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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Mayer, Friedrich |
| Title, Analytic | Aus den Erlebnissen eines Achtundvierzigers in Amerika |
| Journal Title | Deutsch-Amerikanischer Jugendfreund |
| Date of Publication | Januar 1914 |
| Volume ID | 25 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 8-10, 12 |
| Abstract | Begins: "Ich kam als junger Pfarrer nach Jackson [Michigan]. Mein Gemeindlein war recht klein, es galt neue Glieder herbeizuziehen." Mentions the presidential election of 1896; Mayer heard Theodore Roosevelt and Karl Schurz speak Recounting a conversation with a man from his home village, we learn about that man's Civil War service and how he was present at the execution of the four alleged co-conspirators of John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln's assassin. |
| Notes | German-American author |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Forty-eighters/ Autobiography/ Immigrants, German/ Personal narratives/ Slavery/ Civil war, 1861-1865/ German Americans -- Michigan |