Research Catalog

Title

From Luxembourg to La Crosse and beyond : 1851-1910 / Sandra L. Hammes, Jean Ensch.

Author

Hammes, Sandra L.

Publication

• [Wisconsin] : [S.L. Hammes], [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Ensch, Jean

Description

559 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm

Summary

"Most of the estimated 80,000 19th-century Luxembourgers emigrated from rural Luxembourg to the Midwest -- many to La Crosse, Wisconsin. ... This publication identifies and documents these immigrants, their descendants, and their lives in their new homeland."--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Luxemburger Gazette. English. Selections.

Subject

• Gonner, Nicholas, 1835-1892
• Luxemburger Aid Society (La Crosse, Wis.)
• 1800-1899
• Luxembourg Americans > Wisconsin > La Crosse > History
• Luxembourg Americans > Wisconsin > La Crosse > Genealogy
• Luxembourg Americans > Wisconsin > La Crosse > Biography
• Luxembourg Americans > Middle West > History
• Emigration and immigration
• Luxembourg Americans
• La Crosse (Wis.) > History
• Luxembourg > Emigration and immigration > 19th century
• Luxembourg
• Middle West
• Wisconsin > La Crosse

Genre/Form

• Biographies.
• Genealogy.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 556-558) and indexes.

Language (note)

• In English; newspaper excerpts translated from the original German.

Contents

Introduction / by Sandy Hammes -- Introduction & acknowledgements ; A Luxembourg history timeline / by Jean Ensch -- The beginnings of La Crosse ; Arriving in America / by Sandy Hammes -- Nicholas Gonner / by Jean Ensch & Sandy Hammes -- Luxemburger Gazette / [selected articles] translated by Jean Ensch -- Luxemburger Aid Society / by Sandy Hammes -- Family histories / by Jean Ensch & Sandy Hammes.

ISBN

• 9780578194622
• 0578194627

LCCN

2018300645

OCLC

• on1003210940
• SCSB-9358329

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library