Use the above window to search all fields. Otherwise, search individual fields below.
Please note: In many of the bibliographic records, MKI has not used umlauts (ä, ö, ü) or the letter ß. Try searching both for umlauts and for ae, oe, or ue, and ss.
| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Buschbauer, Hans |
| Title, Analytic | Aus dem Leben eines alten Settlers |
| Journal Title | Germania Kalender [fuer das Jahr 1884] |
| Date of Publication | [1883] |
| Volume ID | [4] |
| Location in Work | 87-99, ill. |
| Abstract | Describes the experiences of an early German settler coming to the Midwest. "Der Einwanderer unserer Tage erreicht mit Windesschnelle das Ziel seiner Reise. Das schnaubende Dampfross bringt ihn in kuerzester Frist in die entferntest gelegene Gegend, in der er sein neues Heim gruenden will. Eisenbahnen, Dampfschiffe, Telegraphendraehte, Posten u. s. w. halten ihn in ununterbrochener Verbindung mit der Aussenwelt. Ganz anders lagen die Dinge zur Zeit unserer alten Settler. Nicht selten nahm die Reise von 'vorn im Lande,' (so nannte man damals des Osten) nach der zur neuen Heimath auserkorenen Gegend des fernen Westens fast eben so viel Zeit in Anspruch als die Fahrt ueber den Ozean. Oft brauchte man eine ganze Reihe von Wochen zur Reise von New York nach Chicago oder Milwaukee, die damals wohl schon aus purer 'Dickthuerei' auf den Namen von Staedten Anspruch machten, ihrem ganzen Wesen nach aber vielmehr zur Classe der Doerfer gehoerten." |
| Notes | On title page: Verlag von Geo. Brumder, Milwaukee, Wis. On t.p. verso: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1883, by Geo. Brumder. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. --- Francis A. Hoffman (1822-1903), was born in Herford, Kreis Minden, Westphalia, and fled the Prussian draft in 1840. He settled in Illinois where he was a teacher and Lutheran minister. In 1851 he moved to Chicago and became an attorney and banker on behalf of German immigrants. He was instrumental in leading German-American voters away from the Democrats and helping to found the Illinois Republican Party in 1854, over the issue of slavery. Elected Lt. Governor in 1860, he largely ran the state in the governor's absence through the Civil War, opposing the Copperhead movement that sympathized with the South. In 1875 he retired to a farm outside Jefferson, in the Wisconsin county of the same name, and devoted his time to writing articles on farming and horticulture for the German language press under the name Hans Buschbauer. |
| Call Number | PIA WI [Milwaukee, Wis.: Brumder] |
| MKI Terms | PIA/ Immigrants, German/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ 19th century |