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Bachelor Brothers: George Anton and Heinrich Buhler, down by the river.
George Anton Buhler was born 16 March 1874. Heinrich Buhler was born 6 February 1867. The brothers were born in Algiers, Louisiana on the Mississippi River opposite New Orleans. George and Henry were the sons of Peter Anton Buhler and Gertrude Schmidt. Their given names are the first appearance in the Buhler family. Their nephew, George Henry…
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George Lawrence Buhler; Artisan
George Lawrence Buhler was born in 1921. George’s father was a baker; his grandfather, great-grandfather and gg-grandfather were all shoemakers. They worked in skilled trades making things by hand. They were artisans. George’s early school and career training and life-long profession was in bookkeeping and accounting. With a large family to support, George supplemented his…
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Sankt Johannes Der Taeufer
Altkrautheim, situated on the Jagst River, was part of Württemberg. Altkrautheim first appears in records in the 11th century. Sankt Johannes Der Taeufer (St. John the Baptist) is the Catholic church in Altkrautheim. The cornerstone of the church bears an inscription with the year 1322. The history of early Bühler ancestors comes from the church…
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The Lusignan Family
George Henry Buhler (1888-1962), the grandson of Peter Anton Buhler, married Florence Lusignan in 1919. The apparent immigrant ancestor of the Lusignan family is Etienne Lusignan. Etienne, a native of Bergerac, Dept. of Dordogne in France, married Modeste Clairteau on Sep 14, 1829. (Archdiocese of New Orleans, Sacramental Records, Volume 18, 1828-1829, page 257) In the…
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George Lawrence Buhler, Civilian Conservation Corps Service
George Lawrence Buhler graduated from St. Aloysius High School in June 1938 at the age of seventeen. The Great Depression had started with the stock market crash in 1929 and wouldn’t end until 1941 when industrial output ramped up for World War II. At its peak in 1933 unemployment was at 25%. In 1938 George’s father…