Township 144 Range 95 (1916)
Township 147 Range 94 (1916)
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DEHLINGER - SPERBER FAMILIES
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Township 146 Range 96 (1916) Township 144 Range 95 (1916) Township 147 Range 94 (1916) |
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THE DEHLINGER FAMILY The Dehlinger family background was mostly railroad people. John Dehlinger, granddad‘s father, lived in Dickinson, North Dakota. They had two boys Hubert (granddad) and Aubrey (Link). Hube married Alma Sperber in Woodlake, Minnesota in the fall of 1907. They moved to Oakdale, North Dakota and ran the grocery store and
postoffice, "Dehlinger and Larsen". Later Granddad sold out to Larsen. They were brothers-in-law [Christ Andrew Larsen married to Elizabeth, Alma's sister]. While at Oakdale, Donald was born. I don't know whether Frank was born there or at the home near the river. He didn't live, he died as an infant.
When Hube sold the store at Oakdale, he moved to the ranch north of Dunn Center. There he built everything we had. Link died in Washington state.
I remember hearing about the first North Dakota brand book. There were ten brands registered in it and the bar X was one -X. That was Granddads brand. The Connolly two bar was also one of the first ten.
Most of the Dehlinger people that I know of are buried in the Dickinson cemetery. Grandma Dehlinger came from a well-to-do family in Minnesota. She had two other sisters and one brother. Grandma's mother lived with her and granddad until her death. She was 91 years old and died September 10. 1945. She and Grandpa Sperber, Wm. F. Sperber, came to Dunn County in 1895. but returned to Woodlake. Minnesota. Then, in 1925, they returned to Dunn County to reside there permanently.
My dad, Don Dehlinger and Ella Krieger were married February 4, 1940 at Granddad Krieger‘s home.
I know that Granddad Dehlinger figured if you couldn't get everything you needed from Sears and Roebuck, Montgomery Wards or grow it you didn't need it. He made things for Gale and I that no other kid in the country had.
Hubert John was born on 1 October 1882 in Michigan. He was the son of John B. (1853 New York) and Edna E. Dexter (1861 Wisconsin) who were married 21 November 1874 in Birch Run, Saginaw County, Michigan. Hubert's siblings included, at least, Garret (1876-1894) and Aubrey (Link). He married Alma Sperber on 29 October 1907 in Woodlake, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
Alma was born 6 October 1889 in Minnesota to William and Bertha Sperber [See below].
Initially Herb and his family homestead in Township 146, Range 96, Section 23 then moved to Township 144, Range 95, and then Township 147, Range 94, Sections 22 and 24 and also they owned some land in Township 146, Range 16. In 1911 he was appointed Postmaster at Oakdale which he held until 1916.
Donald's Obituary Donald's Burial and his wife Ella's Burial Frank's Burial William was born in Prussia to Christian (1812) and Caroline Mittlestadt (1816) Sperber on 14 October 1843. His siblings included Augusta, Louisa, Julius, Christian (1861), and Caroline (1863). The family arrived in Minnesota in 1855.
William is a Civil War Veteran having enlisted on 1 July 1864 in Faribault County, Minnesota and reporting on 4 July 1864. He served in Company K, 6th Minnesota Infantry Regiment until 28 July 1865. He was mustered out in Missouri at the end of the war. He started receiving a Civil War pension on 20 February 1886 and his wife started receiving a widow's pension on 18 July 1910.
On 27 April 1872 in Renville County, Minnesota he married Elizabeth "Bertha" Roschild. The family remained in Minnesota until the 1890's when they relocated to North Dakota and while there lived in several places. There were four children from their marriage; Hattie, Christian, Elizabeth Caroline who married Christ Larsen (1880-1917), then Joseph W. Smith, and Alma. He was the Postmaster in Oakdale in 1898, one of the earliest Postmasters in the county and then later became a Dunn County Probate Judge. William died at the Fisher Hospital in Stark County after long treatment for kidney problems in 1910. Bertha lived until 1945 and maintained a residence at Killdeer.
Bertha's Burial Hattie's Burial Christian's Burial Lizzie's Burial Alma's Death Notice Alma's Burial |
