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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Zimmer von Ulbersdorf, Gustav Adolf |
| Title, Monographic | Fern in Wisconsin. Auf der Hickoryfarm. Zwei Erzaehlungen |
| Place of Publication | Konstanz |
| Publisher | Carl Hirsch |
| Date of Publication | ©1924 |
| Extent of Work | 175 pages ; 18 cm |
| Abstract | First story begins: "Fern in Wisconsin, in Menomonee Valley -- einem breiten fruchtbaren Tale jenes grossen, meist von Deutschen und deren Nachkommen besiedelten Staates der nordamerikanischen Union -- lebte vor etlichen Jahren ein jungerer deutscher Farmer, namens Ebert Zurhaag." Dedication to "Auf der Hickoryfarm": Allen die Farmarbeit liebenden Soehnen und Toechtern in den deutschen Landgemeinden Amerikas ist diese Erzaehlung freundlichst gewidmet. Story begins: "In der stillen, von frischer Landluft durchwehten Village Milton in Wisconsin ist dieses Buechlein im Sommer 1917 geschrieben worden. Es enthaelt eine recht einfache, von kraeftigem Erdgeruch und warmer Heimatsehnsucht durchwobene schlichte Erzaehlung. Dass sie freiweg aus dem Leben und Treiben unserer Deutsch-Amerikaner herausgegriffen ist, ohne Ziererei oder Schoenfaerberei in Hinsicht auf die bestehenden Zustaende, das wird jeder Einsichtige bald merken." |
| Notes | Two copies. Title on cover: Fern aus Wisconsin. Erzaehlungen von Zimmer von Ulbersdorf. Advertisement on last page for Das Pfarrhaus in Missouri (Zimmer von Ulbersdorf), Die Pfarrgemeinde Melnore (G.W. Lose), and Der Waldpfarrer am Schohari. Kulturhistorische Bilder aus dem deutsch-amerikanischen Leben (Friedr. Mayer). Copy 1 donated by Arthur and Emily Rautman, Aug. 1997; inscribed Louis Rautmann. Copy 2 inscribed "To Great Grandma from Arden" and signed on title page, "Mrs. Augusta Graper, Clintonville Wis." Repaired by UW-GLS Conservation Lab, 2019. |
| MKI Annotation | From: http://www.struckmeyer-family.com/histories/gustav_zimmer.htm: Rev. Gustav Adolf Zimmer was born in the village of Kraschen, Kreis Guhrau (Guhrau County), Provinz Schlesien (the Province of Silesia), Königreich Preußen (the Kindom of Prussia) on December 22, 1869. . . [He] left Germany on August 26, 1900, and arrived in the U.S. on September 7, 1900, at age 30. . . . Gustav traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, and enrolled at Eden Theological Seminary in nearby Wellston, Missouri. . . . [He] graduated from Eden Theological Seminary in 1902 . . . [and] was sent to Salt Lake City in June, 1902, as one of the first Protestant missionaries to the Mormon residents of Utah. On August 13, 1902, Gustav Adolf Zimmer married Anna Augusta Sagner in Denver, Colorado. Anna was born on November 26, 1868 in the small town of Meseritz, located in Provinz Posen in Königreich Preußen. Anna emigrated to America with her mother in 1885, and was a dressmaker in St. Louis when she presumably met Gustav Zimmer. Later, after leaving Utah and spending time in Missouri and Wisconsin, the Zimmers moved to Ontario, Canada. Anna Zimmer died in Pembroke, Ontario, on July 8, 1921. Around 1922, Gustav returned to Wisconsin, serving as pastor at churches in Schofield and Wausau, and later Brodhead, while also becoming a chiropractor/osteopath. He later returned to Pembroke to establish a business as a chiropractor/osteopath, and then, in 1927, returned to Germany. Gustav Adolf Zimmer died at age 69 at 7:30 AM on December 17, 1939 in the town of Limbach, Freistaat Sachsen (Saxony). |
| Call Number | MKI PT 2653 .I54 F4 1924 |
| MKI Terms | PIA/ Fiction/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Farm life |