This is the fourth in a series of deep-dive studies into each of the eleven children of John Wolfgang and Catherine Dafler. Wesley Webster Dafler was the most well-documented Dafler of his family of birth and achieved what could be judged as the highest level of career success. Like his brother John , he leveraged early experiences in agriculture into the experience, network, and capital for a lucrative business of his own. He also was a strong supporter of his siblings, and

This is the third in a series of deep-dive studies into each of the eleven children of John Wolfgang and Catherine Dafler. Melchior Harrison Dafler was born on January 25th, 1861, and died twenty-five months later on February 25th, 1863. He was likely born in the later Dafler farm near Houcksville, in Carroll County, Maryland, and named after a nearby neighbor . This is about all I can say with certainty about Melchior. Unlike his siblings, there are no other records that men

This is the second in a series of deep-dive studies into each of the eleven children of John Wolfgang and Catherine Dafler. This post was...

This is the first in a series of deep-dive studies into each of the eleven children of John Wolfgang and Catherine Dafler. When I first...