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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Eickhoff, Anton |
| Title, Monographic | In der neuen Heimath. Geschichtliche Mittheilungen ueber die deutschen Einwanderer in allen Theilen der Union |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Publisher | Steiger |
| Date of Publication | 1884 |
| Extent of Work | vii, 398, 164 pp. |
| View Online | https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007373870 |
| Contents | Die Deutschen in New York -- Die Deutschen in New Jersey and Neu-England -- Die Deutschen in Pennsylvanien -- Die Deutschen in Maryland und Virginien -- Die Deutschen in den Carolinas -- Die Salzburger in Georgia -- Die Deutschen in Kentucky -- Die Deutschen in Ohio und Indiana -- Die Deutschen in unteren Mississippi-Thale und in Texas -- Die Deutschen im mittleren Mississippi-Thale -- Die Deutschen im oberen Mississippi -Thale -- Die Deutschen in Wisconsin und Michigan -- Die Deutschen in den westlichen Hochlandgebieten -- Die Deutschen in den Pacific-Staaten -- Schweizer Einwanderung und Ansiedlungen -- Anhang. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft der Stadt New York -- Noten. |
| Notes | Anhang: Die Deutsche Gesellschaft der Stadt New York. Inscribed: Th. Heinrich, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| MKI Annotation | From Wikipedia: Gerhard Anton (Anthony) Eickhoff (September 11, 1827 -- November 5, 1901) was a German-American journalist, editor, author, lawyer, United States Congress representative of New York City, United States Treasury auditor and New York City Fire Commissioner. He emigrated on October 24, 1847 and arrived in New Orleans on January 6, 1848. His first employment was as deckhand on a Mississippi steamboat, later he became a teacher in a Jesuit school in St. Louis and studied law. Early he began to work as journalist, founder and editor of several German newspapers. In St. Louis, Missouri he was founder and editor of St. Louis Zeitung (1848-1849). In Dubuque, Iowa he edited Der Nordwestliche Demokrat, later named Iowa Staatszeitung, from 1849 to 1850. In Louisville, Kentucky it was Der Beobachter am Ohio, edited 1850-1852. Settling in New York City he edited Die Abendpost in 1852 and New Yorker Staatszeitung und Herold from 1854 to 1856. He became naturalized in 1855 and practiced law. He is the author of a book about German Immigration to the United States in the German language: In der Neuen Heimath, edited in 1884 for Deutsche Gesellschaft der Stadt New York / German Society of the City of New York, founded 1784, published to celebrate the centennial of the society. Anthony Eickhof died in New York City in 1901 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery. --- STEIGER, Ernst, German-American bibliographer, born in Gastewitz, Saxony, 4 October 1832. He was trained as a bookseller, emigrated in 1855 to New York City, and in 1863 opened an independent business. He became the publisher of important works of German Americans and of language textbooks, and also a manufacturer and importer of all that belongs to the Kindergarten system. Mr. Steiger is the author of "Der Nachdruck in Nordamerika" (New York, 1860); "Das Copyright-Law in den Vereinigten Staaten" (1869) ; and "Periodical Literature," a bibliography (1873). [Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, Copyright © 2001 VirtualologyTM] --- Repaired by UW-GLS Conservation Laboratory, Aug. 2016. |
| Donated by | Jacob Martens, 2008. |
| Call Number | PIA NY |
| MKI Terms | German Americans/ United States/ History/ German Americans -- New York (state)/ Deutsche Gesellschaft der Stadt New York |