Chester Clarence HEINEKEN

                       Chet came to Atchison County, Kansas about 1883, with his parents. He attended rural school and high school. In Jun 1900 U.S. Census, he was age 18 and not living at home. I found that he was living in Benton Township, working as a farm laborer for a neighbor family by the name of George Jansen. George and his wife were from Denmark. Chet homesteaded near Parshall, North Dakota. His marriage license indicated that he was from McLean County, North Dakota. His wife, Julia, had been married before, and had one son Paul. Chet was in North Dakota by 1910. a card to Nora Rogers dated May 13, 1912 reads, "Monday. I am in Omaha, Neb. waiting for a train for Plaza. Will be there tomorrow night. Theodore started home last night. Write to Plaza North. D. C.C. Heineken." He lived there during WW I. The claim was located about 100 miles north of Bismark. The principle crops were flax and wheat. He later farmed near Nortonville, Kansas.

    An article in the newspaper 2 Apr 1943 is as follows: "Chet Heineken left on the train Wednesday afternoon for a weeks trip to Parshall, N.D. to hire someone to put in his wheat crop. Tractors are run day and night during the busy season and older men do not run tractors as they do here. Chet has 800 acres there. Parshall is about 60 miles from the Canadian border."

    Julia was living in California with some of her family when she died. They had no children. His home was located at 202 Locust, Nortonville, Kansas. When he died, Pat inherited his house and farm and half of the property in North Dakota. Ernest Heineken and Elsie Thorp were to inherit the other half. He was the executor of his parents estate and not thought highly of among most of his siblings. He died in the Atchison Hospital.