The North German Connection
The North German Connection

Author: Allen William Bernard

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13:

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Johann Heinrich Ahlers was born 17 May 1818 in Visbek, Oldeburg, Germany. His parents were Johann Hermann Ahlers and Maria Elizabeth Nemann. He married Maria A. Heilman (1828-1900), daughter of Bernard Heilman and Anna Marie Heilman, in 1845 in Cincinnati, Ohio. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Ohio and Illinois.

The Descendants of Daniel Kane who Froze in the Snow in Minnesota in 1870
The Descendants of Daniel Kane who Froze in the Snow in Minnesota in 1870

Author: Corki Nelson Haff

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Daniel Kane, Sr. (1810-1870) was born at Londonderry, County Derry, Northern Ireland. He married Catherine Dixon and four of their eight children were born there. They emigrated to Canada in 1846 during the time of the Great Potato Famine and settled in Huron Co., Ontario. They lived there for over twenty years. Four more children were born in McKillop Twp., Ontario. Later, family members moved to Minnesota and settled at Melrose, in Stearns Co. in 1869. Daniel died at Reno, Minn. when he froze to death in a blizzard.

The Life and Times of a World War I Soldier
The Life and Times of a World War I Soldier

Author: Clyde Cremer

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 1491729791

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Julius Holthaus, a humble American farm boy, went to France to help fill the depleted ranks of the Allies in America's largest battle of World War I, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He had no idea what he was getting into. The fight would involve more than a million American doughboys, span forty-seven days, and result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people in one of the bloodiest battle in American military history. Countless books focus on great military leaders, war heroes, and battle tactics, but one must look at war on a human scale to truly understand its toll. That understanding comes through examining the life and diary of Holthaus. Author Clyde Cremer explores them in detail, supplementing the diary's information with the insights he gleaned during six years of research. This history follows a single soldier from rural Idaho and Iowa through his enlistment, training, and final trauma in the dark, disenchanted forest of the Argonne. Filled with facts and historical anecdotes, this could be the story of many of the members of the American Expeditionary Forces sent overseas in World War I. Their names are not listed in the history books, but they all answered their country's call and should be remembered.