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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Wild, Robert |
| Title, Analytic | Chapters in the History of the Turners |
| Journal Title | Wisconsin Magazine of History |
| Date of Publication | Dec. 1925 |
| Volume ID | 9 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 123-139 |
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| Abstract | Provides a history of the Turners in America, with a focus on Wisconsin. Includes information of the founding of the Turners by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in Europe. "Into the struggles of 1848-1849 the German Turners entered everywhere with devotion and enthusiasm, and when the disappointment and the disillusionment came at last, they went into exile. Thousands came to the United States. . . . let a few names, selected at random, suffice: Sigel and Dr. Jacobi in New York, Rapp in Philadelphia, Hecker in Cincinnati, Pfaender and Nix in New Ulm, Osterhaus and Hilgard in Belleville, Willich in Milwaukee. They and their fellows were a typical cross-section of their generation, representing . . . soldiers, poets, mechanics, business men, editors, physicians, lawyers, and skilled artisans. . . . Some of them had known Turnfather Jahn. In fact . . . I may state that his grandson and namesake was declared the adoptive son of the American Gymnastic Union, and was placed in the educational institute of John Toensfeldt of St. Louis; that subsequently, in 1885, he graduated from its normal school at Milwaukee, and that I as a boy knew him well." Lists names of prominent educators and members. Robert Wild's father "was one of the founders of the Turnverein Milwaukee." |
| Call Number | Digital file (PDF) |
| MKI Terms | Turners/ Forty-eighters/ History/ German Americans/ Societies, etc./ Medicine & Health |