Emil Adolph Loeffler was born in Texas on 8 February 1881 to Paul Loeffler and Mina Neffenorf. Little Emil grew up in Hilda, Mason County.
On ♦ 3 November 1895, Emil's baby sister Hulda died at the age of 1.
1898 - Emil became a member of the Methodist Church in Hilda. In the same year, the man relocated to Port Lavaca where he worked in a hotel. The young man self-taught himself bookkeeping, English, and Spanish.
In 1900, 19-year-old Emil lived with his parents and 5 siblings in Mason, TX. Mr. Paul Loeffler was a carpenter, and Emil was a day laborer (1).
In the following years, Emil spent some time in San Antonio working as a bookkeeper and night clerk at the Mahncke Hotel.
⚭ 27 December 1906, Emil married Miss Emma Ruth Spicer (2) who also had lived in San Antonio, working at the telephone company. Miss Spicer was born on 5 November 1877, in Brighton England to John Spicer and Ruth Nelson. The family came to Kerr County, TX in 1879.
Clipping source: The Daily Express. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 363, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 29, 1906, newspaper, December 29, 1906; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth440978/: accessed July 3, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.
1907 - Emil and Emma moved to Junction, Kimble, TX and Emil took up a position at A J Hamer Company.
In the same year, on ♦ 1 October, the couple's first son Louis Athol was born.
♦ 3 February 1910, their second son Reuben Spicer was born.
January 1911
A few months later, on 31 April, a census clerk recorded Emil and his family in Junction, Justin Precinct #1. Emil's profession was given as a bookkeeper then (3).
1911, Mr. Emil Loeffler was a co-founder of the Junction Hardware Company. The next year, brought another enterprise which Emil was part of. The Loeffler Motor Company (Ford agency) came into being. Emil Loeffler was president and general manager of both businesses.
1914 - E. Loeffler was one of the organizers of the local Chamber of Commerce and was its president as well.
1916, the First National Bank was opened in Junction. Mr. E. Loeffler was its president.
♦ 1 May 1917 - Paul Friedrich Loeffler, Emil's father, died in Mason.
12 September 1918, Military Draft Registration took place (4).
.jpg)
On ♦ 8 October 1918, Emil's brother Max Theodore died of pneumonia at the age of 35 (5).
3 January 1920, Emil was recorded as a boarder at Mr. Joe Fritz's place, Justice Precinct #1, Kimble County (6).
Later, it was Reuben Spicer Loeffler who graduated as valedictorian from Alpine High School.
1926, together with a business associate, Emil built a hotel in Junction.
1928, Mr. Loeffler was involved in the works of the local Rotary Club (being its charter member). Later, was elected its president and also worked as a school trustee.
♦ 26 November 1928 - Emil's mother Mina Loeffler passed.
1930 census - Emil Loeffler (age 49), Emma (age 52), Louis A (age 22), Reuben S (age 20) lived in Junction. Emil's profession appears in the record as manager of a Hardware Store. Louis worked as a bookkeeper at the store (7).
1931/33 - Emil Loeffler was elected mayor of Junction.
♦ 26 August 1932 - Emma, Emil's wife, died of pneumonia.
⚭ 2 June 1932 - 22-year-old Reuben married 16-year-old Miss Jewel Riley in Eddy, New Mexico (8).
⚭ Louis married Kate Ellen Lewis in the same year.
1935 - Mr. Loeffler was on the board of directors of the Junction National Bank which was opened that year.
♦ 18 November 1938 - another sibling of Emil, his sister Emma Christina Standtke, died in Art.
1940 - the census record shows that Emil's sister Selma had lived in his household as well (9).
1947 - Emil Loeffler retired after an active professional career and 35 years of serving as president of the hardware store and the Motor Company. At his retirement, Mr. Loeffler divided his business shares between his brothers Robert and Alvin William (who had been Emil's associates), and the two sons Reuben and Louis.
18 April 1950 - census again. Emil (age 69) was then a roomer (since 1949) at the place of Mr. Coke R Stevenson, a rancher in Kimble County (10).♦ 24 July 1953 - Selma Loeffler, Emil's sister, died (11).
♦ 17 June 1956 - another sister of Emil's, 84-year-old Lina Rosa Kothmann passed away in Mason County (12).
♦ 14 June 1962 - Emil Loeffler came to the end of his life journey. He passed away in the Junction Kimble Hospital (13) and then was buried in Junction Cemetery.
Read about Emil's parents here.
Sources:
- "Families of Kimble County" Volume II 1998, Kimble County Historical Commission, South Llano Printing Company, Junction, Texas
- Findagrave.com
1. "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3P2-V5T : 14 January 2022), Emil Loefler in entry for Paul Loefler, 1900.
2. "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLMM-5Z62 : 28 November 2018), Emil A Loeffler and Emma R Spicer, 27 Dec 1906; citing Kerr, Texas, United States, county courthouses, Texas; FHL microfilm .
3. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M23R-32C : accessed 27 June 2023), Emil A Loeffler, Justice Precinct 1, Kimble, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 148, sheet 4A, family 70, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1570; FHL microfilm 1,375,583.
4. "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZXV-P3L : 23 December 2021), Emil Adolph Loeffler, 1917-1918.
"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZXV-P3L : 23 December 2021), Emil Adolph Loeffler, 1917-1918.
6. "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3ZB-WR4 : 5 April 2023), Max Theodore Loeffler, 1918.
"United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCSC-76M : 3 February 2021), Emil A Loefler, 1920.
7. "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CSP5-DPZ : accessed 30 June 2023), Emil A Lorffler, Junction, Kimble, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 11B, line 51, family 255, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2367; FHL microfilm 2,342,101.
8. "United States Western States Marriage Index", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZFC-YV4 : 19 October 2018), Reuben S. Loeffler and Jewel Riley, 1932.
9. "United States Census, 1940", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:KW2N-BMC : Sat Jun 10 00:11:46 UTC 2023), Entry for Emil A Loeffler and Selma Loeffler, 1940.
10. "United States 1950 Census", database, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:6XP9-RY2V : Mon Jan 30 01:11:34 UTC 2023), Entry for Earl G Hill and Minnie B Hill, 18 April 1950.
11. "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K377-72P: 6 April 2023), Selma Loeffler, 1953.
12. "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3QN-5MZ: 6 April 2023), Lina Rose Kothmann, 1956.
13. "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KSBZ-FQ8: 5 April 2023), Emil Adolf Loeffler, 1962.
Photos: July/August 2020
No comments:
Post a Comment