![]() Munjor Explorations
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Peter LeikerAddress:
About this Exploration: In 1874 the reigning Czar began to remove the privileges Catherine the Great had promised the Volga Germans. Consequently, the Volga-Germans began to search for a new homeland. In 1875 they sent a scouting party of five men to America to inform themselves of the climate, soil and living conditions suitable for their farming lifestyle. Peter Leiker was one of these men in the scouting party, which also included Jacob Ritter from Luzern, Nicholas Schamme of Graf, Peter Stoecklein from Zug and Anton Wasinger of Schoenchen. The five men departed from Obermonjou, Russia, in 1874, arrived in New York and set out for the plains of western Kansas. They found the prospects of life in America and the farmlands favorable and returned to Russia with their report. Encouraged by the accounts of these men, a group of colonists left Russia the following year. They landed in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 23, 1875, and traveled westward to Topeka, Kansas. After spending the winter in Topeka, many of the immigrants then arrived in Ellis County in the spring of 1876. Peter, born in 1836, came from Obermonjou, Russia. He died in Munjor, Kansas, in 1927 at age 90. His grave marker is in the east section of the cemetery, approximately 10 grave markers north of the crucifixion scene in the center of the cemetery. (75’ north and 2 rows east of the center crucifix). |
![]() Lilly Binder Munjor, KS 67601 Phone: 785.628.1970 Munjor Improvement District
P.O. Box 98 - 893 Main
Munjor, KS 67601 Phone: 785.625.5397 ![]() |