Ramsey County History – Summer 2014: “The Stork Family in St. Paul, 1914–1916”

The Stork Family in St. Paul, 1914–1916
Author: Rebecca A. Mavencamp

William E. and Grace C. Stork moved to St. Paul from western Minnesota in 1903 along with their children, Florence C. and Norman Clinton. They built a home in the western part of the city near the Mississippi River in what was then farmland. Surviving family documents, letters, and diaries (1842–1975) are the source for this lively account of the Stork family members as they dealt with routine and exceptional events in their lives on the eve of the entry of the US into World War I. Excerpts from Stork diaries give immediacy and insight to these four personalities, their friends and neighbors, and the world in which they lived.
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