During the summer of 1915 Peter Frahm of Teeds Grove, Iowa, traveled to a farm eight miles northeast of Wimbledon, North Dakota, to investigate the possibility of buying some of the famed North Dakota prairie. Dealing through the Dennstad Land Co., he purchased the farm from T. L. Hazlette, who had homesteaded some years before.
After selling his farm at Teeds Grove, Iowa, Mr. Frahm packed his belongings into two box cars. Included were four cows, four horses, and a 1915 Buick. The family traveled by passenger train arriving in Wimbledon the same day as the box cars and belongings March 4, 1916. They drove the cows out to the farm with their saddle pony and hauled the belongings on hayracks with horse power.
Peter Frahm, Sr. was born in Iowa, June 6, 1870, spending his boyhood near a small town of Teeds Grove. He married Minnie Roeh, whose family had moved to Iowa from Germany when she was only two years old. From this union seven children were born: Peter C.
Frahm, Jr., of Sebeka, Minnesota; Clarence J. of Temple City, California; Ervin E. of Dazey, North Dakota; Helma, Mrs. Kenneth Thompson of Sanborn, North Dakota; Berniece - Mrs. Vic Kjenstad of Downey, California; Eldon, deceased in 1974; Agnes, Mrs. M. T. Mello of Downey, California. All of the children were raised to adulthood on the farm. Ervin Frahm was born in Iowa and moved to North Dakota, with his parents; farming with his father for many years. In the early 1940s he purchased the home farm from his father. Ervin married Gladys Hostetler in 1929 to which three children were born: Eugene of Dazey, North Dakota; Phyllis, Mrs. Les Breitbach of Valley City, North Dakota; Karen, Mrs. James Ludwig of Rogers, North Dakota. All are graduates of Wimbledon High School. Eugene married Pearl Mahlke of Wimbledon, in 1950. Four children were born to them: Mona, Donn, James and Joan. Mona and Donn have graduated from Wimbledon High School, James is a senior and Joan a sophomore. Phyllis married Les Breitbach of Luverne, North Dakota, in 1960. Two children were born to them: Mark who is a freshman in High School and Jane Ann who is in the seventh grade. Karen married James Ludwig of Rogers, North Dakota, in 1955. They have four children: Julie, who is a graduate of North Central of Barnes. David is a Junior, Mary Jane a Sophomore, and Susan a seventh grader. Eugene, who farmed with his father, purchased an adjoining farm in 1954. In 1968 his folks retired and moved to Valley City. Eugene now operates both farms.
The Ervin Frahm family are all members of the Methodist Church.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 73