Among the essentially representative and public spirited citizens of Jasper county, Missouri, Daniel K. Wenrich holds prestige as one whose interest and participation in public affairs have ever been of the most insistent order. He was born on the 17th of March, 1848, the place of his nativity being Berks county, Pennsylvania, and he is a son of David and Kathrine (Kinports) Wenrich, the former of whom was long as well known and decidedly popular minister of the United Brethren church. The father was likewise a native of Berks county, Pennsylvania, where he was born on the 18th of December, 1828. He was reared and educated in his native place, where he was a minister for a number of years. He removed from the old Keystone state of the Union to Jones county, Iowa, in the year 1849, and in connection with his ministerial duties he operated a large farm. He was one of the early western circuit riders, having come to Aurora, Missouri, when that place had but one store. He resided in Missouri for a short time in 1868. and in 1870 he went to Elgin, Kansas, where he entered a tract of government land. His farm was supposed to be in the southern part of Kansas, but when the government surrey was made it was found that he was not in Kansas and as a result he lost his entire property. He then returned to Iowa, where he continued to maintain his home until a short time prior to his death, which occurred in 1901. As he felt the encroachment of old age David Wenrich decided to pay a last visit to each of his children, and just as he had completed the round, the last one being a resident of Pullman, Washington territory, he was stricken with heart failure and passed away at the advanced age of seventy three years, Mrs. Wenrich, whose maiden name was Kathrine Kinports, was born and raised in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, where was solemnized her marriage, and she died near Muscatine, Iowa, in the year 1859.[The History of Jasper County, Missouri and its People, Joel Thomas Livingston; PUBLIC DOMAIN]