Thanks for this posting. It is interesting to me, because my great great grandfather, who came to Peoria IL for reasons unknown to me, was a son of a Gertrude DAUM (maiden name). This may be a clue as to why he wound up in Peoria. I had never looked in Peoria for anyone named DAUM, never thought to look actually. Gertrude DAUM resided in the Eifel area in Germany, in what is now part of Rheinland-Pfalz. At the time my G-G-grandfather emigrated the area belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia. Would you have any idea of where August DAUM might have come from? I just pulled out my Peoria phone directory and there are 8 listings under the name of DAUM. HMMMMM!! And i just today returned to Denver from Peoria. I may have some other investigating to do! Bill in Denver