David Hasenwich

1. Alternate Birth Name: Hansenwick
2. Foster Name: David L.
3. Foster Family: Martin Joseph and Elizabeth G. Schafer
4. Location of Family: Auburn, NE
5. Sending Organization: Children's Aid Society
6. Arrival Place: Auburn, NE
7. Age on Arrival: 4
8. Date of Birth: 1910-10-11, New York City, NY
9. Date of Death: 2004-03-19, Lincoln, NE
10. Gender: male
11. Spouse Name: Blanche Schafer
12. Notes: When he was about 15 years old, Schafer returned to New York, where he visited the Children's Aid Society and began working on the Society's farm near Valhalla, NY. He stayed there for a year before returning to Nebraska. In 1914, the Schafer family moved to Bethany, NE. David graduated from Bethany High School and later attended the University of Nebraska and Lincoln Barber College. He worked as a barber in Burchard, NE, until becoming a letter carrier for the U.S. Post Office, from which he retired in 1970.
13. Source: David Schafer obituary, Lincoln Journal Star (NE), 21 March 2004; 1920 United States Federal Census; Nemaha County Herald (Auburn, NE), 5 February 1915; George Round, "Remember When?" newspaper column, September 1983.