German Immigration in first person as if you lived it
... The rooms were bigger at least and most everyone else living there was German, too. ... As soon as those two months were up we were the first group on that train out of New York. ... We had heard that a good 40% of the population was German while the rest was a mixture of other immigrants (Billigmeier 61). ... I am happily married to a full blooded German man and we have five kids, three boys and two girls. ... More than 51% of the population alone was German. Many German men and boys fought in the Civil war for the union, seeing as how most Germans never believed in slavery anyway. ... htm) List of works citied Of German Ways --Lavern Rippley Americans From Germans—Robert Henry Billigmeier www.