Frank Josef Domesle, the only member of his family to emigrate, came to North Dakota from Michelsdorf, Austria. He arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, in March 1912, after a stormy two week voyage on a freighter. He came to Casselton, North Dakota, because many of his friends and neighbors from Michelsdorf had already established homes there. For a time he worked on the railroad and also on a bonanza farm. In about 1916 he began to work for the Edward Stangler Sr., family on their farm near Alice, North Dakota. In January 1921, he was married to Auguste Bit at Alice. She had come from Michelsdorf with her mother in 1920. The Domesles farmed for a short time near Fingal and in the autumn of 1923 moved to the Dave Ellsbury farm near Lucca. In 1928 they purchased a quarter of section 26, which was originally homesteaded by the Brockett family in about 1893. All of these farms are in Binghampton Township. Their daughters are: Doris (Mrs. Oral Otteson of Wolverton, Minnesota) and Ethel, (Mrs. R. E. Stangler of Fingal, North Dakota).

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 57