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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Title, Monographic | Letters of the Graupner Family: Transcriptions and Translations |
| Extent of Work | [241] pp., ill., and 3 compact discs |
| Abstract | Carl Paul Graupner (1908-1996) was born in a small town near Saarbruecken, Germany, known then as Spittel and today as L’Hopital, on the French side of the French-German border. A sister of his grandmother Graupner had immigrated to the USA in the 1870s and her children were living near DePere, Wisconsin. One of them, Frank Boser, had a farm and offered to sponsor a family member seeking to come to the United States after World War I. Carl and his older sister Ida left Germany from Cuxhaven in 1923. Siblings Hermann and Elsa came to the U.S. in 1925, working first on the Lemke farm in Morrison Township. Ida and Elsa later lived in Milwaukee; Ida married Willard Liepert and they took over the Liepert family farm near Boltonville, while Elsa married August Dauer and the two returned to Germany in 1928.This collection includes transcriptions and translations of a large number of letters dating from 1900 through the post-World War II Care Package years of the 1940s. The compact discs contain a life history of Carl Paul Graupner written by his son, Philip Graupner, and digital versions of audio interviews conducted with family members. A printed book version (copyright 2014, 227 pp.) donated later. |
| Notes | Donated by Philip Graupner, 2008 and 2010. |
| Call Number | FH Graupner |
| MKI Terms | Family history/ Graupner/ 20th century/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Boser/ Liepert/ Germany/ History/ Letters |