This collection of letters centers on the Hinrichs family, originally from the Aurich region of Hannover, who immigrated to Missouri in the 1850s. The collection is drawn from the Oliver Latimer Papers,...

Individuals mentioned in the Hinrichs Family Letters

Carl Hermann Crede immigrated to Missouri from Cassel, Hesse, in 1853 with his brother Wilhelm. He joined the household of his maternal grandmother, Margarete Versen Schroeder Classen, who had immigrated...

Individuals mentioned in the Ziegenhagen Family Letters. Franz (or Frank) Ziegenhagen, born in 1825, married Regina Riemer in 1848 in Damnitz, Kreis Schlochau, West Prussia. They had five children who...

The Grupe Family Letters is a collection of 22 letters mostly sent to immigrant Marie Franziska Elisabeth Grupe (1825–1923) between 1898 and 1919. Marie Grupe was born in 1825 in Hamburg, Germany, and...

The group of letters shared here is a small portion of the Dobberpuhl-Krueger Family Collection, a rich archive held by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies documenting five generations...

The group of letters shared here is a small portion of the Dobberpuhl-Krueger Family Collection, a rich archive held by the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies documenting five generations of...