Index of A LH Lederer's In Dad's Day

1997	Preface
1946	Dedication
1850	Birth at Geradstetten
1851	Christmas Eve at Geradstetten
1852	Great Uncle Fredericks' story begins
3000BC	Noah, Japeth and Comer
58BC	Caesar at the Rhine
13BC	Suebic Tribes
+	The Birth of Christ
17-350	Warring Romans
375-600	Early Swabia
742-938	Romans, Huns and Franks
955-1015	Schwabia organizes
1198-1300	Duchey of Swabia
1331-1450	Wurtemburgs beginning
1450	Guttenburg prints
1517	Luther is aroused
1518	Christmas comes to Wurtemburg
1609	The First Lederer
1755	Some Lederers fight with France
1776	Revolution
1805	A Lederer battles at Ulm
1806	A Lederer goes to Moscow (Does not return)
1852	Great Uncle Fredericks' story ends
1853	New World Dreams
1854	Adventure of John and Rica
1855	America Bound
1856-57	Philadelphia
1858	Farm in Pennsylvania
1859-60	Abraham Lincoln
1861	Civil War
1862	Father fights for Lincoln
1864	Gettysburg and Mother
1865	Wars' end and death of Lincoln
1865	From Pennsylvania to Illinois
1866	Illinois history
1867	Lederers at Erie
1868	Grant is President
1869	Mary Brubaker
1870	Whiteside County
1871	Father farms the McCall place
1872	Father farms and votes for Grant (His first vote)
1873	Charles and Mary are married Thanksgiving Day
1874	The first baby is a boy (The Reed farm)
1875	Grandmother Lederer passes on
1876	Another baby boy
1876	First Rural Delivery
1878	The third baby is a boy
1881	Also the fourth
1881	Father sees Nebraska
1882	Bound for Nebraska
1882	A Home in the hillside (Dugout)
1882	First Settlers
1882	Norfolk village
1883	Lederer and Marks patent an idea
1883	Norfolk celebrates the 4th
1884	Log house farm
1885	White sod house
1885	Our first tree is planted
1885	Early Pleasant Valley settlers
1885	Our first tornado
1885	The fifth son
1886	Goodby Soddy
1886	A new house
1887	Father the teacher
1887	A school is built
1888	The Blizzard
1888	Pierce County
1889	More trees
1890	A new Court House
1890	The seventh son
1891	Goodby old Fly
1891	Prayers
1892	An ancestor passes on
1893	Sugar beets
1894	The drought - a daughter is born
1894	Populism
1897	The schooling Lederers
1898	We defeat Spain (We killed the bear)
1899	We thresh
1900	Politics strikes us
1900	The Deputy is drawn
1901	Grandsons appear
1902	The deputy's courtship
1903	The weather man
1904	Old home to the new
1905	Lakeview
1906	Still more trees
1907	Fathers' philosophy
1909	Fathers' advice
1910	Father goes west
1911	Apple pie
1912	From farm to town
1913	Love of the land
1914	Father builds again
1916	The first reunion
1917	Another war - Another patent
1918	The Realestator
1919	Westward Ho! For Father and Mother
1920	The Bishop Place
1922	Father and Webster
1923	50th Wedding anniversary
1923	Father the poet
1925	Father the Nebraskan
1927	Father the Biographer
1928	The parents return to Norfolk
1929	The Diary
1930	Lederers of Chicago
1931	Father and humor
1932	Another Roosevelt
1933	60th Wedding anniversary - The Presidents greeting
1934	Another Drought
1935	Turkeys
1936	Poetic Lederers
1937	Cleo at Philadelphia
1938	Mother laid to rest
1939	More Lederers
1940	Another war in Europe
1940	Father writes
1941	War comes to us
1942	Mother Walker passes away
1943	Susans' death
1944	Germany invaded
1945	American Prayer
1946	His Diary ends
1946	Father rests
1946	The final page - the final year, the 96th
1946	Man Has Forever
.	Illustrations
.	Lederer Coat of Arms
.	Description of Coat of Arms

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