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...

Individuals mentioned in the Crede Family Papers

This collection contains family letters of the Chicago journalist Hermann Raster, who emigrated from Germany in the wake of the upheaval of 1848 and was an active supporter of the United States during...

This collection consists of letters sent by three siblings, Charlotte, Sophie, and Theodor Engelmann, to their sister Margarethe. The three Engelmann siblings emigrated to Illinois with their parents,...

This collection contains letters sent to Sophie Sosnowski, who was born at Pforzheim, Baden in 1809. The daughter of Christian Wentz, who was court physician to the Duke of Baden, in 1835 she married Polish...

These letters were sent to Sophie Wentz Sosnowski by her sister, brother-in-law, and niece in Germany.