The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 38, September 19, 2004, Article 13

THE SEARCH FOR DURFEE

  Regarding the search for information on G. W. Durfee, Ron
  Haller-Williams writes: "I can't help feeling that Dick may be
  taking too narrow an approach in his reply to the query.  It is
  perhaps unlikely that engravings on prize cups and medals, also
  plates for general printing of pictures and even for postage
  stamps would only have been done by "she_is_now at yahoo.com".

  There is some family tree info worth investigating at
  1. Family Tree
  "George Washington Durfee-[1896] 1 was born on 27 Apr
    1777 in Tiverton, Newport County, RI and died in 1824 in
    Belpre,  Washington County, OH.
    User ID:1896    Source [1] = Charles DURFEE"
   There are then some notes on census and other sources.
   The web page places him in context of the family he was from,
   and he is person #21 listed there.   No occupation shown there.
   May be too early, but he did have a son George ...
  2. More Information
   and
More...
   "In July 1893, Berryman [a cartoonist] married Kate Geddes,
   the daughter of engraver George Washington Durfee."
   3. and more proves
   my point, listing a PHOTO-engraver (Frederick J. Danis, 1904
   -1996) who had attended DURFEE High School!
  4. http://teachers.lakeviewchristian.net/anthony/Anthony_Family.htm
   Page now missing, search-engine extract is intriguing:
    "... Took over the English mint and was chief engraver and
    master of weights and scales during the Tudor period  ...  other
    relatives did. He married a Hope Durfee. Children: Abraham
    -1715 ..."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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