Robert Curfman Papers

Robert Joseph Curfman was born August 27, 1920 in Maryville, Nodaway, Missouri and died October 13, 2004 in Denver, Colorado. He was the son of Roy J. Curfman (1881 - 1967) and Edith Emily Curfman (1888 -). Robert had one brother John Curfman (1925 -).

Robert Curfman was a graduate of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in Oberlin, Ohio (1943), where he received a Degree in Music. Curfman went on to study at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado (1952) and Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1964). From the latter he obtained a Masters Degree in Music Composition and Musicology. He worked for Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas as a Music and Fine Arts Instructor from 1953-1955. He then went to work for the Office of the City Clerk in Fort Collins, Colorado as an indexer, filer, and typist from 1958-1959. From 1971-1979, he worked as a professional genealogist and researcher. During that period, Curfman authored three books: "Curfman-Kurfman-Corfman-Korffmann Genealogy" (1971), "Petty-Pettis Genealogy: Descendants of John Petty of Springfield, Massachusetts 1688" (1974), and "The Paddock Genealogy: Descendants of Robert Paddock, of Plymouth Colony, Blacksmith and Constable 1646" (1977).