The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-10-07


as In the present, fond OF good dinners, etc.
The member In charge Of the bill was inyi-
ted to dinner party TO meet foreign no.
bleman. Well, duty was probably not as
high then on champagne as IL 10 now. Inc
Senate had only twenty-four hours OF life
before adjournment. Six hours of this
the Senator devoted to dinner. etc.
His chance was lost when he returned to
his seat. and with 1t Germantown
lost forever its chance Of being the capital
OF the nation; and while we may regret
that our forefathers lost the privilege Of
this great honor, yet we may rejoice that
our own State gave portion Of its terri
tory for the purpose, and we may pride our
selves on having what Is TO De the most
magnificent city in the world as part OF
our own territory. There are many other
Germautowns in the United states which
are curious and suggestive as showing the
influence Of Germans IN America.
THEIR PRoGHNITORs.
IL appears that our progenitors never
took very well TO the New England states.
Their laws were not as liberal as IN other
parts Of the country, but in fI4l colony OF
Germans started from Mannheim for the
State of Maine by invitation Of its Governor,
and under the leadership Of a German mer-
chant from Boston named Waldo they
founded colony and named II Valdez
burg NOW marlborough, in honor OF Mr..
| Waldo, who was the cause OF their coming,
| and later their benefact0r; and five years
later these people took up arms for their
new homes, and when the war broke out
between England and France they organ
lied a company under command OF their
preacher, Johannes Timer, Waldo COM
mandng regiment, and one Of the c0un-
ties OF the State 10 named after him. Frank
tort, on the Kennebec, was settled in lI5l,
and Leidedsdorf, Mass, las Friend Hen
ninghausen, to whom | am under obliga-
tons, says) is significant name. In 1877
| the church service in Marlborough was
still kept up in German.
| In the great State of New York, whose
| first settlers were the Dutch, these were
reinforced by the Germans, and in ITO we
lind ten ship-loads Of German Immigrants
| arriving at one time in New York. The
Schoharie and Mohawk Valleys were settled
by them, and their descendants are living
| there to-day.
MARYLAND had some Germans as early as
| 1860, and later they populated Frederick
county. In 1I4S "A German was brewing
| beer another sold it; one was an alderman
and one physician. In 1875, when Baltl'
| more was made 0ity, it had among the
first aldermen three Germans.
IN NORTH CAROLINA.
In December. l7l0, there landed in North
Carolina, at the junction Of the Neuse and
French rivers, CSC German and Swiss immi-
grants, In two ships, under the leadership
Of Christopher Graaiienfred, a Swiss, and
named their city New Bern, after his birth.
place, Berf,-SwitZerland. Another settle
ment Of Germans was made on ladkin
river, called Buffalo Creek settlement, and
exists to this day. Aud as early as 1865 we
lind n German named Peter Fabian took |
part in an expedition 10 explore South Caro- |
lima. In November, 1852, 40 German and |
Swiss arrived under Peter Perry, and
founded Perrysburg, on the Savannah. A
year after 200 men came 10 strengthen
their colony, and another colony was
formed on the Edisto river. In 1Ii2 the silk |
industry was inaugurated by them. In |
1912 Germans also made a settlement at ST. |
Quinn's Island. In 1IlJ the Germans OF |
Charleston organized military company |
the "Deutsche Fuslere" German Fusi. !
leers), which company is in existence at |
this day, and have performed valiant SER |
vice whenever called upon. In March, |
1874, the first organized German colony |
came to Georgia from Salzburg, Austria, 1
where the Protestants were not tolerated l
They left their homes by the thousands, 1
and the Georgia colonists came IN the ship |
Perrysburg, and on. their arrival |
In Savannah they were well re-
ceived by the entire population amid
a salute Of cannon. They found 1
already settled there some Germans, and /
among them twelve Jewish families, and l
may add here that the city Of Savannah to-
day has large class Of German citizens |
wAo are influential, honored and respected;
that they comprise the leading business OF
the prosperous city; that the same warm i
hearted, genial hospitality which greeted /
the first colony that arrived there still ex-l
lists. and that German is to-day the Mayor \
Of that city.
In iIl7 about 1000 immigrants from the |
suffering Palatinate landed near Mobile, |
Ala, but numbers being killed out by fever |
and terrible hardships, the survivors set |
tied opposite New Orleans, where they have |
nourished, and have since added to the |
wealth and prosperity Of that tiourshing |
city.
At the time when Texas still belonged to |
Mexico we lind German colonies there. In |
ISIS they founded a settlement on the Colo |
RADIO river, which was the most exposed |
part Of the white settlers, and they suffered |
very much from the Indians. New Brum- |
fels Is mother German settlement, founded |
in 1874, and the German language is mostly |
used there to this day.
In 1875 Johanne Tanner settled with his |
family about twenty miles below where |
Cincinnati now stands. His two sons were |
stolen by the Indians. He was bunker, |
and some other Dunkers from Pennsylva- |
MIA followed him and settled there. The |
news Of the fertile lands they had found |
soon induced other immigrants to follow, |
and thus many Germans found their way |
into that State. In 1903 a colony from Vir- |
GINA settled where the city of Covington is
now situated.
The first German in Ohio Of any note was |
German Pole, Anton Sadowsky. Before |
lbs he had a trading post on the south side |
of Lake Erie where the sandusky river |
(named after HIM empties into the lake. |
The great state of Ohio, with its magnh- |
cent cities, is largely built up by Germans,
who added to their prosperity and wealth.
IN NEWER sTATBs.
| will not detain you TO give an account
Of the Germans in the newer States, as that
is modern history and familiar to all, and of
how they have hocked in vast numbers TO
the States Of Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, and other Western
and northwestern States. Will not dwell
upon the rapidity with which those States
have been developed, or enumerate what
magnificent cities have been erected, and
which are in great measure due to the
thrift, enterprise, and energy of German
immigrants, for we find them first and fore
most in everything which tends 10 make
those States great, whether in agricultural
pursuits, manufacturing enterprises, min
eral development, or the cultivation Of the
arts and sciences. We can go to the great
state OF California, where the Ger
man pioneer Suter went in 1888 from
Mexico with some German comrades over
the Rocky Mountains into California, and
| established a colony on the Sacramento
river which he called New Helvetia, now
Sacramento city. The Mexican Governor
gave him citizens rights and title to all the
lands occupied, and made him commander
on the northern boundary. suter after
wards took sides with the United States in
| the Mexican war, and rendered valuable
services to our government. ] will not
dwell upon the settlement OF Germans in
| this State. as the ground has been fully
covered by my worthy co-laborer In his
German Grafton in a much ADLER and more
succinct manner than could hope to do,
| hut for the benefit OF our English-speaking
friends, who probably could not understand
| all of friend Schurichts GRAFTON. will say
| that the first organized settlement was made
| in TIA at Germania, on the Rappahannock,
under the auspices OF Governor SpotswOOd