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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...

I have two data sources to share that provide a cross-section of the occupations Daflers have had across some discrete periods of time....

One of the family trends that Johann Wolfgang and Rosanna Catherine Dörfler immediately diverted from in America was the practice of...

Has our family always been known for staying on the right side of the law? For the most part, the answer is yes. Like many immigrant...

The Dafler Family Tree takes a simple form: a husband and wife at the top, and several generations of Daflers succeeded them. But were...

Today marks what would have been my grandmother’s 100th birthday, and I think it’s a fitting anniversary to memorialize as we start this...

One of the most basic and solid facts we know about Johann Wolfgang Dorfler, our Dafler forebear, is his original home: Bayreuth - or...

As a kid, I often asked my father and my grandmother about where our family came from. Over the years I took those pieces of stories and...