John M. Huber was born in Gueresdorf, Austria and came to the United States, on the same boat with Frank Bosch when he was only 17 years old. He was an apprenticed cabinet maker and helped make many beautiful buildings and is especially remembered by the beautiful altar and communion railing and pews he made for the old Holy Trinity Church North and East of Fingal.

He married Frank Bosch's oldest daughter, Mary in 1900. He filed for a homestead near Annamoose, North Dakota. After eight years there he sold the farm and moved with his family of five children to a farm north of Fingal, where Wilbert Shuster now lives. He built all the buildings on this farm and many other buildings in the community.

His children are, Matilda Loibl now living in Fingal; Marian Lindner, Valley City; Frank Huber, Miami, Florida; Rosella Parker of Seattle, Washington; Clara Zaun of Rural Valley City; Pauline Manetos of Chicago (deceased) and Henry Huber of Everett, Washington. He died in 1949. Mary Bosch Huber died in 1954.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 108