John A. Reishus arrived in Nome on March 28, 1910, from Rushford, Minnesota. The move was made upon a doctor's advice to live in a more arid climate because of his wife's poor health. Mrs. Reishus lived to the ripe old age of 92.

After working in the hardware store in Nome for one year, John became manager of the Nome Telephone Company in 1911. He continued in this capacity until his retirement in 1936. Telephone line repairs, in the early days, were done by means of a horse-drawn rig, but later, about 1913, John acquired a secondhand, topless Ford, which became the repair truck. Of course, this vehicle could not be used in the wintertime, so it was back to the horse-drawn wagon or sleigh at that time.

Alma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Reishus, married William Herzog at Nome, North Dakota. William came to Nome in May, 1911, and was the fourth station agent to serve the Northern Pacific Railway there. After a brief stint at Kathryn, North Dakota, for three months, he returned to Nome where he remained the agent until his retirement in 1962, when the station was closed.

William came originally from Illinois in 1906 to join a brother already employed by the Northern Pacific in Minnesota. He transferred in 1910 from the Minnesota division to the Fargo division and the Fargo-Marion Branch lines.

His avocations were many; among them the raising of prize-winning chickens and other poultry, bee-keeping, and gardening. He served on the Nome town board for a number of years, in the mid-thirties and early forties.

The Herzogs now reside in a house originally built by Lars Knutson, an early settler of the area, in 1904. This was one of the early structures in Nome, with a bit of wooden scroll work adorning the outside and sections of colored glass in some of the windows. Among other things, it houses a collection of early railroad memorabilia.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 203