Joseph Stauffer

• formal_name:
• first_date: 1796
• last_date: 1807
• function: Bookseller
• locales: Virginia
• precis: Bookseller in Virginia (1796-1807), probably in the Shenandoah Valley.
• notes: Bookseller
  Virginia
  Bookseller in Virginia (1796-1807), probably in the Shenandoah Valley.
  Stauffer is unidentifiable from the imprint record alone, which provides the only record of his presence in the Virginia print trade. From 1796 to 1807, he was a Virginia retailer of Der Neue Hoch Deutsche Americanische Calender (The New High German American Almanac) issued annually from Baltimore by the bilingual publisher Samuel Sauer (1767-1820), uncle of Leesburg's Brook Watson Sower (396). The fact that this imprint was a German-language one suggests that Stauffer was a storekeeper in one of the German-speaking communities in the Shenandoah Valley, but a definitive identification requires more evidence.
  NB: Surname is spelled Sauer in German language imprints; Sower in English language ones.
  
  
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  Sources: Imprints.
  
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