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[2] [14] Written in German, Die Deutschen von Iowa und deren Errungenschaften was the only book of its kind, dedicated to the history of German, Austrian, and Swiss immigrants to Iowa. [6] Popular chapters within his book include Chapter 8, "German Iowans in the Union Army", Chapter 22, "German Settlements", [ 6 ] and Chapter 11, "Iowa's ...
Long Road to Liberty: The Odyssey of a German Regiment in the Yankee Army; The 15th Missouri Volunteer Infantry. Kent State University Press. ISBN 9780873388719. Baron, Frank (2012). Abraham Lincoln and the German Immigrants: Turners and Forty-Eighters (Yearbook of German-American Studies, Supplemental Issue, Vol 4). Lawrence, Kan.:
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
Iowa’s immigrants work in meatpacking (45% are immigrants), animal production (16%) and nursing facilities (12%) ... Jan Flora is professor emeritus at Iowa State University. In the College of ...
The tide of German immigration to Pennsylvania swelled between 1725 and 1775, with immigrants arriving as redemptioners or indentured servants. By 1775, Germans constituted about one-third of the population of the state. German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.
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Born on a farm near Sheffield, Iowa, to German immigrants, [1] Schwengel attended the rural schools in West Fork Township and high schools in Chapin and Sheffield. He graduated from Northeast Missouri Teachers College at Kirksville, Missouri, in 1930 where he was an undergraduate member of Phi Sigma Epsilon fraternity, and attended graduate school at the University of Iowa in Iowa City from ...
Pages in category "German-American culture in Iowa" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.