| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Herman Gerken???s wife, Mary Catherine (Schulte) Gerken, may have had relatives who preceded them here; records of others with the Schulte surname in the New Vienna area do exist prior to the Gerkens arrival in 1851; at any rate, there was a trail blazed by other German Catholics to the New Vienna area, a trail that ultimately brought the Gerken family to eastern Iowa.
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