Diaries Of Our Pennsylvania German Ancestors 1846 1925 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German: Devoted to the History, Biography, Genealogy, Poetry, Folk-Lore and General Interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and Their Descendants Carolina, from Kentucky, from Alabama and eastern Tennessee, where his off spring had wandered and multiplied. Later on he came from Ohio and Indiana where, after populating them, the great army of his descendants had failed to find sufficient elbow-room for their grow ing generations. He laid down his and his children's lives as frontiersman; he was of the garrison of Fort Dearborn (chicago), that was massacred in 1812; he fought gallantly as enlisted man and officer in the Black Hawk and in the Mexican war; and in the war Of the Se cession he disputed the honor of having contributed the largest part of enlisted men with his lately arrived German cousins. He also fought in the Spanish and in the Philippine wars and in China. His name stands engraved upon the roll of honor of the United States for deeds of extraordinary courage and merit. He has proven his right to the citizenship of Illinois with his sword and his lifeblood. But Of even larger account is his part in the peaceful development of the State. Whenever and wherever you go back to the beginnings Of a community in Illi nois, you almost invariably come upon a pennsylvania-german, or one of Penn: sylvania - German descent, in some useful occupation other than that of clearing the forest and breaking and tilling the soil - as ferryman, or as carpenter, black smith, locksmith, gunsmith, as wagon maker, shoemaker and hatter. When ever a pennsylvania-german appears in one of these primitive communities, it is like the dawn Of Civilization. For almost without exception he is found to be a man skilled in handicraft, and in the use of the hammer, the saw and the plane, which he brings along. He makes the first tables and chairs and coffins; he forges nails and horseshoes and plow shares; he builds wagons; he erects mills - saw-mills, grist-mills, carding-mills and opens stores for sale and exchange, and SO brings the first comforts into the wilderness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.