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KIEFER, Daniel  (1841-1897) German-American diesinker,
          toolmaker, letter cutter, Waterbury.

            Born Guldorf, Wurtemberg, Germany, 15 December 1841.
            Family came to America 1854, first to New York. Learned
            diesinking, engraving beginning age fifteen. Joined New
            York Volunteers in Civil War, discharged 1863 and came
            to Waterbury, Connecticut, 18 October 1863. Built business
            (and also worked for Lane Manufacturing Co). Kiefer sold
            his diesinking business to Charles Reinsch, an employee, in
            1893, and returned full time to Lane Manufacturing Co, then
            American Ring Co. (Reinsch was in business for only two
            years before he died, the business acquired by Joseph Stumpp
            who died six years later.)

            Only one button die can be directly attributed to this diesinker,
            all others unattributed.

            Kiefer died Waterbury, Connecticut, 18 February 1897.

          B  U  T  T  O  N  S

1890ca Milwaukee City Fire Department Buttons. . . . .

          A  R  C  H  I  V  E  S

Mss {1893+} Scovill Die Journal, City of Milwaukee F.D. Coat & Vest dies (page 44).
            Scovill Archives, Baker Library, Harvard.

          B I O G R A P H I C A L  R E F E R E N C E S

101 {1896} Anderson (Joseph)  The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the
          Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-five.  New Haven: Price Lee Co. 1896.  2:1224-1225.
"There has been no scholar better qualified to create 'the American Forrer' than Dick Johnson."
-Cornelius C. Vermule III, Curator Emeritus
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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