The beauty of full-text searches is that it facilitates the finding of references that otherwise would take a great deal of time or simply be impractical. That’s the case with these entries for the Albers name from the 1882 Denver, Colorado, directory (from Corbett and Ballenger).
All the Albers entries are related to each other. Anna is the widowed mother of Ulfert L. Albers and L. U. and W. H. Albers are sons of Ulfert Albers. Other members of Ulfert Albers’ family (his wife and younger children) are not listed. That’s typical for city directories and not cause for any concern.
Based on the entries for the Albers family, it looked like they resided at 448 Blake and 671 Lawrence in Denver. It also appears that L. U. Albers and Company was based at 448 Blake, but L. U. Albers is actually listed as residing at 671 Lawrence. It is possible that there were living quarters above the apparent store at 448 Blake where the Alberses were apparently commission merchants (indicated by the “com mers” abbreviation).
A full text search of the directory located two of Albers’ employees: Reiner Gronewold and Christ. Haefliger. Both Gronewold and Haefliger are listed with a residence of 448 Blake.
Whether or not the employees had any relationship to the Albers family is not known at this time. The Albers family would be in Dawson County, Nebraska, later in the same decade and, as we’ve seen in other posts, another Gronewold interacted with the family in a way that was somewhat more confrontational.
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