MR. AND MRS. AMOS DULIN

Amos Dulin was born two miles west of Agenda in Elk Creek Township, Republic County, Kansas, August 21, 1897.  I received the given name of Lars Amos.  Amos was the name of the owner of the farm on which I was born, Amos Pierce.  I liked the name Amos better so have always used my middle name.

My father came to America from Sweden when he was twenty years old, and his first job of work was for Amos Pierce.  He worked for him on the Amos Pierce farm south of Belleville.  Later he rented a farm south of Agenda.

My mother came from Sweden.  She was a baby of only six months when she crossed the ocean.  Grandfather P. L. Norlund came to America and two years later sent for his wife and family.  From Sweden, Grandmother brought her children, three little daughters, to America.

Grandfather homesteaded one mile north and one mile east of Talmo Kansas.  My wife was born Ada Irene Walker, daughter of J. A. and Alice Walker, in Jefferson City, Missouri, May 10, 1890.  They came to Kansas in 1900 and settled on a farm three miles east and two miles south of Wayne, Kansas.

My wife and I were married Jan. 10th, 1927 at Belleville, Kansas and a year later moved to our home in Norway Township near Norway Village.

A brief history of Amos Dulin.

THE OLD REPUBLIC COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Oh How well we can remember

The Republic County Kansas Courthouse square;

And the old Republic County Courthouse

In the Republic County Courthouse square.

Altho I now am far away in the Beautiful State of

Oregon so fair.

Still within my memory lingers 

The old Republic Courthouse

In the Republic County Courthouse square.

When I received my Republic County newspaper,

I was surprised to see

What an April Fool caper; which old Mother Nature

Pulled on us there.

On the old Republic County Courthouse,

In the Republic County Courthouse square.

But we are very thankful

She was so kind and fair

To see that an angel from heaven was there.

To guard and take heed, 

With those men who worked with such speed

To successfully extinguish

Those flames with such speed

And that none of those heroic men

Had to lose their kind lives.

And be forever separated

From their dear children and wives.

So after all in meeting,

To cope with such pranks,

We have many things in common

For which we offer God, our thanks,

And also, be fair, or at least near so-

I think that such deserves to be called hero.

"For deeds done well,

And deeds done wise,"

Were Republic County mens' slogan

While protecting each others life.

Composed by Amos Dulin

Then had residence in Aurora, Oregon

April 10, 1938

We were in Oregon at the time the old courthouse burned, on April night of April 1st, 1938.

THE NEW REPUBLIC COUNTY COURTHOUSE

Oh what beautiful architectural splendor

We behold

Our new Republic County Courthouse

Trimmed in silvered nickel, with a tint of gold.

With it beautiful wall frontage of granite so fair.

In the Republic County Courthouse square,

With the name of each township entered there,

Which the workmen with brawn and brain,

Have inscribed on the various window pane.

For an honor to the people in each township

living there.

And which no one else could beat

For a tribute to Belleville

And our Republic County seat.

The City of bells and beautiful belles.

One of the most beautiful and clean cities

In our Sunflower, Jayhawk, wheat state

of Kansas so fair.

Written in 1939                                                                          Amos Dulin

Copied 1961 for the Centennial Year of 1961. --

THE KANSAS CENTENNIAL, 1961

Our God while creating the sky and the earth,

In his infinite mercy in heaven above

He established a portion for someday the birth

Of the state which we so dearly love.

     O Kansas, dear Kansas

     Our State of the free

     We pay homage and honor to thee.

We pay homage and honor to the birth of our state

This centennial year of '61.

Ad Astra per Aspera, "To the stars through difficulties."

For the victory she so dearly won.

We must also pay tribute and honor in fond memory

To our dear President Abraham Lincoln,

Won on January 29th, 1861 caused it to be

The 34th state in the U. S. A.

Our nation of the home of the brave and the land of the free.

We will always pay honor and glory

In fond memory, 

To those who died to set us all free.

now we must pay tribute sincere and true

And thank God for the flag of our great nation

Three cheers for Old Glory, the Red, the White, and the Blue.

By Amos Dulin, #1, Scandia Kansas                     Kansas Clod Hopping Farmer Post