This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Harker Mansion First Brick in Storm Lake
In 1874 Storm Lake’s oldest mansion, the Harker home, was built for banker James Harker and his wife Mary. The house, with its French style and first-burnt local brick, hosts eleven children in its history, an England-born lineage, and memories of civil war hardships, while widow Mary Allison Harker, 83, preserves its heritage and notes her vote for women’s rights.
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Des Moines Register
James Harker
Storm Lake
Queen Victoria
Church of England
England
Thomas Allison
America
Mary Allison
Illinois
Wisconsin
Jefferson
Harker
First National Bank of
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
West
California