John Kauffman, Model Builder and Painter

By Bill Lenox
Published on May 1, 1976
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John Kauffman lettering the Elizabethtown Fire Company ladder truck in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. [See story JOHN KAUFFMAN-MODEL BUILDER AND PAINTER]. Courtesy of picture, Mrs. James H. Shank, 414 Snyder Avenue, Elizabethtown, Pa. 17022.
John Kauffman lettering the Elizabethtown Fire Company ladder truck in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. [See story JOHN KAUFFMAN-MODEL BUILDER AND PAINTER]. Courtesy of picture, Mrs. James H. Shank, 414 Snyder Avenue, Elizabethtown, Pa. 17022.
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John Kauffman and Dave Dufton, Frick Company official, in Philadelphia, looking at model which Kauffman made for the company. [See story JOHN KAUFFMAN-MODEL BUILDER AND PAINTER]. Courtesy of picture, Mrs. James H. Shank, 414 Snyder Avenue, Elizabethtown,
John Kauffman and Dave Dufton, Frick Company official, in Philadelphia, looking at model which Kauffman made for the company. [See story JOHN KAUFFMAN-MODEL BUILDER AND PAINTER]. Courtesy of picture, Mrs. James H. Shank, 414 Snyder Avenue, Elizabethtown,

Elizabethtown, Pa.

Harvey Hoffman of Rheems, Pa., a spry 88, remembers his old
friend John Kauffman as a man of many talents. On a living room
wall of Harvey’s home hangs a picture of a steam engine,
painted by John. A remark about the picture sets off a string of
reminisces … of boyhood days at Milton Grove, of threshing rigs

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