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Thomas Dagobert Kerker was born around 1880 in St Paul, Minnesota. He was the son of
Tom was a businessman and owner of the Harper Nut Company. He hated the middle name "Dagobert", and never used it.
Around 1910, in the course of a trip to Currie, Minnesota, he met and later married Sophie Ann Jensen. They had four children:
The Harper Nut Company, a competitor of Fisher Nuts, collapsed in the Great Depression. Tom Kerker died of a heart attack, possibly caused by a blood clot, in 1936 or '37. His widow Sophie moved to the duplex, and lived there until her death in 1977.
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