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 Rustemeyer Family Papers, held by the State Historical Society of Missouri, and includes letters sent to Bernard Rustemeyer in the years after World War I,...