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Edgar Sydenstricker (15 July 1881 – 19 March 1936) was an American economist and statistician. Sydenstricker was born on 15 July 1881 in Shanghai to missionaries Caroline Maude (Stulting) (1857–1921) and Absalom Sydenstricker. His parents returned to their home state of West Virginia for the birth of his younger sister Pearl S. Buck ...
Germans from Hermann in Missouri Rhineland, 1890. In 1837, school teacher George Bayer, a German from Philadelphia, traveled to Missouri and purchased 11,000 acres (4,500 ha) of land along the Missouri River. When the first 17 settlers arrived at what would become Hermann, Missouri, the land terrain was unexpectedly found to be unsuitable for a ...
Deutschheim State Historic Site is a state-owned property located in Hermann, Missouri, United States, preserving historic houses and other structures, such as a barn and winery, built and used by German immigrants in the middle 19th century. [4]
Missouri Historical Review 85 (July 1991): 361-380. online; Trautmann, Frederic "Missouri through a German's Eyes: Franz Von Löher on St. Louis and Hermann." Missouri Historical Review 77 (July 1983): 367-694. based on 1840s and 1850s online "Winegrowing in the Hermann Area: Early Years' Chronicle." Missouri Historical Review 87 (April 1993 ...
The Hermanner Volksblatt (German for 'Hermann People's Paper ') was a weekly German newspaper published in Hermann, Missouri from around 1856 until 1928. In the early 1870s, the paper briefly changed publishers and was known as the Gasconade Zeitung (German for 'Gasconade News ') and the Hermanner Volksblatt und Gasconade Zeitung, before returning to its original name where it remained until ...
Hermann Historic District is a national historic district located at Hermann, Gasconade County, Missouri.The district encompasses 360 contributing buildings, 4 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Hermann.
George Bayer (27 September 1800 – 18 March 1839), was born in Karlsruhe, Baden Palatinate of the Holy Roman Empire, and died in Hermann, Missouri. He was a music teacher and land locator, and is honored as the founder of Hermann, Missouri and of the Missouri Rhineland.
Kotthoff-Weeks Farm Complex is a historic home and farm located near Hermann, Gasconade County, Missouri. The farmhouse and barn were built between about 1850 and 1861, and are of heavy timber frame and stone buildings in the Fachwerk form. The house measures approximately 58 feet by 26 feet and features a stone chimney and fireplace.