From Memorial and Genealogical Record of Dodge and Jefferson Counties, Wisconsin, 
publ. 1894 - Page 28-31
 
D. BLUMENFELD.  The well-known editor and proprietor of the Weltburger, published 
in Watertown, was born in the ancient city of Greglingen, in the kingdom of 
Wurttemberg, Germany, February 13, 1828.  He acquired his education in the public 
schools of his native land, and in 1841, when a youth of thirteen, he entered a printing 
office in Suttgart, the capital of the kingdom of Wurttemberg, where he remained until 
February 1848, when he left that city and worked at the case as a journeyman in the cities 
of Neuwied, Dusseldorf and Schwerin.
 
Mr. BLUMENFELD was thus employed until June 1850, when he bade adieu to friends 
and Fatherland and sailed for America, landing at New York on the 15th of August.  He 
remained in that city and in Philadelphia for a few weeks, and in September of the same 
year came to Wisconsin, where he has since resided.  A few days after his arrival he 
secured employment with Kohlman Brothers, who intended to publish a German paper in 
Racine, and in October he set the first stick of German type that was ever set in that 
place.  In April 1851, he left Racine and accepted the position of foreman in the office of 
the Daily Banner and Volksfreund, at Milwaukee, published by Morritz & Schteffler, 
who were well known among all the printers in Germany, the latter having been for a 
number of years the first foreman and manager of the world-renowned printing 
establishment of Baron von Cotta in Stuttgart.
 
In September 1852, Mr. BLUMENFELD went to New York, where he married Miss 
Nancy LEWENSEN, a native of Schwerin, Germany, and in August of the following year 
he removed from Milwaukee to Watertown.  Several children were born unto them, of 
whom two are now married.  Mr. BLUMFENFELD was accompanied on his removal to 
this city by John KOPP, a pressman who worked in the same office with him in 
Schwerin, and afterward in Milwaukee.  Here the two gentlemen began the publication of 
a Democratic German weekly paper, called the Watertown Anzeiger, issuing their first 
number on the 27th of August, 1853.  Our subject has since continued in the printing 
business, and since 1859 has been sole proprietor of the Watertown Weltburger.  He has 
been a member of the school board and of the common council, and is a wide-awake and 
progressive German citizen, in whom the best interests of the community find a friend.

Submitted by:  Carol Holmbeck