Autobiography of William G. Starck: A North Dakota Pioneer

Item — Folder: SC 592

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Photocopy of typescript autobiography that documents the lives of his German immigrant parents, Theodore and Wilhelmina Starck, who lived and farmed in Missouri and Nebraska and Starck's homesteading in Oliver County, N.D. in 1902. Includes mention of his parents trying to farm in Nebraska, their return to Missouri and coming back to Nebraska, his own experiences handling horses, the hospitality of German Russians in N.D., threshing, and a rooster used as an alarm clock.

Dates

1949.

Access

The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the NDSU Archives.

Biography

William Gustav Starck was born on Sept. 6, 1875 at Carondelet, Mo., son of Theodore and Wilhelmina (Junke) Starck. The family lived near Lincoln, Nebraska before homesteaded in Oliver County, N.D. in 1902. He married Adeline Starck in Owatonna, Minn. on July 1, 1908. Together they had two children; Erwin, and Anna. He farmed in Sec. 14, Twp. 142, Range 83 in Oliver County. He died on Dec. 3, 1960 in Burleigh County, N.D.