Chapter 12

  (To  listen to the audio of this blog post, use the purple play button.) The Poor Farm Protect or Punish? by Jim Potter Within five weeks of the death of Richard Borchart, on May 7, 1899, in Inman, Kansas, his widow, Anna, and their three children moved to Haven to be closer to Anna’s in-laws. Just five years earlier, Robert and Martha Borchert had welcomed the newlyweds from Germany to Kansas to start a new life. For unknown reasons, at some point, Anna, and her … [Read more...] about Researching Robert