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,...

Individuals mentioned in the Schulz 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...

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...

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...

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...