This blog honors Gerhard Schumacher. He was born in the year of Custer's Last Stand (1876) and he died in the year that man first set foot on the moon (1969). Gerhard was born in Minnesota, attended college at St. John's University (studied to be a Roman Catholic priest according to his daughter, Sr. Michelle), homesteaded near the Badlands of western North Dakota, married Clara Wise at 43 years of age(a woman 20 years his junior), and had five children, 18 grandchildren, and 28 great-grandchildren. The number of 2nd-great grandchildren is expanding continually.
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