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The Wegenke family research starts with A. F. Wilhelm Wegenke, who was an orphan. As a small child, he remembered being loaded into a boxcar and given a name. At this time there is no research of his parentage. He may have been German, French or any European descent. He came to American and settled in the Rochester, Minnesota area. He and his wife, K Justina Mietzner Ehrenberg Wegenke, had three children; Anna, William F. Jr. and Pauline. William came to North Dakota in 1905, and for $2700 he bought a quarter of land. He married Clara Schroeder on March 23, 1909. He brought his family to North Dakota in 1915, when a house was built. He raised his family on that farm; his son, Herman, farmed the land and raised his family there, and now Herman's daughter, Kay Wegenke Suko and her husband, Calvin, are the caretakers of the Wegenke farm. Work will continue on the Schroeder family tree as well.
Every year, on the first weekend of August, the family gathers at the Wegenke family farm west of Jamestown, North Dakota.
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