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Anton Stimmler's family immigrated to
Manayunk, Pennsylvania in 1843, then settled in Victoria, Minnesota, where he learned the stone mason craft. He went to
St. Augusta with John Kaufmann, his nephew, to build the parish church there in
1873. In 1878 he and his wife, Cresence, settled on what is now the Lawrence Juenemann
farm. Mary Dingmann Arnold, the granddaughter of Anton, remembers him as a
hefty man capable of working with granite, but also with the sensitivity of an artist. Her sharpest memory is the day of
"Uncle Paul's" (Stimmler) wedding, the sight of her
grandpa decorating the wedding cake with "little sheep made of frosting."
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