David Siffring with sons, David, Rudolph and Chris
Description
A 5"x7" nitrate negative, portrait photograph of David Siffring, Rising City, Nebraska, and his three sons. They are wearing dark suits, white shirts and knotted ties. Mr. Siffring and one son are seated in wooden chairs with the other two boys standing beside them. All the boys are wearing boutonnieres. Mr. Siffring is wearing glasses.
Thorpe Opera House Foundation/Boston Studio Project
Local Accession Number
00K08810000
Source
Original format: 5"x7" nitrate negative from the Boston Studio Project collection.
Historical Notes
David F. Siffring was born in Germany and immigrated to the U.S. in 1882 at twenty years of age. He lived in Pennsylvania for a short time, then moved to Ogallala, Nebraska, where he lived with his married sister and her family. He took a 160-acre homestead south of Ogallala where he built a sod house and barn. In 1887 he traveled to Butler County, Nebraska, and met Emma Nuttelman, who lived south of Millerton. They were married in her parent's home March 6, 1890. David and Emma then returned to Ogallala via covered wagon and lived in the sod house for five years. They returned to Butler County in 1895 with their two children and rented a farm three miles south of Garrison until they were able to purchase a farm south of Rising City in 1900. David and Emma had ten children. David is pictured with his three youngest sons: David who married Elsie Holscher; Rudolph who married Ruth Fischer, and Chris who was born April 15, 1910. Chris farmed and lived on the "home farm" where he was born for over 66 years. He married Pauline Laudenschlager on March 17, 1939, and they raised three children. Following Pauline's death he married Thelma Hoffman on September 23, 1971.
