Johann Georg (George) Holl was born in 1850 in the small farming village of Oberpreuschwitz, now incorporated into the city of Bayreuth, Bavaria. He was the third son of farmer Johann Holl (1818-1886)...

A collection of letters sent to George Neubert, an immigrant who lived in Missouri in the 1890s, contributed by a descendant. The letters were largely sent by Neubert's sister Marie Hirtes and his nephew...

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...

Individuals mentioned in the George A. Zimmermann Family Letters.

This group of letters is drawn from the Clarence A. Moore Papers, held by the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College Library (Holland, Mich.).

Individuals mentioned in the George Neubert Letters

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...

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...