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...

This collection of letters is drawn from the Eugen and Emma Klee Papers, held by the Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The bulk of the letters presented...

Individuals mentioned in the Crede Family Papers

Individuals mentioned in the Eugen Klee Papers (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) and the Eugen and Emma Klee Letters (Horner Library, Philadelphia)

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...

Correspondence sent to journalist and entrepreneur Henry Villard from his German relatives. Villard, born Heinrich Hilgard in 1835, in Speyer, was born into a wealthy family and first traveled to the United...

This collection of letters, drawn from the Eugen Klee Papers held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, includes correspondence sent between 1893 and 1911 to the choral conductor Eugen Klee, who immigrated...