Abstract 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.