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American Irish Newsletter - June 1993, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

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Swiss-American Newsletter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert

Swiss American Historical Society Review

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Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf

Swiss American Historical Society Review

My life's main line of work has been as an industrial maintenance electrician, though in early years I tried my hand as blacksmith's helper, arc and acetylene welder, coal mine laborer, lumber jack, farm hand, fruit picker, and other miscellaneous work. But it was as a trained electrician that I got my greatest joy in working especially in training men in my line of work. In my old years now, I have given much thought to what have been some very challenging jobs I had encountered as I struggled onward in this best of all possible. worlds, and these are· …

American Irish Newsletter - May 1993, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - April 1993, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - March 1993, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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American Irish Newsletter - February 1993, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Our American Cousins, Alexandre Carron, Christophe Carron

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In the article which follows, Alexandre and Christophe Carron, uncle and nephew, of Fully, Canton Valais, tell of their own adventure in discovering and writing about the Valaisans' immigration to North an~ South America. They have published two books, with a third under way, under the series title, Our American Cousins (Sierre, Switzerland: Edition Monographic).

Volume I (1986) presents the problem of the Valaisan emigration of the nineteenth century. It describes diverse expeditions to Algeria and Argentina, in addition to the founding and history of the V alaisan colony of San Jose in Argentina. Volume Il (1991) covers the colonization …

Valaisans All, Gordon Chapman

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Like seeds blown on winds of change.

These trees are evidence,

People, ideas, some piece of the ancient soul

Of this place, this valley, this passageway

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Prefatory Note, Jane Adèle Roberts Chapman

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The theme of this issue of the Review is the 19th Century SAHS emigration from Canton Valais of Switzerland to the United States. All the materials in the issue were written by Valaisans or by American descendants of Valaisan immigrants. My own article, "Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration to the United States," developed from · a desire to understand the experience of my great-great grandparents who left the canton in 1854. Their final destination, according to the ship's manifest, was Mishicot, Wisconsin.

Profiles Of Immigration, Jane Adèle Chapman

Swiss American Historical Society Review

There is a story to tell for every Valaisan immigrant of the 19th century, but only a few can be presented below. These profiles were written by Swiss Valaisans, by American immigrants, or their descendants. They vary greatly as to source and level of detail. But even the simplest account of the facts of departure and travel reveal the enormity of the steps these immigrants took and the effect it would have on them and the generations to come..

Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration To The United States, Jane Adèle Chapman

Swiss American Historical Society Review

In writing this paper I have had before me a mental picture of a young couple who left Martigny-Bourg in bas-Valais in the summer of 1854. They sailed from Le Havre with their small son on the new American ship Brother Jonathan to the Port of New York and continued overland to Wisconsin. The study of Valaisan emigration, of which this paper is a part, is my attempt to put this rather blurry mental picture in focus.

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American Irish Newsletter - January 1993, American Ireland Education Foundation - Pec

American Irish Newsletter

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Ane Kirstine Jorgensen/ Bollesen, Dagmar Hoiberg

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This is the tale of a courageous pioneer woman who with her husband Rasmus Jorgensen and daughters Caroline and Mette emigrated from Denmark in 1882, ultimately settling in Tyler, Minnesota. In her later years, she told the story in Danish to her granddaughter, Dagmar B. Hoiberg (Mette's daughter), who subsequently translated it for relatives and possible publication.

Emigration From Denmark To America: Diary Of Marius Larsen, Marius Larsen

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The hour of departure falls on this day, a busy one for me. I have made good use of Christen Knudsen, my travel companion, in tieing up and transporting my baggage. "Cimbria" got under way at precisely eight o'clock, a large crowd on the dock waving farewell. Many of them were our friends and relatives. My parents came on board with us and there said their sad goodbyes. It hurts me to leave them; I hope for their sake, and for ours, that our future will develop in such a way as to make them happy that we left. We …

Kai Eduard Rasmussen: A Danish American Hero, Val Hempel

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Over the years, ever since immigration to the United States began, hundreds and thousands of Danes have crossed the Atlantic to begin new lives, to work, to settle and to become Americans. The vast majority of them have helped strengthen and build their adopted land, enrich its culture and add durable strands to that multicolored fabric that is America. Many stepped lightly and left few tracks while others broke bold new trails. A few fashioned memorable evidences of their journeys. Names such as Peter Lassen, Jacob Riis, William S. Knudsen, Jean Hersholdt, Victor Borge and others are known to millions. …

Danevang: The Co-Operative Danish Capital Of Texas, Cecilia Jensen Bell

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In 1894, J. C. Evers, an approved representative of the land committee (Landudvalg) of the Danish People's Society (Dansk Folkessamfund) stood observing the vast prairie of Wharton County, Texas. Within his heart he held a dream which was seeded, grew, blossomed and continued to bear fruit. Named the Danish capital of Texas in 1990, Danevang is the harvest of the first settlers of the colony.

Anton Gravesen - Immigrant's Way, Anton Gravesen

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Anton Gravesen (1870-1952) became a well-respected merchant in Tyler, Minnesota, and banker in Askov, Minnesota. This autobiographical excerpt, provided by his daughter, Dagmar Gravesen, first records his experiences as a young immigrant and then describes his fast rise as a successful businessman. It ends with his philosophical acceptance of his losses during the Great Depression. Gravesen was born on a small farm on the Jutland heath. The death of his mother when he was 10 made him selfreliant and industrious. He not only worked for his father but also hired out to neighbors and his uncles as a sheep and …

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