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Das Anfangs-Buch, oder Einleitung zu grösseren Schulbüchern, zum Gebrauch für kleine Kinder. Vermehrte, verbesserte und illustrirte Auflage. Cleveland, Ohio: C. Hauser, n.d. 64 pp, ill.
On cover: Cleveland, Ohio: Verlagshaus der Evangelischen Gemeinschaft. C. Hauser, Verleger, 1903-1923 Woodland, Ave., S.E.
Donated by Rob Howell.

Auer, Wilhelm. Heiligen-Legende für Schule und Haus. Mit Bild, Leben eines Heiligen, Lehre und Gebet für jeden Tag des Jahres. Fünfte Auflage. Milwaukee, Wis.: Diederich-Schaefer Co., 1890. 751 pp., ill.
Diederich Schaefer was one of the pioneer church goods houses in America.
Donated by the St. Nazianz (Wis.) Historical Society.
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Auerbach, Berthold. Edelweiss. Eine Erzählung. Philadelphia, Pa.: Morwitz & Co., n.d. [1870-1879?]. 412 pp.
On title page: Philadelphia: Morwitz & Co., 612 und 614 Chestnut Strasse. — Stamped “Northwestern University Library, Watertown, Wis.”
Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, MN.

Berens, Klara. Unter den Tannen. Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte. Deutsche Evangelische Jugend-Bibliothek, 29. Bändchen. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden, [1900]. 124 pp.
Klara (Rieger) Berens was born in 1851 in Holstein, Mo., the daughter of Pastor Jos. Rieger, one of the founders of the German Lutheran Synod in America. She studied at the Monticello School in Alton, Ill., then returned to teach English in Holstein, Mo. She married Pastor August Berens, another German-American author, in 1878.
Book is stamped “Northwestern University Library, Watertown, Wis.”
Story is set in the upper Midwest of the United States. From page 6: “Farmer Hiller machtes jedes Jahr ein schönes Stueck Geld mit seinen jungen Tannen, und wie er, so machten es viele Farmer in Wisconsin und Minnesota, die auf ihren Heimstätten grössere oder kleinere Strecken fanden, die dicht mit jungen Tannen bewachsen waren, die keine menschliche Hand gepflanzt, sondern Gottes grosser Säemann, der Sturmwind, gesäet.” From pag 94: “Bei Hillers droben zu Pineland in Minnesota war des kleinen Ted ungelenk geschriebener, schlecht stilisierter und noch schlechter buchstabierter Brief ein rechtes Ereignis.”
Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, MN.

Deutsche evangelische Synode von Nord-Amerika, Hrsg. Evangelisches Gesangbuch. Revidierte Ausgabe. St. Louis, Mo.: Eden, 1907. 465, 98 pp.
On cover: Georg Arndt. — On title page: Eden Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. / Chicago — On title page verso: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Louis E. Nollau, in trust for the German Evangelical Synod of the West, in the Clerk’s Office of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Copyright 1895.
Includes “Episteln und Evangelien für die Sonn- und Festtage des Kirchenjahrs,” “Die Leidensgeschicte Jesu Christi, aus den vier Evangelisten zusammengezogen,” “Gebete für die häusliche Andacht,” “Gebete zur Vorbereitung und Feier des heiligen Abendmahls,” and “Krankengebete.” / Includes index. / Blind stamped cloth cover with gold spine title.
Donated by the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee.

Emmerich, Anna Katharina. Das bittere Leiden unseres Herrn Jesu Christi. (The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ). Clyde, Mo.: Druck und Verlag des Benediktiner Klosters (Benedictine Convent of Perpetual Adoration), 1913. 320 pp., frontispiece.
Inscribed: “Rudolf Lang, Milwaukee, U.S.A.”
Donated by the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee.

[Gaussen, L.] Das erste Blatt der Bibel. Eine Auslegung der Schöpfungsgeschichte nach 1. Mose Kap. 1. für die Jugend und ihre Freunde. Cleveland, Ohio: Sonntagschul- und Tractat-Verein der Evang. Gemeinschaft, n.d. 224 pp.
Donated by Rob Howell.

Harbaugh, Heinrich. Harbaugh’s Harfe. Gedichte in Pennsylvanisch-Deutscher Mundart. Revised ed. B. [Benjamin] Bausman, ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Reformed Church Publication Board, 1902. 121 pp., ill.
Includes a Wortverzeichniss defining Pennsyvlania German words.
On title page: Herausgegeben von B. Bausman. Reformed Church Publication Board, No. 1306 Arch Street, Philadelphia.
Heinrich Harbaugh was born Oct. 28, 1817 in Franklin City, PA. He was a minister of the Reformed Church in 1843 and taught theology at Mercersburg Seminary. From 1843 until 1863 he was a teacher in Ohio. A prolific writer in English and German and considered one of the most talented of Pennsylvania German dialect writers. He died December 28, 1867.
Benjamin Bausman was born Jan. 28,1824 in Lancaster, Pa.. He was a pastor at the German Reformed Church in Reading, Pa. (1863-1909); he died May 8, 1909. Donated by David Flieger.
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Harders, J. F. G. Wohin? Ein Geleitswort auf den Lebensweg für die konfirmierte Jugend. Vierte Auflage. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1900. 108 pp.
Johann Friedrich Gustav Harders was born in Kiel, Germany in 1863. He arrived in the United States in 1887, and married Isabella Schmidt in 1889. J. F. G. Harders was the first editor of Kinderfreude, published by Northwestern, serving in that role from 1892 until around 1907, when he served in Indian missions in Arizona until his death in 1917. He was a Lutheran pastor and also the principal of the Jerusalem Lutheran Church and School in Milwaukee (1904).
Donated by David Flieger.

Information über das Peace River Gebiet. Edmonton, Alberta: Missionskommission des Alberta und British Columbia Distrikts der Ev.-Luth. Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten, 1927. 10 pp., ill.
Settlement of German-speaking people in Peace River/Grimshaw area of Alberta, Canada. Includes a form for requesting additional information about land in the region.|
Donated by Darlene Thomson.
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Subject Collection

Bode, Daniel R. “The Family of Fritz and Karoline (Westerfeld) Lehde.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 2, 34, pp. 124-139, ill.
Karl Friedrich Wilhelm “Fritz” Lehde was born in Westrup, Westphalia, in 1843. Fritz immigrated to Texas in 1860, settling in Washington County. He enrolled in the Texas Infantry of the Confederate States Army in 1862, was captured in Louisiana and held as a prisoner of war in New Orleans until 1864. Fritz Lehde married Karoline Westerfeld in 1869 at Eben Ezer Lutheran Church in Berlin, Washington County. Other family surnames mentioned in this history: Haferkamp, Hole, Lehrmann, Wolske, Kuretsch, Mascheg, Knuppel, Graeber, Imhoff, Balke, Gaskamp, Wendt, Fischer, Boortz, Lange, Spreen, Schwartz, and Slagle.

Carter, Kathy. “Grasmeyer Hoped for Colorado River Business.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 2, 34, pp. 116.
Originally appeared in the Fayette County Record, May 4, 2012.
“Frederick William Grasmeyer was born on Christmas Day 1800 in Hamburg, Germany. He was one of the first German citizens to immigrate to Texas and the first to acquire land in present day Fayette County. . . . He established a trading post, cotton gin and mill on his homestead [along the Colorado River] and built a river landing for his ferry boat.”

“Death of C. H. Boppe [Obituary from January 1899].”
C. Hermann Boppe was editor of the Milwaukee Freidenker and a leading member of the Turnverein; the Freidenker became the official paper of the North American Turnerbund due to his efforts. He was born in Switzerland in either 1841 or 1842, emigrated to the U.S. in either 1861 or 1864, and married Magdalena Schiess in 1889. Speakers at his funeral included Heinrich Huhn, Otto Soubron, Prof. W. H. Rosenstengel, and Emil Dapprich.

Geitner, Rebekka. “Emigration Story in 1850s from Hamburg to America.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 14, no. 4, Winter 2011, pp. 16-21, ill.
Tells the emigration story of Johann and Barbara Oppel from Velden, Germany to America, in 1855. The Oppels settled in Indiana. Much of the information for this story was gathered from letters written by Johann and succeeding generations to relatives in Germany.

Huber, Leslie Albrecht. The Journey Takers. [Merrimac, Wis.]: [Studio 6 Sense], 2010. x, 322 pp., ill.
Includes bibliographical notes and references (pp. 265-317).
Huber traces the journeys of her ancestors who left their homes in Germany, Sweden, and England, to begin new lives in the United States. Her German ancestors came from Weselsdorf, Nevern, and Benz in Mecklenburg.
Contents: Pt. 1. In Germany: The story of the families of Georg Albrecht and Mina Haker — Pt 2. In Sweden: The story of the family of Karsti Nilsdotter — Pt. 3. In England and beyond: The story of the family of Edmond Harris — P 4. In Fremont, Utah: The story of the family of Earl Albrecht.
Donated by Charles James.

Information on Gustav Erlenkötter.
Contents: Text copied from the 7. November 1840 Amtsblatt der Regierung Düsselforf and printed portions of a PDF titled 150 Jahre Bergischer Volksbote (15. Juli 2011).
Gustav Erlenkötter is the author of several education-related books published by Schäfer and Koradi in Philadelphia between 1871 and 1891, including Liederbuch für deutsch-amerikanische Schulen (Erstes Bändchen); Rechenbuch für deutsche Elementarschulen in Amerika (Erster Theil); Mensch und Natur. Ein Lehrbuch Gemeinnütziger Kenntnisse; Lesebuch für die Oberklasse der Elementarschule; Lesebuch für die Mittelklasse der Elementarschule; Lesebuch für Realklassen deutsch-amerikanischer Schulen; Rechenfibel. Stufenmässig geordnete Aufgaben für Anfänger im Kopf- und Tafelrechnen; Erstes Lese-Büchlein für deutsche Elementarschulen; and Lesebuch für die Unterklasse der Elementarschule (nebst Wandfibel); as well as a self-published book of poetry titled Poetischer Jugendschatz in Bild und Spruch, der deutschen Jugend gewidmet. Online research indicates Erlenkötter was an assistant teacher in Burscheid (Germany), when, in 1840, he was appointed to the post of teacher at the evangelical school in Pattscheid. Erlenkötter was liberal in his politics and critical of the local educational system; in 1861 he founded a newspaper to promote his views (which later became the Bergischer Volksbote), but was forced to sell it and then emigrated to America around 1865. The 1870 U.S. census shows Gustav (occupation teacher), his wife Julia, and his son Charles living in the Town of Union, Hudson County, New Jersey.

Jacobson, Cynthia. “Spotlight on West Prussia.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 5-13, ill. (maps).
Provides an historical summary from the middle ages through the 20th century, lists the Kreise for an 1871 map, and identifies genealogical resources and references, including websites, maps, mailing lists, printed sources, and religious and state archives.

Joch, Andreas. “Dealing with the American City on Transnational Grounds: German-Speaking European Architects and Urban Planners in the United States, 1930-1970.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 47-48.
The author’s research project will “examine the life and work of a group of European-trained, German-speaking urban planners and architects who came to the United States during the late 1920s and 1930s,” and is part of a larger project analyzing postwar transatlantic connections in the areas of social work, consumption, cities, and business. The current project will focus on two themes–the development of individual careers in the context of migration and exile, and transatlantic exchange processes. Case studies will include Victor Gruen, Ludwig Hilberseimer, and Konrad Wachsmann.

Kulhanek, Katie. “German Immigrant Builds Up a Town. The Father of Halsted: John Henry Wessels.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 2, 34, pp. 122-123, ill.
Originally appeared in the Fayette County Record, Sept. 6, 2011.
Johann Hinrich Wessels was born on April 8, 1863 in Oldenburg, Germany. When his father died, his mother decided to join relatives in Rutersville, Fayette County, Texas; she and her three boys arrived in 1871. As an adult, John Henry did much for the community of Halsted, building a house and opening a general merchandise store, cotton gin, saloon, lumber shed, dance hall, and several gravel pits. he married Mary Magdalen Heller, and later was elected County Commissioner for Precinct I. Two fires which occurred in the early 1900s destroyed most of the buildings John Henry Wessels had established.

Logemann, Jan. “European Imports? European Imigrants and the Transformation of American Consumer Culture from the 1920s to the 1960s.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 49-50.
Report on a research project. “A wave of immigrants and emigres, fleeing the totalitarian regimes of the 1930s, came to play a prominent part in an exchange process about consumer marketing and design that continued well into the postwar era.”

May, Karl. Old Surehand. Reiseerlebnisse. 3. Band. Karl May’s gesammelte Reiseerzählungen, Band 19. Freiburg i. Br.: Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld, n.d. [1890s]. 566 pp., portrait.
MKI owns only vol. 3. — Stamped: St. Rose Young Ladies’ Library, No. 129; stamped: St. Joseph Convent Library, Campbellsport, Wis.
Donated by the School Sisters of St. Francis, Milwaukee.

Mehrländer, Andrea. The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War Period, 1850-1870: A Study and Research Compendium. Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011. xiv, 442 pp., ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From back cover: “Examines the role of the German minority in the American South during the Civil War. In a comparative analysis of German civic leaders, businessmen, militia officers, and blockade runners in Charleston, New Orleans, and Richmond, it reveals a German immigrant population which not only largely supported slavery, but was also heavily involved in fighting the war. A detailed appendix includes an extensive survey of primary and secondary sources, including tables listing the members of the all-German units in Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, with names, place of origin, rank, occupation, income, and number of slaves owned.”

Neumann, Rita. 1000 Tage Amerika. Zuhause in einer neuen Welt, oder, was ein Tourist nicht sieht. Allgemeine Literatur in der Blauen Eule, Bd. 10. Essen: Die Blaue Eule, 1987. 192 pp., ill.
The author tells of her three years spent living in America with her husband and two children during the early 1980s, in the form of letters to friends.
Partial contents: Umzug in die Neue Welt — Unser amerikanisches Haus und unser erster Sonntag — Auktion im Gartenclub von Moontownship — “Hummels” und Popcorn — Heimweh beim verrückten Anton — Was ist ein Debütantinnenball und was ist Quark? — Quilt komm von quillt! — Ein Kardinal, Harmonisten und schwäbischen Gedankengut in Pennsylvanien — Wie kommt der Rundfunk zu Geld? und mein erster amerikanischer Hausfreund — Babyshower — Was ist so besonders an Heidelberg/PA — Warum soll man in Amerika das metrische System einführen? — Was ist ein “volunteer”? — Amish People — Berliner Mauer oder was heisst hier Patriotismus — Was soll man denn zu Weihnachten schenken? — Wie die Amerikaner so bauen — Stadtgespräche — Eine deutsch-amerikanische Reise [visiting Germany with Americans] — Nachwort, geschrieben auf Koffern sitzend in einem leergeräumten Haus.

Ochs, Johann Rudolf. “America Guide by Johann Rudolf Ochs.” Swiss American Historical Society Review, vol. 48, no. 2, June 2012, pp. i-vi, 1-121, ill.
Translated, annotated, and supplemented with bio-bibliographical notes, illustrations, and selected documents by Andreas Mielke and Sandra Yelton.
Special issue examines Johann Rudolf Ochs (1673-1749) and his interest in establishing a Swiss colony in America. Includes an “Ochs Chronology,” the Ochs family tree, Ochs and his social network, translations of letters to Ochs and other contemporaneous letters on the topic of such emigration, a translation of Ochs’s 1711 Americanischer Wegweiser (America Guide, or Short and essential Description of the English provinces in North America, but in particular its land Carolina), Ochs’s subsequent life in Georgian England, and an extensive bibliography.

Pohlsander, Hans A. “John A. Wagener, His Life, and His Family.” The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 37, no. 4, Sept. 2012, pp. 8-14, ill.
John A. (Johann Andreas) Wagener was one of the relatively few German-born men who fought and held high rank in the American Civil War on the Confederate side. He was born in 1816 in the village of Sievern, near Bremerhaven, in the kingdom of Hanover. In 1831 he emigrated to America, and by 1833 had moved to Charleston, South Carolina, becoming a leader among the German immigrants in this city. During the Civil War he served with distinction in the Confederate army and rose to the rank of brigadier general. He died in 1876.

Reiterer, Barbara. “Traveling Between Worlds: Gender, Exile, and the Framing of Applied Social Science Careers in Europe and the United States, 1940-1980.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 59-60.
Report on a research project. “This dissertation focuses on Austrian and German women emigres, such as Gisela Konopka from Germany and the Viennese social worker Elsa Leichter, who fled from the National Socialists and settled in the United States, where they pursued careers as social work professionals. My project investigates these women’s lives and careers and traces their professional networks as they related to the social, professional, and academic culture of the United States at a time when the social sciences were expanding greatly and gaining significant public authority.”

Riordan, Dan. “Finding Jacob Reiser.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 15, no. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 14-20.
Details the author’s extensive genealogical research which identified his third great-grandfather, Jacob Reiser, who had been born in Rommelsbach, Wuerttemberg, and had emigrated in 1847 with his second wife Anne Marie Schaefer and her daughters from the village of Allscheid,Vulkaneifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, a town that no longer exists as all of its inhabitants emigrated in 1852. Jacob Reiser purchased 40 acres in Saukville Township, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, in 1849.

Spiekermann, Uwe. “The Spreckelses: American History as Family History.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 65-66, ill.
Report on a new book being published as part of the GHI’s Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German American Business Biographies project. “At the turn of the twentieth century, the German-born ‘Sugar King’ Claus Spreckels was recognized as a representative figure of the Californian elite, and the Spreckels family was publicly perceived as representative of the West Coast.” Claus Spreckels pioneered large-scale sugar plantations in Hawaii and introduced the sugar beet industry in the United States.

“Transatlantic Perspectives: Europe in the Eyes of European Immigrants to the United States, 1930-1980.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, Supplement, no. 8, 2012, pp. 77-79.
“This four-year project explores the role of European migrants in transatlantic exchange processes during the mid-twentieth century. . . . By adapting their European professional heritage to their work in the United States and by translating American innovations to the context of their European homelands, these migrants acted as conduits for social and intellectual transfer.”

Zelade, Richard. “Days of Beer and Pretzels.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 34, no. 2, Summer 2012, pp. 107-112, ill.
Describes the beer garden culture of Austin, Texas, during the 1880s and 1890s, specifically mentioning Buass Garden, Pressler’s Garden, Scholz’s Garden, Jacoby’s Garden, and Bulians’ Garden.

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Family Histories and Archives

Bartel, Dale. Bartel Family History. [37], [18] pp., ill., and one compact disc.
Includes: Ancestors from Pomerania: Bornfleth, Stueber, Wittnebel — Sesquicentennial of the Bartel Emigration from Pomerania to America: Arrived in New York August 4, 1854 — Compact disc with images of the documents that have been printed for the two titles listed above.
Johann Friederich Bornfleth was born 1824 in Pomerania; he left the village of Arnsberg, Kreis Greifenberg in 1865 at the age of 41 to immigrate to the United States. In 1866 he married Caroline Matilda Maria Stueber in Watertown, Wisconsin. Caroline’s parents — and later her grandparents — emigrated from Triebs, Kreis Greifenberg, Pomerania. Johann and Caroline Bornfleth farmed and raised a family in the Town of Clyman, Dodge County, Wisconsin. August Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Wittnebel and Amelia Charlotte Caroline Sauer Wittnebel, along with four children, left Trechel, Kreis Stargard, Pomerania in 1890. They settled near Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Among their children born in Trechel was Bertha Marie Auguste Wittnebel, who married Wilhelm Bornfleth in 1906 at Ashippun, Wisconsin — they later farmed near Clyman, Wisconsin, and retired to a house on the Rock River at Hustisford. Friedrich Gotthelf Bartel and his wife Henrietta Borchardt Bartel emigrated from a Pomeranian town called Lankow (Kreis uncertain) in 1854; they farmed in Ixonia, Wisconsin.
Donated by Dale Bartel.

Daniel, Josephine Schreiner. Miniature Paintings of the Childhood Homes of U.S. Presidents, Washington to Ford. 37 paintings.
Note: Missing painting for home of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. — Ms. Daniel had displayed her paintings at the Chicago Public Library in 1970.
Oil-on-hardboard paintings depicting the birthplaces/childhood homes of the first 38 presidents of the United States (Washington to Ford). The artist, Josephine Schreiner Daniel, was born in Mallersdorf, Niederbayern, in 1906, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1922. She worked in a biophysics laboratory at the University of Chicago, and had retired in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Maher, Patricia. Maher Family History. [2010]: [15] pp., ill.
Family history begins with Louis Wittick and Louisa Chedley (Scheigle?), both born in the first half of the 1800s in Auenstein, Baden-Wurttemberg, and both buried in Austin, Minnesota. The author’s parents, Roy Harold Maher and Laura Margaret Foran, farmed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.
Donated by Patricia Maher.

[Martinelli, Tom.] Wagner / Laufenberg Family History. [Madison, Wis.]: [the author], 2010. 81 pp., ill. (some col.).
The Wagner family is traced back to the city of Trier; the Laufenberg family to the town of Boseroth, south of Siegburg. Michael Wagner emigrated in 1863, eventually settling on a farm in the Town of Springfield, Dane County, Wisconsin. Johann and Maria Laufenberg emigrated in 1848, first settling just south of Milwaukee, and then, in 1852, on land near Pine Bluff, in the Township of Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin. Theresa Laufenberg and Joe Wagner met in Madison and were married in 1911 in Pine Bluff.
Donated by Tom Martinelli.

Das Picnic: Vexierbild / Picture Puzzle Advertisement for Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburger Tropfen.
On one side is a picture puzzle titled “Das Picnic,” with the words “Wo ist der Mann, welcher stets Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburger Tropfen gebraucht?” in old German script below. The reverse side describes the product and provides directions and cautions for its use. The product was (most likely) manufactured and sold by A. Vogeler & Co., of Baltimore Md. [From the Internet: August Vogeler was born in Germany in 1819, and emigrated to the United States in his twenties. In 1874 he established a drug business in Baltimore and manufactured products such as Dr. August Koenig’s Hamburger Tropfen.] At the bottom of the card is printed: F. M. Findeisen, New Cassel (Fond du Lac County), Wis. [Internet searches show that Frederick Maximilian Findeisen was born around 1836/1837 in Prussia and arrived in New York in 1862. That same year he married Ernestina in Fond du Lac. He naturalized as an American citizen in 1865. He owned a grocery store (“Dealer in Dry Goods, Boots & Shoes, Hardware & Groceries”) in New Cassel, which may have been built in 1874, and he served as the New Cassel postmaster in 1868. He died in 1905, and is buried in Campbellsport, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.]
Donated by Fran Luebke.
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Textbooks

Arndt, Karl J. R., ed. Early German-American Narratives. New York: American Book Company, 1941. ix, 358 pp.
Includes introductions, exercises, and vocabulary.
On title page: Selected and Edited by Karl J. R. Arndt, Louisiana State University.
From the foreword: “[This book] is presented to help make accessible to students of American literature, history, and sociology some of the extensive German source material on the literary, religious, social, and political history of America. . . . The German press and literature of nineteenth-century America is full of valuable and interesting information which students of American literature, history, and sociology cannot conscientiously ignore. To exclude non-English material — deliberately or through ignorance — from consideration in these subjects only results in a narrow and biased view. . . . By way of introduction to this comparatively unexplored field three narratives having their settings in Texas, the Mississippi Valley, and Pennsylvania are presented. The first is by Sealsfield and gives an authentic picture of Texas on the eve of her war of independence [Die Erzählung des Obersten Morse]. The second shows life on the Mississippi as seen by Gerstäcker thirty-six years before Mark Twain wrote about it, and at a time when German immigration was especially heavy in that region [Sieben Tage auf einem amerikanischen Dampfboot]. The third story is a delightful tale about Pennsylvania Germans [Der veheiratete Doktor, by Friedrich Gerstaecker].”
Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, MN.

Berlitz, M. D. [Maximilian Delphinus] Lehrbuch für den Unterricht in den neueren Sprachen. Deutscher Teil für Erwachsene. Gänzlich umgearbeitete Ausgabe. New York; Paris; London; Berlin, M. D. Berlitz; Berlitz School; Siegfried Cronbach. 127 pp.
Printed in the United States of America.
Donated by Eric Mischo.

Werfel, Franz. Jacobowsky und der Oberst. Komödie einer Tragödie in drei Akten. (Jacobowsky and the Colonel: Comedy of a Tragody in Three Acts). Edited with introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Gustave O. Arlt. New York: F. S. Crofts & Co., 1946. xvi, 208 pp., frontispiece ill.
On title page: Gustave O. Arlt of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Stamped “Northwestern University Library, Watertown, Wis.”
Franz Werfel (1890-1945) and his wife emigrated to the United States in 1940.
Donated by Prof. David M. Gosdeck, Martin Luther College Library, New Ulm, MN.

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