I am a little frustrated this morning. My efforts to find a good story to write for this blog today were rather fruitless. Because I am not in Altenburg, I look for a type of story that does not rely heavily on documents that we have in our research library. Instead, I look for a … More A Very Short Note from the Teacher
There seems to be some dispute about when the steamboat Clyde arrived in St. Louis with the immigrants that had voyaged across the Atlantic aboard the Johann Georg. However, an article in a St. Louis newspaper said that the Clyde had arrived on January 24, 1839, so that is the date that is agreeable to … More And Then There Were Two
This past November 3rd, we posted a story about the departure of two ships from Bremerhaven, Germany. That post was titled, The Voyage Begins. The Copernicus and the Johann Georg left on that day in 1838. On New Year’s Eve, we posted the story about the arrival of the Copernicus in New Orleans. That article … More Another New Orleans Arrival
Pictured above is a portion of the Trinity Lutheran Church records. It is from a section in the records which documented the deaths which occurred in St. Louis in 1839 before the majority of the immigrants traveled to their new home in Perry County. In the middle of the photo is the last of these … More Martin Stephan Never Made It to Perry County
The photo shows the St. Louis landing in 1857 On February 9, 1839, the steamboat Clyde arrived in St. Louis, Missouri with about 140 passengers from Germany. These German Lutherans had traveled across the Atlantic Ocean aboard the Johann Georg before boarding the Clyde in New Orleans. Two Lutheran pastors aboard this boat were … More The Clyde Arrives in St. Louis
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