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Title Bodler Family Papers, Translation of Account Book
Date 1855-1874
Document Type Personal Account
Reference SC 241, Folder 3
Library / Archive Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Collection Name Bodler Family Papers, 1837-1874
Description Transcript of the Bodler family account book. The author hopes that the book may be of interest to anyone searching for facts about a German family carving out a farm in the forest of Pennsylvania between 1855 and 1874.
Series Description The collection provides a considerable amount of demographic information on the extended family and includes an account book, birth and marriage certificates, and a family genealogy.
Biographical Note / History August Bodler and his wife Katharine emigrated from Lindau, Bavaria, to the United States ca. 1850 with their four children. They settled in the Bergen Hill, New Jersey area. In the late 1850s the family moved to Germania, Potter County, Pennsylvania, where August took up farming.
Theme(s) Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations
Country (from) Germany
Country (to) United States of America
Places Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality German
Keywords accounts, wealth, family, agriculture, emigrants
Additional Information Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania catalogue.
Language English
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Copyright Historical Society of Pennsylvania