Polish Pioneers in Illinois 1818-1850
Polish Pioneers in Illinois 1818-1850

Author: James D. Lodesky

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2010-02-24

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 146282188X

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This book attempts to discover the names of the first Polish settlers in Illinois, when they came to Illinois and their stories when possible. Some left complete stories about themselves while others only a very small amount. The time period starts in 1818, the year Illinois became a state and ends in 1850. I found much more information between 1818 and 1850 then I thought I would so I cut the book off at 1850. The Polish settlers are divided into five different categories. 1. Polish Political Exiles from Russia. 2. Polish emigrants from mainly German occupied Poland. 3. Polish Jews. 4. People of Polish descent, those persons with a Polish ancestor. 5. Emigrants from an undetermined county whose last names look Polish.

The German Church on the American Frontier
The German Church on the American Frontier

Author: Carl E. Schneider

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-03-02

Total Pages: 653

ISBN-13: 1606082183

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Since its original release in 1939, Carl Schneider's The German Church on the American Frontier has been the premier published resource on the unique "Evangelischer Kirchenverein des Westens" (Evangelical Church Society of the West), 1840-66, which later assumed a wider denominational identity as the German Evangelical Synod of North America, the church of the Niebuhr family. Known eventually as the Evangelical Synod of North America, the group's ecumenical and irenic heritage contributed to mergers that resulted in the Evangelical and Reformed Church, 1934-1957, and thereafter in the United Church of Christ.