In the spring of 1886, a group of people from Kulm, Bessarabia, who had first squatted on lands in teh Kulm Township in Hutchinson County, south east South Dakota (Dakota Territory), settles in the area south of the present-day Kulm North Dakota. Kulm, Bessarabia, founded in 1815, was in teh Akkerman District and was Evangelical Lutheran.
The Table of Contents includes: Introduction, Foreword, Kulm Centennial, First Decade, City History, Businesses, Churches, Organizations, Whitestone Hill Battlefield, Townships, Weather, Agriculture, Wind Farm, Outdoor Recreation, Kulm Public School, KHS Alumni, Family Histories, Military Tribute, Celebrated Citizens, Memories, Ads.
The Families Histories for pages 183 to 344 include: Aldrich, Anderson, Asplund, Bader, Batsch, Beckstrom, Bender, Berntson, Bertsch, Bethke, Bjur, Borth, Brandenburger, Brauer, Braun, Brosz, Brovold, Buchholz, Buerkley, Busch, Contreraz, Crickenberger, Dahl, Decker, Delurier, Denning, Diede, Dockter, Doelgerm, Eiter, Elhard, Entzi, Entzminger, Erickson, Evenson, Feiken, Fey, Flegel, Forster, Fredenburg, Fregien, Gackle, Gahner, Gall, Gemar, George, Gerszewski, Giesler, Goehner, Gorman, Grenz, Grosz, Gunderson, Haag, Haffner, Hagen, Hamlin, Hankel, Hartman, Hauff, Heck, Hehr, Heidinger, Herman, Hermann, Hildebrand, Hille, Hiller, Hilscher, Himmerlich, Hintzman, Hoffman, Hollan, Holmgren, Honl, Hunt, Irion, Jacobson, Janke, Jans, Johannes, Johnson.
King, Kinzler, Kjergaard, Klein, Kleingartner, Klettke, Klusman, Knudson, Koenig, Kownif, Konrad, Kosanke, Kost, Kramlich, Krueger, Kusler, Laeger, Land, Lautt, Liechty, Lind, Linden, Linder, Lindgren, Little, Loven, Luck, Lundgren, Magnan, Mahin, Malm, Mathern, Mathson, McClean, McDermid, Melroe, Miller, Mogck, Moser, Mueller, Mund, Mundt, Myles, Nell, Nelson, Nesje, Nill, Okerlund, Pesek, Peterson, Pfaff, Presler, Raabe, Random, Rath, Reeverts, Rick, Rodning, Roloff, Rost, Rott, Rudolph, Rutschke, Sayler, Schlabsz, Schlauch, Schlecht, Schlenker, Schlepp, Schnabel, Schock, Schott, Schuldheisz, Siewert, Smith, Solheim, Steiner, Stevahn, Stothert, Strobel, Stroh, Swanke, Swartz, Taszarek, Theilen, Tjerlund-Rhee, Tjerlund, Trask, Tweet, Ukaonu, Van Galder, Van Gorkonm, Vetter, Vogel, Wahl, Walker, Wanzek, Ward, Welk, Wendland, Widmer, Wirch, Wirrenga, Wulf, Zachrison, Zahn, Zimmerman, Zinter.
Military Tribute by Jeffrey Malm of men: World War I-- Robert Kurtz, Fred Rott; World War II-- Willard O., Orth, Edgar Arthur Kjos, Gordon Arne Johnson, Elmer Burkle, Theodore Howard Vetter, Clifford Eugene Ost, Wendel D. Moore, Alvin Einar Moe; Vietnam-- Lyle Maynard Johannes. Malm also authored the excellent Foreword of the history of Kulm.
