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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Schafer, Sue |
| Title, Monographic | Voices from the Past: John Dennis Schafer Family Letters, 1842-1898 |
| Place of Publication | [Bloomington, Ind.] |
| Publisher | Xlibris Corp. |
| Date of Publication | 2009 |
| Extent of Work | 313, [3] |
| ISBN | 978-1-4415-3970-0 |
| Abstract | Donated by Sue Schafer.Johann Dionis Schafer was born in 1821, in Witterschlick, near Bonn. He married Margaret Schumacher in 1847, and that same year the couple immigrated to America. They settled in Springfield Corners, Dane County, Wisconsin, and Dionis's two sisters came later to settle in the neighboring township of Cross Plains. After his wife died in 1852, "Dionsis was restless and unhappy, so he left Wisconsin," heading west. He eventually ended up in the Washington Territory, along the Satsop River. This book explores the life of John D. Schafer as reflected in the correspondence between him and his family in Germany and America. |
| Notes | Compiled and annotated by Sue Schafer. Translations by Yvonne Vogele. Edited by Karen Schafer and Nancy Burkhalter. |
| Call Number | MKI / WHS CT275 S342 A4 2009 |
| MKI Terms | Immigrants, German/ Letters/ Correspondence/ Farm life/ Wisconsin -- Dane County/ German Americans -- Washington/ German Americans -- Wisconsin |