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HH>DETLEF>HERMAN - We had sent this to the Port Townsend, WA Historical Society earlier to see if this lovely "victorian" house still stands. No initial identification was made in 2006. In 2008, Carlos Schlottfeldt, of Brazil, discovered a record of Herman Henry's first "livestock tax" from the Jefferson County paper, Aug. 11, 1905. It is in Wash.Univ.archives. Fay re-sent the article plus photo and Voila!, it is still standing. Known as the "F.C.Harper House", it is in the Nat'l Record of Historic Places, per Marsha Moratti, Archivist, in Port Townsend. Herman was the son of 1856 German immigrant to Scott County, Iowa, DETLEF Schlotfeldt. Herman was active, with brothers, in the formation of the Roslyn meat market and Roslyn Brewery in the late 1800s. Photo is from descendants, Ron & Dorothy Pietscher of Iowa. Dorothy is linked from Herman's wife's family (Helble). Wife EMMa and daughter are in the photo, as is their dog. If anyone knows the current resident, we will be glad to send them a copy of this photo and the 1905 news article. Home is at 502 Reed St., Port Townsend, WA. See it on "Google Earth".
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