William Bahl

Migrating to Barnes County in 1887, William Bahl came from Wooster, Ohio. He settled in Binghamton Township in Section 28, filing his homestead papers in 1888.

In 1889 he married Belle Sumner, who had come to Binghamton Township with her father, William Sumner in 1885.

To this union were born two children, Alice, December 13, 1890 and Lottie, September 26, 1894. Lottie married Carl Johnson, who came from Denmark at the age of ten. They raised a family of seven children:

  1. Hazel, (Mrs. Emil Giske);

  2. Luella (Mrs. Jack Hill);

  3. Grace (Mrs. Robert Scallop);

  4. Phyllis (Mrs. Lloyd Erdmann) and

  5. three sons, Earl,

  6. Clifford and

  7. Leslie.

Mrs. Bahl passed away April 28, 1927.

Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 21