| Michigan - 1903 - 742 pages
...where he learned the trade of cooper. In 1855 he- severed the ties which 59° PHILIP EICHHORN, JR. 591 bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortune in a strange land. He arrived in Port Huron and here continued to devote his attention to his... | |
| Clarence Monroe Burton - History - 1908 - 858 pages
...at his trade in the beautiful old city of Vienna, and in the latter year he severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in America, having been nineteen years of age at the time. Soon after his arrival in the port of New York he made... | |
| Richard Illenden Bonner - Lenawee County (Mich.) - 1909 - 1002 pages
...church in Germany, where he was reared to the age of nineteen years, when, in 1871, he severed the ties that bound him to home and Fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in America. He located in Allegan county, Michigan, and there he secured employment as a section hand on the Lake... | |
| Harriet Taylor Upton - Ohio - 1910 - 886 pages
...Heidelberg College. In 1844, at the age of nineteen years Mr. Steinbacher severed the gracious ties which bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in America. He came to Ohio soon after his arrival in the United States, and here the first two years of his sojourn... | |
| Alvah Littlefield Sawyer - Alger County (Mich.) - 1911 - 676 pages
...to whose schools he is indebted for his early educational training. When but sixteen years of age he severed the gracious ties that bound him to home and fatherland and emigrated to America. He landed in New York city on the 3rd of June, 1871, and thence made his w r... | |
| E. Polk Johnson - Kentucky - 1912 - 878 pages
...Bernard Boehmer was reared and educated in his native land and as a young man he severed the ties which bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortune in America. He located in the city of Cincinnati, where he followed the painter's trade, but... | |
| Walter Williams - Missouri - 1913 - 802 pages
...In 1850, when about twenty years of age, he severed the ties that bound him to home and native land and set forth to seek his fortunes in America, to which country he came without financial resources or influential friends, but well equipped with ambition, self-reliance... | |
| Ellis Baker Usher - Wisconsin - 1914 - 452 pages
...also he learned the trade of millwright. In 1848, when about twenty-four years of age, he severed the ties that bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in America. Wisconsin was at that time receiving a large and worthy influx of pioneers from Germany, and Mr. Kremer... | |
| Henry Anson Castle - Minnesota - 1915 - 808 pages
...where he continued to reside until 1867, when, shortly after attaining to his majority, he severed the ties that bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to seek his fortunes in America, where he felt asMired of better opportunities of gaining independence and success throueh individual... | |
| Charles Moore - Alcona County (Mich.) - 1915 - 682 pages
...connection with which he became a skilled workman. In 1868, at the age of seventeen years, he severed the ties that bound him to home and fatherland and set forth to win for himself a position of independence in America, which country he felt offered better opportunities... | |
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