Andrew Wahl came to Bartley Township as a young man in 1902 from River Falls, Wisconsin. He worked on farms in the Township and in 1914 married Minnie Larson. They rented several different farms in Bartley until 1943 when he and son Russell bought their own land and lived on the E1/2 of Section 23-144-60. Minnie Wahl died very suddenly in March of 1945 at a Homemaker's meeting. Andrew continued to live with his son and family until his death in 1966 at the age of 86.

Russell Wahl married Dorothy Benson in 1941 and they have five children. John, practicing medicine in Cavalier, North Dakota, Margaret, living in Grand Forks, North Dakota with her husband Ronald Lima and son Scott Andrew, Cynthia, living in Minneapolis with her husband Arden LaBonte and daughter Melinda Jo, Rebecca attending nursing school in Jamestown, North Dakota and Richard a student at North Dakota State University in Fargo.

Source: Griggs County History 1879 - 1976 Page 233