B. H. Olsen was educated in the public schools and through home study also be became an exceptionally well-informed man. He was a successful farmer and also raised fine cattle. In 1900 he owned land located three and three-quarters miles northwest ot Bennington and this is where Vern Seymour lives today. Mrs. Olsen was married in July, 1900, to Mrs. Emma Lash Davis. She was the daughter of W. H. Lash of Bennington.

The Pieschl Family
By
Richard Pieschl

Joseph Pieschl and Rosalia Swartz were married in 1860 in Alt Moletin, Austria. Fourteen children were born to this union, eleven living to adulthood. The last two children were born in America.
Joseph farmed his 28 acres in the summertime and in the wintertime he weaved cloth.
In the early 1890's the Pieschl family immigrated to America, settling at Hoisington, KS where a Swartz family received them.
After a few years of difficulty growing crops at Hoisington they headed for Arkansas for they had heard it was the land of "milk and honey." Upon their arrival there they discovered that malaria had infested the area, so they returned to Kansas stopping overnight to visit some friends at Bavaria, a small town west of Salina. They purchased a farm, lived in a dug-out for several years before they built a house in 1905.
Three of the sons migrated to Ottawa County in the early part of the 1900's. Joe, who lived east of Bennington on K-18 Highway reared two children - Christella, was born in 1903 and Raymond who was born in 1908. Joe's wife died not long after Raymond was born. Joe died in 1970, Raymond in 1972, and Christello in 1985.
Vincent and Ferdinand farmed two miles east of Bennington on K-18. Ferd married in the early twenties. He and his wife, Mary, reared one son Bob who was born in 1925 and died in 1970. Ferdinand died in 1985 and Mary in 1988.
Vincent married Ollie Wolfersperger from Lindsey in 1925. They set up housekeeping and farmed there where Vincent Jr., Francis William and Joseph DeVere were born in 1928, 1931 and 1933 respectively.
In 1937 the family moved to the Geo. Eckles farm 1 ½ miles south of Lindsey on the Solomon River. Richard, their youngest was born there in 1938.
In 1961, Vincent and Ollie moved to Minneapolis to retire where they lived until Vincent died in 1985 and Ollie in 1986.

QUINN
By Sue Quinn

John Schroeder Quinn was born in 1833; he was of Scotch and Irish descent. He married Lovina Robinson who was born in 1857 and died in 1889. She was Dutch, coming from Holland, and was among the first Dutch to settle Pennsylvania. To this union were born nine children as follows:
Herbert J., Ben S., Robert A. Fred, Bill, Clara, Hattie Anna and Glenny. Only those who settled in Ottawa County, Kansas, will be listed herein.

HERBERT J. (born 1860). Married Ruena Richter who was born in 1866 in a dugout near Solomon.
She was a daughter of Ferdinand Richter, who was born in Germany in 1866 and Crystal Wagner.

To Herbert and Ruena were born five children. Listed below are these five children and their
descendants:
1. Walter - one son, Corwin Quinn
2. Lovina (Mrs. Ernest Watts) - three children:
Louise (Mrs. Elmer Tillberg) - Janet, Roger Tiilberg
Louis - deceased
Herbert J. - one daughter, Mrs. Arlene Rolfs - Mark, Kirk Rolfs
3. Clarence B. (married Theresa Chapman) - two children Stanley J. - Jay Scott, Kay Ann Quinn , Robert J. - Bobby Quinn
4. J Herbert (married Helen Rezebeth)  two daughters Ruena Jo
Adrienne
5  Arthur J. (married Edith Reigle) two children Jean Katherine - Shirley and Steve Neaderhiser, Art Jay
ROBERT A. died in 1928. He was married to Theresa Reinhardt. To this union  were born four children as follows:
1. Rina (Mrs. Harry Baugh) - two sons Lawrence - Dwite Dwayne, Patricia, Chiquita Robert - no descendants.
2. Mayme (Mrs. Verde Lundstrum) - no descendants
3. Clara (Mrs. Floyd Owens) - two children Glenn - deceased
Jean - Barbara, Kerry Dale, Holly and Alan Mccomb
4. Chester (Married Anna Dossey) - one daughter Annabelle - Marsha, Nancy, Sondra, Eddie, Timmy Boss

BILL came to Ottawa County around 1890. He married Edna Wickham and they had one son, Eiliis Quinn.

Herbert and Ben Quinn came to Ottawa County in a covered wagon from Olwein, Iowa. Herbert was a painter and paper hanger; Ben was a butcher (he did not settle here, but went on out west); Robert doctored horses and cows;

The main families at this time (1880-1885) were Wagners, Rehbergs, Reinhardt and Richters. These families were homesteaders and endured the floods of 1905,1908 and others.




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