Daniel B. Romberger was a son of George D. and Anna Laura Miller Romberger. His name was full of family meaning; his middle initial stood for "Beshler" which was his mother's mother's maiden name, while Daniel was the name of his great grandpa, as well as the name of his uncle, his father's brother.

Daniel was probably born in Berrysburg Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He appears on the 1900 census there in his parents' home. By 1910's census, the family has moved to Harrisburg, and probably did so around 1906.

Early in his adulthood, Daniel worked as a machinist at Harrisburg Manufacturing Boiler Company, as evidenced by his WWI draft card completed in 1918. His father had died in 1916, so his secondary contact was his mother. Both lived at 1196 Walnut Street in Harrisburg, and some of his siblings were still at home there as well. He was described on the card as having brown hair and eyes and being of medium height and build. It's not known how much longer the family lived at this address - by 1922 Harrisburg newspapers name other people as living there. A 1919 obituary for Daniel's grandma Emma is the last mention of family living there. The earliest mention was George's 1916 obituary.

Daniel is recalled by some great nieces and nephews as "Uncle Danny" who liked his liquor and was a jolly gent. A different nephew recalls that Daniel never got married, and said he was a traveling salesman who sold electric water heaters that attached to the kitchen faucet and did so well, he sold them to families who didn't have electricity. This nephew recalls Daniel having no specific girlfriends but suspected it possible he had one in every port.

Danny lived at least until 1942, as his "old man's draft" card for WWII proves. With blue eyes and brown hair, he stood 5 foot 9 inches and weighed 210 pounds. He lived at 1627 W. Columbia Avenue in Philadelphia, and listed his sister Leila with whom he lived as his "person who will always know your address." (That is the same home in which they lived for the 1940 census when Danny worked in electric novelties.) The draft card says he was then employed by A W Hoyle, 247 N. 18th in Philadelphia. On the 1940 census there is an A. W. Hoyle on North 18th, age 77, a seller of foods.

His death certificate shows us his informant was sister Leila/Lila. Since they were the last two siblings living in Philadelphia, it was then guessed she had made arrangements at the same cemetery for herself. A call to Hillside Cemetery in Roslyn showed that Daniel was there (and not the other Hillside in Montgomery County in Sounderton) and then a check of their records showed us that sister Leila is there as well.