakob
Beil
Anna Maria
Kreutzer Beil
Peter
Beil
Elizabeth
Storm Beil
Johann
Bollig
Margaretha
Herrman Bollig
Martin
Goetz
Anna
Kreutzer Goetz
Jakob
Herrman
Margaretha Wittman
Herrman
Johann
Herrman
Elizabeth
Weber Herrman
Peter
Herrman
Anna
Maria Herrman
Adam
Kreutzer
Elizabetha Graff
Kreutzer
Johann
Kreutzer
Anna
Kuhn Kreutzer
Johann
Schaefer
Christina Wasinger
Schaefer
Joseph
Schoenberger
Elizabetha Schaefer
Schoenberger
Andreas
Weber, Sr.
Elizabetha Dobbler
Weber
Andreas
Weber, Jr.
Elizabetha Beil
Weber
In addition to the
founders listed
above, the following
also aided in the
establishment of
Liebenthal but left
later to found
Schoenchen:
Heinrich
Bieker, Johann
Bieker, Johann
Joseph Bieker,
Nikolas Bieker,
Wilhelm Bieker, Paul
Dinges, Franz
Waldschmidt, Philip
Wolf, and Johann
Zimmerman.
A second group of
settlers arrived on
August 14, 1876.
All were from
Schoenchen, Russia
and came on the same
ship with the
founders of Munjor.
This group consisted
of the following
families:
Heinrich
Depperschmidt
Anna Katharina
Peter
Depperschmidt
Anna Katharina
Johann
Jakob Schoenthaler
Anna Maria
Simon
Schoenthaler
Anna
Katharina
Joseph
Schuckman
Katharina Elizabetha
The party also
included the
families of
Karl Anton
Herklotz, Helena
Herklotz, Jakob
Munsch, Joseph
Munsch, Michael
Schmidt, Friederich
Werth, Jakob Werth,
Johann Werth, Sr.,
Johann Peter Werth,
Karl Werth, Alois
Werth, and J. Jakob
Zimmerman,
all of whom
subsequently joined
the Schoenchen
community.
In September, 1876 a
third group, all
from Neu-Obermunjou
(daughter colony of
Obermunjou), settled
in Liebenthal.
Only one,
Philip Dreher,
remained there.
The balance, being
the families of
Adam
Bieker, Franz Dreher,
Johann Dreher,
Konrad Dreher,
Friederich Graf,
Joseph Rumbach and
Joseph Zimmerman,
moved shortly
thereafter to found
Schoenchen.
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