Frank Stangler, with his wife Anna (Wavra), and their four children, Marie, born in 1874, Frank - 1877, Emil -, 1879, and Gustav - 1885, left Michelsdorf, Austria, in March 1887, to come to North Dakota. They homesteaded the northeast quarter of section 34 near Lucca in Binghampton Township. Children born at the farm home were Robert in 1889, Ernest in 1890, and Anna, who died in childhood, in 1892.

Marie, Mrs. Frank Weber, lived in Snohomish, Washington. Frank, Emil, and Gustav farmed in the Fingal-Lucca area in Binghampton Township. Robert, who began to work in the bank at Lucca, later became manager of The Bank of North Dakota at Bismarck and subsequently manager of The State Mill and Elevator at Grand Forks. Ernest, who married Louise Lindner at Fingal on November 19, 1919, farmed the original homestead which is now farmed by their son Raymond. The other children of Ernest and Louise are: Evelyn, Mrs. D. Schmidt of Fairbanks, Alaska, Gerald of Fargo, and Shirley, Mrs. Gerald Beckerleg of Poughkeepsie, New York.

Two rooms of the present house were part of the original homestead. Another part of the old house was removed and used as a bunkhouse for hired men during the summer and as a harness shop in the winter. The original barn still stands as does a larger barn built in 1910.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 232