Edward Doerfel was born around 1875 in New Jersey. He was the son of Dorothea (Rehmann) and Julius Doerfel.

The 1880 census shows him living with his parents at 524 Second Street in Philadelphia.

Around 1905, he married Emma M. McCord in Palmyra, Burlington County, New Jersey.

  1. William G. Doerfel

  2. Victor L. Doerfel

In the 1910 census, the family was shown as living at 215 Henry Street in Palmyra Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. William was working in the horse collar industry. By 1920, he was working as a florist in the nursery industry.

Edward died in 1922 at the age of 47. Emma, who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland around 1879, died in August of 1981. She had become a naturalized U.S. citizen around 1930.