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JOHN LIENHART, a well-to-do farmer of Kearney county, is the second son born to John Lienhart and Anna C. (Killer) Lienhart, both natives of Germany. John Lienhart was a young man when he came to America. He first located in Canada, where he was married, December 25, 1845, and resided in Waterloo county, Province of Ontario, where his wife died, October 16, 1861. In 1865 he moved to La Porte county, Ind., where he followed farming for a number of years, then went to Nebraska and resided with his son John, whose name heads this sketch, until his death, September 7, 1890. To the union of John and Anna C. Lienhart were born three sons and three daughters. One of these daughters is a resident of Canada, one of Nebraska, the other was a resident of Chicago, Ill., until her death, in 1889. The three sons, Henry, John and Conrad, are all residents of Nebraska. John Lienhart, the subject of this sketch, was born in Waterloo county, Canada, January 29, 1854; he went from there with his father to La Porte county, Ind., when a child. At the age of twenty-one he immigrated to Kearney county, Nebr., arriving here in the fall of 1875, and located a homestead in the southwest quarter of section 10, township 6, range 14, on which he still resides. He at once began improving, building at first a sod house, which served him as a dwelling for nine years.

He has never met with a failure in raising a crop. He now has good improvements, including a good bearing orchard, and has about one hundred and twenty-five acres under cultivation in mixed crops; his farm is also well stocked with cattle, horses and hogs. When he came here he had but little means, and soon got rid of what little he had; for the spring following his arrival found him with no money at all. His present prosperous condition is due to his earnest determination to have something. That something he has succeeded in getting.

He was married, January 1, 1880, to Miss Azora Kronkright. Her father, George Kronkright, was a native of Vermont, from which state his parents moved to Indiana, when he was a child. From Indiana he went to Iowa, where he was married to Eliza J. Rodgers. To their union were born five children. Azora, being the second, was born June 11, 1862. Her father is a farmer, now living in Nebraska.

To the union of our subject with Miss Kronkright have been born five boys, viz. — George W., born September 20, 1880, died May 6, 1885; Ralph V., born January 27, 1883; Raymond H., born April 18, 1886; John L., born April 6, 1887; Frank E., born December 24, 1889.