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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Schield, Emilie Dummann |
| Title, Analytic | Pomeranian Emigration as Remembered by a Seven Year Old |
| Journal Title | Dat Pommersche Blatt |
| Date of Publication | Jan. 2006 |
| Issue ID | 47 |
| Location in Work | 4-5, 12, 15, ill. |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| Abstract | Part one of an emigration story written by Emilie Schield in 1931 and translated by her niece Lillie Radtke-Goetsch. Emilie's father, Carl Friederich August Dummann, was born in 1832 in the village of Stramehl in the district of Regenwalde. Her mother, Auguste Henrietta Louise (nee Luedtke) was born in 1834 in the village of Sellin. In 1865 a letter arrived from Ferd Boernke, a relative by marriage who was living in the Town of Maine, near Taegesville, Wisconsin. The letter asked them "to also come to America as they could soon acquire property of their own here and become independent. This they could never expect to do in Germany." Several families, including the Dummanns and their seven-year-old daughter Emilie, left in 1866 to make the journey to America. The journey and its hardships are described. After landing in Quebec, they came eventually to Milwaukee, where some of the family stayed while others continued on to Wausau, and from there to Taegesville. Part two will tell about purchasing land in the Town of Maine and establishing a homestead. |
| Notes | Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Pomeranians/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Personal narratives |