Nathan Stampfer

"In 1869 Nathan Stampfer was one of the founding members of the Cornerstone Lodge #323 of the Order of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Masonic chapters had existed in St. Louis as early as the 1840's, but for the first time a predominantly Jewish group came into being. Charter members included Moses Fraley, Jacob Furth, Joel Swope, Abraham Kramer, David Levy and Leopold Schoen. Other early members of Cornerstone Lodge were Albert S. Aloe, August Frank, Aaron Haas, Leon Helman, Nathan Stampfer, Jacob Strauss, Louis Renard, Leopold Freund and Aaron Rosenthal".

From Zion in the Valley, Volume 1, Walter Ehrlich, University of Missouri Press, 1997.

From Find-a-Grave listing:

Born in Austria in 1845 per headstone, or 1847 per death certificate, Nathan's parents were Babette/Babetta Strauss and Joseph Stampfer. Nathan arrived in the US in either 1867 or 1869 per 1910 and 1900 US Fed. censuses, respectively. He married Rosa Reitler on 21 Aug 1873 in St. Louis, Missouri. He was listed as a salesman in St. Louis, MO, in the 1880 census, but was found in the 1885 Minnesota Territorial and State Census; he is then found again in the 1900 & 1910 censuses in St. Louis, MO. He was living at 4633 Newberry Terrace, St. Louis City, MO, at his death.