Extracted from Kellenberger Family History and Record Book - Revised 1978

Grandfather - Christian David Kellenberger
              Born December 12, 1827 in Walzenheusen, Switzerland
              Died March 2, 1895 near Sabetha, Kansas
              Buried Country Cemetery near Bern, Kansas
Grandmother - Marie Magdalena Tobler
              Born April 4, 1828 in Heiden Kt Appenzell, Switzerland
              Died February 13, 1901 near Richard, Missouri across
              the line from Fort Scott, Kansas and was buried there.


                    This was written in 1916.

I, H.  J.  Kellenberger,  was born at Rohrsbach Co.  St.  Gallen,  Switzerland on the 10th day of October, 1862.  When I was four years old, my father moved to Zurich.  Then in 1873 we came to America.  On the 1st day of August, we started off at Zurich; quite a lot of my schoolmates were at the station to bid me goodbye.  It took us three days to get to LeHarvre via Paris.  Then we boarded a new steamer, named Washington, to cross the Atlantic Ocean.  It took us just two weeks to come across.  We landed at New York.  It was quite a city at that time already.  They had lots of elevated railroads. Then we started on our trip again by rail; on the 3rd day we arrived at Peoria, Illinois, where we settled down as I had an uncle living there.  We only stayed one year at Peoria as it was not the city to suit my father's trade, so we moved to St. Louis, Missouri.  When we children grew older, we thought we would like the country life better, so we went to Tremont, Illinois -- close to Peoria again.  There we lived on a farm until I was 23 years old.  In the spring of 1885, the 27th day of February, I came to Neemaha County, Kansas.  On the 15th day of November, I got married and started farming on my own.  Then in 1898 we went to try the South -- Eastern Oklahoma and Fort Scott, Kansas.

In 1910, we left Fort Scott and came in our old locality again within a few miles of where we now live.

P. S.   My first days of plowing,  I done right across the road of where
       I now live, 1 mile east of Bern, Kansas, but there was no town
       then, as there was no railroad here.  The Rock Island built the
       road through here in the fall of 1886, then the townsite sprung
       up fast.