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Submitted: 3/21/16 • Approved: 3/21/16 • Last Updated: 3/26/18 • R789137-G0-S3
1881 - 1949
George Walker Derfler, son of Euhart and Catherine (Novinger) Derfler, was born January 9, 1881 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He was united in marriage to Bessie Andrews, daughter of John W. and Sue Andrews, January 1, 1905.
Mr. Derfler came to Adair County with his parents in 1881 and settled near Novinger. He attended the public school at that place and in 1900 and 1901 took a course at a business college at Quincy, Illinois. For four years he was a bookkeeper for the Miller Mercantile Company at Novinger, then accepted a position with the Burk Bros. Meat and Provision Company at Kirksville, Missouri. He is also a stockholder in that company. He is Democrat in politics, and a member of the K. of P. lodge.
Violette's History of Adair County, 1911
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Parents:
Euhart Derfler (1845 - 1929)
Catherine Novinger Derfler (1846 - 1940)
Spouse:
Bessie Andrews Derfler (1880 - 1964)
Children:
Infant Daughter Derfler (1910 - 1910)
Siblings:
Morris Edwin Derfler (1872 - 1922)
Anna Elizabeth Derfler Hughes (1874 - 1941)
Harry Darlington Derfler (1877 - 1963)
George Walker Derfler (1881 - 1949)
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