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Oofty Goofty
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Oofty Goofty was the stage name of Leonard ("Leon") Borchardt (born April 26, 1862 in Berlin〔("Oofty-Goofty" ), January 10, 1897, ''Houston Daily Post'', p. 2
〕〔("Odd Characters in Houston (No. 4)" ), August 10, 1900, ''Houston Daily Post'', p. 8.〕), a sideshow performer, who lived in San Francisco in the late 19th century and in Houston, Texas in the early 20th century.
== Early life ==
Oofty Goofty was born Leonard Borchardt (sometimes Burkhardt) in Berlin, Germany April 26, 1862. He was Jewish. In 1900, Goofty told a Houston Daily Post reporter that he came to the United States on the SS Fresia as a stowaway in 1876, was found by the captain and made to work for three crossings to earn his passage, and was finally able to immigrate by 1878. According to Goofty, he drifted from city to city before finding himself penniless in Detroit, Michigan during a snow storm in January 27, 1883 and enlisted in the United States Army for five years. Goofty says he was placed in Company K of the First Cavalry. He was described as being 5'4" with brown eyes, black hair, and a dark complexion and stationed at the Jefferson Barracks Military Post. According to Goofty, his fellow soldiers teased him that because he was Jewish he would be the first man the Indians would scalp in a fight. Goofty says that when orders came deploying him to Washington Territory, he deserted shortly afterwards on April 9, 1883. He was apprehended the same day, and then escaped from military custody a few days later.〔U.S. Army Register of Enlistments, 1878-1884, A-G, page 151.〕〔("Odd Characters in Houston (No. 4)" ), August 10, 1900, Houston Daily Post, p. 8.〕
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