Fiegenbaum Home
Douthit Road Farm
c.1950
Courtesy of J W Fiegenbaum family.
The old house on the Fiegenbaum farm on Douthit Road
in Higginsville, Lafayette County, Missouri, USA.
The farm was firtst owned by Martin and Clara (Drewel) Fiegenbaum. Martin, and his brothers, John and Edwin, built the house with $400 worth of used lumber from Kansas City in the early to middle 1920s.
About 1935, Martin and Clara moved to the town of Higginsville, where Martin ran the Missouri Farmers Association (MFA) oil franchise.
John and Katherine (Maun) Fiegenbaum and their children moved into the house around 1936. Electricity was brought in around 1940.
In the 1950s, the house became the home of Henry and Mary Ellen (Schmutz) Fiegenbaum and their family.
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