My line was originally from Cambridge, England. I grew up in a city of German immigrants in southern Indiana. It is still populated with a large descendent population of those initial groups. This family line left St. Louis in the coming years and expanded their 'goings-on' elsewhere. That will be covered in the upcoming posts.
Fascinating reading about these different family lines. I have a lot of catching up to your most recent installment! These will be my reads for the week.
Great storytelling!
North St. Louis was overwhelmingly German immigrants in 1874. Today it is a blighted area and almost exclusively black population.
My line was originally from Cambridge, England. I grew up in a city of German immigrants in southern Indiana. It is still populated with a large descendent population of those initial groups. This family line left St. Louis in the coming years and expanded their 'goings-on' elsewhere. That will be covered in the upcoming posts.
The severe bank panic in 1873 led to a really bad year economically, in 1874 St. Louis. A lot of bad stuff went down that year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873
Fascinating reading about these different family lines. I have a lot of catching up to your most recent installment! These will be my reads for the week.
Thank you for reading them, Charlotte. Yes, this line is providing a lot to write about; way more than I expected. They were something else!