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'''December 07, 1912 Spokesman-Review Page 6:'''
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[[file:1912-12-07-sr-p6-peter-carstens-50th-anniversary.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]'''Raised Five Children Without Doctor'''

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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Carstens

Peter Carstens and his wife, who live
at 829 Fairview avenue, Spokane, and
who celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their wedding at the home of
their eldest son, Oscar Carstens,
north of Reardan Tuesday, the same
day that their granddaughter, Miss
Emma Carstens, became the bride of
Robert Joslin, a Davenport meat man,
have had the unusual experience of
living together a half century and
raising five children without the
necessity of a physician entering their
home. For nearly 11 years the couple
have resided in Spokane, whither they
retired after 22 years of ranch life
on the homestead where they
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary a few days ago.

Married in Schleswig, Germany,
in 1862, Mr. and Mrs, Carstens decided
upon a home in America eight years
later, disembarking at New York city
June 4, 1870, having made the trip on
a sailing boat that consumed 50 days

After five years in the Empire state
they went to Ringgold, Iowa, and three
years later by prairie schooner to
Kansas The hot winds of the Kansas
plains drove them to Colorado
after a residence of but six weeks in
the Sunflower state.

At Denver, in the summer of 1878,
Mr. Carstens organized an emigrant
train of 100 wagons, such a number
at the time being necessary because
of the outrages of hostile Indians
between Denver and Boise City, Idaho,
where they were held six weeks by
the government officials, who warned
them of an outbreak among the
Snakes. From Boise City the train
made its way by easy stages to Baker
City, Ore., then to Walla Walla, where
the Carstens lived for a year, In the
spring of 1879 the Carstens came to
the homestead north of Reardan.

Four sons, Oscar, Henry, Earnest and
Charles, are married and have farms
in Lincoln and Spokane counties.
There are 14 grandchildren.

Mr. and Mrs. Carstens are hale and
hearty, neither having been sick a
day. He is 71 years old, while she
is five years his senior.
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