John Dingmann and his eleven sons in 1930
Left to right: John Sr., Adolph, William, John Jr., Al, Robert, Jerome, Paul, Ralph, Francis, Carl and Sylvester
| Parents: Education: Marriage: |
John Henry Dingmann Bertha Gertrude Stimmler High school graduate [Source: 1940 U.S. Federal Census] Lorraine Isabelle Parent October 20, 1938 St. John's Catholic Church Foley, Benton, Minnesota |
| Children: | Joan Helen | Nov. 26, 1939 | |
| Baby Boy | Mar. 9, 1941 | ||
| Douglas Edward | July 22, 1942 | ||
| Mary Margaret | Dec. 1, 1943 | ||
| Doris Ann | Nov. 17, 1945 | ||
| Arthur Jerome | July 19, 1951 | ||
| Allen Gerard | Sept. 26, 1954 |
| Notes: | At the time of the April 15, 1910 U.S. federal census, Francis was 3 years old and living with his parents and |
| 12 siblings in Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota. His father was working as a retail merchant in a hardware
store.
At the time of the Jan. 30, 1920 U.S. federal census, Francis was 12 years old and living with his parents and ten siblings in Clear Lake, Sherburne, Minnesota. His father was working as a farmer in general farming. Two of his elder brothers were salesmen in a grocery store, one brother was a salesman in a hardware store and another was a farm laborer working out. Francis was attending school at the time. At the time of the April 14, 1930 U.S. federal census, Francis was 23 years old and a lodger in a hotel in Keewatin, Itasca, Minnesota. He was working as a clerk in a hardware store. Francis married Lorraine Parent on Oct. 20, 1938 at St. John's Catholic Church in Foley. As of the Apr. 4, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Francis E was 33 years old and living with his wife Lorraine and their baby daughter Joan H. in their own home valued at $2,500 on Center St. in Clear Lake Village, Benton, Minnesota. Francis had been living in the same place as of Apr. 1, 1935 but Lorraine had been living in rural Benton County at that time. Lorraine told the census enumberator that both she and her husband were high school graduates. Francis was the proprietor of a retail hardware store and worked 60 hours a week for 52 weeks a year. They lived in Clear Lake until moving to 4 Oak St. in Kimball in 1943. Over the years they owned and operated Dingmann Hardware, Implement, and Funeral Home in Clear Lake and Kimball. |
| Ancestry: | The Stimmler/Stimler Line |
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