E.W. "Gene" Hart was born in Kingman County, Kansas in 1902. I finished
     high school at Kingman, Kansas, and went to college at Kansas University,
     Lawrence, Kansas. I coached a few years, then went into sales as a traveling
     salesman for John Deere Plow Co.
       Anna Schupbach and I were married June 6, 1931. In 1932 I joined the
     Schupbach Implement Company, later buying a quarter interest in the business.
     My wife already owned a quarter interest. We, together with my wife's father,
     John Schupbach operated the business until we sold to Laurence and Harry
     Schupbach.
       Our daughter, Gene Ann, was born in 1933. In December 1952, she married
     Robert W. Kline; at this time he is a Colonel in the United States Air
     Force, 1979.
       We have two grandchildren, Robin Ann and Jeffrey Eugene, and two great
     grandsons, Nathan C., son of Robin and her husband John M. Parrish, and
     Aaron Robert, son of Jeffrey and his wife, Donna E. (Skaggs) Kline.
       I am a past president of Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce and was
     elected on the City Council several terms. I finished Harry Hill's term
     as Mayor and was also elected for two terms.
       I am a member of the Masons, Shrine and Consistory. At present we are
     retired and live in Kiowa.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 220 
     Submitted by: E.W. Hart