The year 1904 brought twenty-year-old Isidore Morth to New York from Schwendgraben, Austria-Hungary. Because he needed a job at once, he traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, where the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was being held. There Isidore found work in a cement factory.
Since fatherland ties were great, he decided to go north to be with friends from his country. He worked in Minnesota for a time and then moved on into North Dakota. Isidore was employed as a farm laborer on the John Heiling farm near Tower City.
Like many young men from European countries, Isidore Morth had learned a trade in his homeland. His skill as a carpenter was evident in the numerous barns, granaries and houses which he built in the Fingal area. He was one of the carpenters who built St. Paul's Church in Kathryn.
Soon after coming to the Fingal community he met Theresia Buerger. At the age of twenty-one she had left Pilgersdorf, Austria-Hungary, for North Dakota. Miss Buerger traveled alone from the port of entry to her cousins, John and Maria Leitner, north of Fingal, unable to speak English except for the words "Nord Dak€™-a-ta".
Because she found the prairies of North Dakota barren and lonesome after the hills and forests of her homeland, she joyfully assumed her first job of planting trees on her cousins' farmstead. She asked her employer to buy her a pair of shoes on one of his infrequent trips to Valley City. When he returned with a pair which was too small, she promptly chopped off the heels for greater comfort.
On June 6, 1906 Theresia Buerger and Isidore Morth were married at Holy Trinity Church northeast of Fingal. As the years progressed, so did the size of their family. It was in 1921 that Isidore used his skill to build a larger home in Fingal. Grandfather John Buerger had already joined this family and did farm work in the Fingal area. He died in 1936. Children in the family were Henry, Ludwig, John, Mary, (Mrs. Joseph Huber, Jr.), Elizabeth, (Mrs. A. J. Smorada), Frank and Herman.
After fifty-six years of marriage, death came to Theresia Buerger Morth in February of 1963 followed by Isidore's death in December of 1969. As of October 1975, four children, eighteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren survive.
Source: Barnes County History 1976 Page 163