Diskussion:Ed Schieffelin

Schieffelin's Ahnen von Nördlingen?

• America's Successful Men of Affairs: An Encyclopedia of Contemporaneous Biography

Volume I, Charles A. Schieren, page 576
WILLIAM HENRY SCHIEFFELIN, merchant, born Aug. 20, 1836, in New York city, died in town June 21, 1895. His family traces its ancestry for seven centuries back to Norlingen, (=Nördlingen/Bayern) Germany. .... The pioneer in America, Jacob Schieffelin, sailed from Germany to Philadelphia in 1740 and returned to the fatherland, but his son, Jacob, came to Philadelphia in 1745 and remained in the new world.... usw. --StromBer (Diskussion) 15:59, 9. Feb. 2014 (CET)