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- 1900 Census, T623, Roll 192, ED 1139, Sh 6A
Bloom Township, Chicago Heights, Cook County, Illinois
Vincennes Avenue, Dwelling 76, Family 92
Robert M. Tafel (Head) M July 1859 40 M 10 PA Germany PA Physician Line 48
Lizzie (Wife) F Aug 1867 33 M 10 0 0 PA PA PA Line 49
1910 Census, T624, Roll 40, ED 59, SH 13A
2nd. Precinct, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
11 Adams, Dwelling 60, Family 69
Tafel, Robert M. (Head) M 52 M1 20 PA Germany America Physician Practice Line 19
Elizabeth (Wife) F 40 M1 20 0 0 PA PA PA Line 20
Bast, Gertrude (Sister-in-law) F 21 S PA PA PA Stenographer Line 21
1920 Census, T625, Roll 48, ED 25, SH 2A
Mesa Precinct 4, Maricopa County, Arizona
48 North Robson, Visitation 28, Family 31
Tafel, Robert M. (Head) M 58 M PA Stuttgart (Ger.) US Physician (Lung) Medical Line 12
Elizabeth F. (Wife) F 48 M PA PA PA None Line 13
USGen Web/Maricopa Az. Biographies
Robert M. Tafel
Arizona, The Youngest State, 1913
Dr. Robert M. Tafel who since 1904 has been numbered among the medical practioners in Phoenix, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the 27th of July 1858. His
parents were Louis D. and Statira (Shannon) Tafel. The father, who was born in Germany followed the profession of bookkeeping as a life work. The mother, a native of
Pennsylvania was of Dutch descent, her ancestors having come to this country in 1710.
Dr. Tafel was a high school student in Pittsburgh and afterward attended the Pittsburgh Pharmaceutical College. The knowledge there gained has been of inestimable value
to him in the discharge of his professional duties. He took up the study of medicine in the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati, Ohio and in 1895 was graduated from the
Bennett Medical College of Chicago. He then located for practice in that city, where he remained until 1904--the year of his arrival in Phoenix. Here he has since
continued and in the intervening period of twelve years has made continuous progress, the steps in his orderly progression being easily discernible. His professional
duties are constantly making greater and greater demand upon his time and energies and he gives undivided allegiance to his profession, recognizing the grave
responsibilities which devolve upon the physician in his effort to check the ravages of disease, restore health and prolong life. In 1898 Dr. Tafel was married to Miss Elizabeth Bast, a native of Pittsburgh and of German lineage. They had two children, now deceased.
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1859 - 1935 (75 years)
