OTTO BUCHHEIM, Postmaster at Winkler's Mills, Riley County, also conducts a general store and officiates as a Notary Public. As may be supposed he is thus one of the leading citizens of the place and one of its most prosperous business men. He carries a well-selected stock of goods and enjoys a lucrative and steadily increasing trade.

The subject of this sketch was born in the Province of Saxony, Germany, April 2, 1861, and is the son of John F. and Wilhelmina (Pfuetze) Buchheim, the former of whom, now a retired fanner and seventy-two years old, remains a resident of his native Germany and is in good circumstances. The paternal grandmother of our subject lived to be ninety-one years old, and at her death had ninety-one children and grandchildren.

Mrs. Wilhelmina Buchheim is still living and with her husband is a member of the Lutheran Church. They were the parents of six children, viz: Paulina, Herman, Julius, Bertha, Richard and Otto. Paulina died unmarried when about twenty-nine or thirty years of age.

The subject of this notice was the sixth child of his parents and received the training and education common to the youth of the Fatherland. He was taught to make himself useful at an early age and acquired those habits of industry and frugality which have been the best capital with which he could have been furnished. When about nineteen years old he entered the army as a one-year volunteer, passing an examination for an officer in the Reserves. In 1880 he became a member of a company of artillery, which was stationed ar Metz, on drill duty. After the expiration of his term of service Mr. Buchheim, in the spring of 1883, set sail for America, and after landing in the city of New York, made his way directly to Kansas. Coming to Riley County, he sojourned two weeks' at Winkler's Mills, then proceeded to Trinidad, Col., and sojourned in that region until the fall of that same year. We next find him in New Mexico mining and prospecting, and he afterward went to Arizona. From there he set out for Los Angeles, Cal., via the Southern Pacific Railroad, and at San Pedro took the steamer "Santa Rosa" to San Francisco. There he embarked on the steamer "Queen of the Pacific" and a few days later found him in Tacoma. Wash.

During his wanderings until reaching Los Angeles, Mr. Buchheim had been accompanied by a friend, but at that point they became separated and did not meet again until 1885. Mr. Buchheim remained in Tacoma a little over one month and failing to find the employment he desired, returned to San Francisco, and thereafter was engaged as a clerk in the Prescott House for thirteen months. At the expiration of this time, desirous of increasing his business education, he applied the money thus earned toward this end. becoming a student of the Barnard Business College, from which he received a diploma six months later. Then returning to the Prescott House, he assumed his old position, and later was employed as a book-keeper at Black's Station, Yoho, Cal., and while thus engaged his long lost companion came to him. The two friends now set out north for Redding, Cal., and engaged in raining until February, 1886. They then purchased the right to 320 acres of the C. P. Land Grant at the foot of Bear Mountain. The following summer Mr. Buchheim took subcontracts on the C. & O. R. R., and in December, 1886, set sail for his native country. After a pleasant visit of two months among the friends and associates of his childhood he came back to America, acompanied by a brother of his friend, a Mr. Winkler, and seeing a chance for a good investment, located at Winkler's Mills, Riley County, purchasing the general store formerly owned by R. Burke. Since then he has confined his attention to the business in hand with uniform success.

On the 14th of March. 1889, occurred the marriage of Otto Buchheim and Miss Amelia Winkler, at the bride's home in Winkler's Mills. Mrs. Buchheim was born in Riley County, this State, July 30, 1866, and is a daughter of the late August Winkler. The latter was one of the pioneer settlers of Kansas, coming to it during its Territorial days, about 1858, and becoming one of its most prosperous and prominent citize