Irish Iowa
Irish Iowa

Author: Timothy Walch

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019-03-04

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1439666296

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Iowa offered freedom and prosperity to the Irish fleeing famine and poverty. They became the second-largest immigrant group to come to the state, and they acquired influence well beyond their numbers. The first hospitals, schools and asylums in the area were established by Irish nuns. Irish laborers laid the tracks and ran the trains that transported crops to market. Kate Shelley became a national heroine when she saved a passenger train from plunging off a bridge. The Sullivan family became the symbol of sacrifice when they lost their five sons in World War II. Author Timothy Walch details these stories and more on the history and influence of the Irish in the Heartland.

The Crowley Family Ireland to Iowa
The Crowley Family Ireland to Iowa

Author: Marian Crowley Chamberlain

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13:

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The history of one Irish family who left County Cork during the famine years, came to America where they started a new life, and planted their roots on the prairie of Iowa.

Irish Lowrys and Greenfields - Iowa Pioneers 1842-1945
Irish Lowrys and Greenfields - Iowa Pioneers 1842-1945

Author: Marcia R. Roy

Publisher:

Published: 2016-08-28

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780997507904

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This is the enchanting story of Irish Famine survivors, Robert and Sarah Greenfield Lowry, who immigrated to America. Their migration took them from Washington D.C., to New Jersey, to Sangamon and McLean counties in Illinois, and then on to Pocahontas and Humboldt counties in northwestern Iowa. There, they homesteaded and lived out their dreams of owning land. From western County Down, their pioneering journey of over one hundred years is documented with over 900 sourced illustrations, and over 1000 endnotes, including excerpts from collateral family journals from 1875-1942. The portraits, photographs, maps, sketches, and digital images of transcribed documents augment their tale, synergizing for the reader the story of these Irish Iowa Pioneers. How they faced the hazards, hardships, struggles and trials of the early settlements of Iowa, overcome through sheer perseverance and Irish tenacity, is their lasting legacy.

Iowa Letters
Iowa Letters

Author: Johannes Stellingwerff

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 9780802826688

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Stellingwerff (Free U. of Amsterdam) and Swierenga (history, Hope College, Holland) present an expanded edition of the original Dutch text published under the title Amsterdamse Emigranten (Buijten & Schipperheijn, 1976). The text features some 215 immigrant letters relating to the midwestern frontier, from archives and private holdings on both side

The Quiet Journey
The Quiet Journey

Author: Joe Millard

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-12

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0595465706

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The Quiet Journey is one person's life story told in amusing and authentic memoirs from 1936 until 2000. The author, writing to his grandchildren, shares candid childhood stories about Saturday afternoon movies, reading contests, and threshing runs. The memoirs capture a glimpse of attending a one room rural school, growing up on a farm, and living without electricity. Older readers may recall their own memories of catching and killing a rooster for Sunday dinner, or playing fox and geese in the snow. Others may identify with the author as he tells of his first date and learning how to dance. A few may even remember the surprises that awaited them at college. Those who served in the navy during the 1950s may have experienced challenging shore patrol duty in places like Olongapo, Philippines, or visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. In addition, former sailors may remember some of their more amusing experiences when at sea. All of these experiences are captured in The Quiet Journey, along with humorous and challenging experiences of teaching in Urbana, Postville, Story City, and Dubuque, Iowa. However, everyone reading The Quiet Journey, will sense the importance of the second half of the twentieth century.