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A large farm extended down Mohler Road, and across Cooper Road and south across Cooper where the Sacred Heart School is now built.  It was quite a large farm -- mainly a dairy farm, and was owned by Hammel.   They milked quite a number of cows there.  The land on each side of Cooper Road from Mohler going west was a good place for a dairy and to raise crops for the cows.  Originally that piece of land was farmed by Baumgartner, who drowned in the Cooper Creek in the back of the place.  His family continued to farm the land for a few years and then it ended up that my mother's brother, Frank Broermann, moved onto the farm when he married one of the Baumgartner daughters.  

He farmed there until the Vonderhaar family bought the farm - in 1922, I believe.  Frank Broermann then moved to a farm that he purchased on the northeast corner of Cooper and Reading roads.