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Julius Strandberg And "The Almost White Child", Hans J. Strandberg
Julius Strandberg And "The Almost White Child", Hans J. Strandberg
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Why did more than 50 million people leave Europe for the United States in the second part of the 19th century? To understand the largest migration in history you have to look to the hopelessly poor living conditions which many people in the Old World lived under. To people living in an overpopulated and underpaid. Europe the idea of going to America where nothing was impossible but where "everything" was possible was immensely attractive.
Christian Madsen- A Dane In The "Wild West", Sybil D. Needham
Christian Madsen- A Dane In The "Wild West", Sybil D. Needham
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I never tire of hearing stories about Danish immigrants coming to America in the 1800' s. Their courage fills me with admiration because few of them would ever see their homeland or families again. My own great-grandparents Jens and Kristine Bagge arrived in June of 1863. Kristine died a few years later leaving five small children behind. We know she was lonely for Denmark.
As You Bend The Twig, So Grows The Tree, Borge M. Christensen
As You Bend The Twig, So Grows The Tree, Borge M. Christensen
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"Left to go to America," teacher Johannes Frederik
Christensen wrote opposite Sophie Pauline Christine
Pedersen in the June, 1884 Kindertofte village school's attendance
and examination class register. For Sophie, daughter of
laborer P. Christian Pedersen, as for the other 1,261 emigrants
under sixteen that left Denmark in 1884 with their families,1
her first meeting with education would greatly contribute to
any success in the new country. The Danish school system
and the village teacher would cast long shadows.
Book Review, Rit S. Wengel
Back Matter, Visti Favrholt
A Family Sketchbook, Eva M. Johnson
A Family Sketchbook, Eva M. Johnson
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Father, Otto Christensen, was born in 1875 on a farm
that lay on the edge of the North Sea in Jutland, Denmark.
When he was four his mother died and his father remarried.
He spent his childhood tending sheep and cattle and playing
in the sand dunes and heather along the sea. He must have
spent much time dreaming his dreams.