Conrad Voelcker was born in Edenkoben, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1881, when he was nineteen years old.[9]:37 He established a printing business and German language newspaper, Der Pfälzer in Amerika, in 1884.[9]:52 After living in Manhattan, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, Conrad eventually moved to the Murray Hill area of Flushing, Queens, where he purchased a house.