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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Boudelier, Nomie//Prinz, Harvey L. |
| Title, Analytic | When a Child Led the Way to the New Country: An Unusual Immigrant Story |
| Journal Title | Infoblatt |
| Date of Publication | Summer 2004 |
| Volume ID | 9 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 10-11, ill. |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 1528-185X |
| Abstract | Christina Stapp emigrated from Goetzenhain, Hesse Darmstadt, at the age of twelve in 1854. "For six years, from 1854 to 1860, no record of Christina has been found in America, except for a letter she wrote to her father, Philip,...brothers, and sisters from Rock Island, Illinois." The letter, written in early 1860, is presented here translated into English. Her father and most of the rest of the family joined Christina in Rock Island in June of 1860. A letter from Philip to a son still in Germany is also presented in translation. That son came to Rock Island in 1864. |
| Notes | German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa; also appears in Hessischer Verein, vol. 1, no. 4, June 2006, p. 7 |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Illinois/ Rock Island (Ill.)/ Goetzenhain, Hesse, Darmstadt/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Letters/ Children/ Stapp |