The Wuellner Family Letters represent correspondence sent to John Joseph Wuellner, who emigrated from Schwaney (near Paderborn) to the Alton, Illinois area in 1881, at the age of 19. Having apprenticed...

Individuals mentioned in the Wuellner Family Letters

The correspondence in the Weinhardt Family Letters centers on the experiences of John V. (Hans) Weinhardt, who immigrated to the United States in 1925. In 1923, Hans, then a fifteen-year-old student doing...

Letters sent to John L. Schulz (1833–1907), born Johann Lorenz Schulz, of Sappington, Missouri. Born in the Oberfranken region of Bavaria, he was largely raised in the community of Issigau. In 1853,...

The Dreyer Family Papers is a collection of 30 letters between 1860 and 1872. This collection of letters, from the Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley, is apparently associated with...

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...

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...

This collection contains letters sent to Sophie Sosnowski, who was born at Pforzheim, Baden in 1809. The daughter of Christian Wentz, who was court physician to the Duke of Baden, in 1835 she married Polish...

Franz (Frank) Ziegenhagen and Dorothea (Dora) Schmidt, his second wife, emigrated from Steinborn, Kreis Schlochau, West Prussia (now Słupia, Gmina Debrzno, Poland), a small farming community. Franz and...