August Heller was my great-great-great uncle, born sometime around 1840 in Bensheim, Hessen, Germany, to Christian Heller — who was a printer and publisher and my great-great-great grandfather — and Elizabeth Boll, my third-great grandmother. In December 1852, the family immigrated to the U.S., winding up in Philadelphia, where August learned to be a lithographer –…

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