Fred Noltimier

Fred Noltimier was born near Dusseldorf, Germany in 1854. He came to Barnes County with two brothers, Louis and Charles in 1880. He worked two years on the Kernkamp farm and then returned to Germany to marry Dora Ickerman, who was born in 1859. Returning to Barnes County, the couple homesteaded four miles northwest of Oriska, North Dakota. Here eight children were born,

  1. three of which died in infancy or shortly thereafter.

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  4. Lydia born in 1885, married Floyd Drake and to this union were born three children: Dora born in 1918, now Mrs. Larry Humphrey, Van Nuys, California; Minnie, born in 1890, married Lester Menefu; Elsie married Raymond R. Henneman.

  5. Eric born 1895, married Elsie Anna Schultze in 1920 and farmed until his death in 1940. Of their children, Harriet Annabelle, born in 1925, married Dr. Roy Ottinger of Jamestown, North Dakota. They have seven children: Ann, Paul, Alan, Mary, Roy II, Amy and Eric III.

Fred Noltimier died in 1931 and Dora in 1942.

Eric Rudolph, born in 1920, died in 1947, leaving a son, Eric Rudolph II. Ralph Richard, the third child, resides in Charles City, Iowa with his wife Doreen and daughters Carla and Vanessa.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 179