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Field name | Value |
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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 |
Document(s) linked to |
Bodler Family Papers, Account Book of August Bodler |
Copyright | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |