Gustav Adolph Luther came to America from Selchow, Germany, as a young man.

In 1881 he homesteaded in the Wimbledon area in what is now Pierce Township, being among the first settlers there.

Later on, his father, Carl Luther, came and also took up a homestead.

Adolph Luther married Johanna Berg of Litchfield, Minnesota and two children, Signe and Carl were born to this marriage. Adolph Luther, always a booster for North Dakota, died at his farm home in the spring of 1924.

He shipped the first carload of grain out of Wimbledon before the elevator was operative.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 144