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John Lauber and Juanita Riley moved into the Lauber family house after they married on March 28, 1943. Their children, Mary and John Jr., grew up in the house.

In 1869, Fred Gerteis homesteaded this land. In 1900, he traveled back to Germany to get his 23-year-old nephew, Albert Lauber, to help work the land by promising the farm eventually would become his. After Albert Lauber returned to Germany to get…