Seventy-fifth Anniversary Souvenir Directory
Author: First Presbyterian Church (Glenolden, Pa.)
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 27
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Author: First Presbyterian Church (Glenolden, Pa.)
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 27
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: First Presbyterian Church (Port Kennedy, Pa.)
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Horbury. Urban District Council (England)
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Published: 1970
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Historical Records Survey (New York, N.Y.)
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Published: 1940
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert P. Swierenga
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2002-11-07
Total Pages: 940
ISBN-13: 9780802813114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow at least 250,000 strong, the Dutch in greater Chicago have lived for 150 years "below the radar screens" of historians and the general public. Here their story is told for the first time. In Dutch Chicago Robert Swierenga offers a colorful, comprehensive history of the Dutch Americans who have made their home in the Windy City since the mid-1800s. The original Chicago Dutch were a polyglot lot from all social strata, regions, and religions of the Netherlands. Three-quarters were Calvinists; the rest included Catholics, Lutherans, Unitarians, Socialists, Jews, and the nominally churched. Whereas these latter Dutch groups assimilated into the American culture around them, the Dutch Reformed settled into a few distinct enclaves -- the Old West Side, Englewood, and Roseland and South Holland -- where they stuck together, building an institutional infrastructure of churches, schools, societies, and shops that enabled them to live from cradle to grave within their own communities. Focusing largely but not exclusively on the Reformed group of Dutch folks in Chicago, Swierenga recounts how their strong entrepreneurial spirit and isolationist streak played out over time. Mostly of rural origins in the northern Netherlands, these Hollanders in Chicago liked to work with horses and go into business for themselves. Picking up ashes and garbage, jobs that Americans despised, spelled opportunity for the Dutch, and they came to monopolize the garbage industry. Their independence in business reflected the privacy they craved in their religious and educational life. Church services held in the Dutch language kept outsiders at bay, as did a comprehensive system of private elementary and secondary schools intended to inculcate youngsters with the Dutch Reformed theological and cultural heritage. Not until the world wars did the forces of Americanization finally break down the walls, and the Dutch passed into the mainstream. Only in their churches today, now entirely English speaking, does the Dutch cultural memory still linger. Dutch Chicago is the first serious work on its subject, and it promises to be the definitive history. Swierenga's lively narrative, replete with historical detail and anecdotes, is accompanied by more than 250 photographs and illustrations. Valuable appendixes list Dutch-owned garbage and cartage companies in greater Chicago since 1880 as well as Reformed churches and schools. This book will be enjoyed by readers with Dutch roots as well as by anyone interested in America's rich ethnic diversity.
Author: Horbury Urban District Council
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Published: 1970
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Indiana State Library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 544
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Boston Public Library
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1786
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