Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-10-07
FRUITS OF WORK OF
LAST FOUR CENTURIES

Coincident with Los Angeles, German
Americans all over the United States eel
ebrated yesterday.
The present-day German immigration
may be traced directly to the success of
the earlier colonies. of which history says
there were several attempts, not all sue
cessful, in past centuries.
| Not long after the discovery of Amer
| lea, in the year 1928, the Welsers, COM
mercial house of Augsburg, Bavaria, re-
ceived a grant of land in South America
and founded the colony of Weiserland,
part of the Venezuela of today. Soon
the Fuggers of Augsburg sent also an
expedition to the New World and es-
tablished on the Pacific coast of South
America colony, extending from the
Straits of Magellan to Peru. But one
phillip Won Hutton, nephew of Luther
companion, Ulrich Won Hutton, and Georg
Hohenmuth of Speyer, being the most
notable ones among its colonists) per-
ished during the religious conflicts which
arose; the others failed, having been too
remote to attract colonists.
Another colonizing experiment. this
time in North America, was also unsuc-
cessful.
In South Carolina
Under the patronage of Coligny, Alsa-
tan and Hessian Protestants settled at
Port Royal, S. C., in 1862. Their colony
was soon destroyed by hostile natives.
Capt John Smith. whose memory was
recently honored at the jamestown ex-
position, brought with him German i'm
migrants whose superiority as workmen
above others he had recognized while
visiting Germany.
Among the Dutch colonists of New
Netherlands were also Germans, and in
May 1926, came to Manhattan island
another party of German settlers from
Vessel on the Rhine.
Through Usselinx, a Swede, Gustavus
Adolphus became interested in colonial
ton in America, and even his death in
the battle of Luetzen could not stop the
progress of this enterprise. The founda-
ton of a Swedish colony on the Della
ware followed and the close relations of
Germany and Sweden during and after
the Thirty Years " war brought it
about that German settlers were attract
ed by this Swedish colony in America.
Penn Interested
Up to the year 1872, however. there was
no lasting German colony founded in
North America.
william Penn visited in the years 1911
and 1877 Germany and aroused Its in
terest.
Subsequently JACOB felner OIL Creleiu
visited America, and on the 10th Ct
March, 1858, Penn conveyed to him and
others 5000 acres of land each.
These events and the foundation of a
colonization company at Frankfort fired
the enthusiasm and among others, a
Young jurist, Francis Daniel Pastorius,
decided to emigrate to the province of
Penn.
He sailed on the ship America before
the Crefelders did and was among those
who saluted on the 9Th of October, 1888,
the arrival of the Crefelders on the ship
Concord.
The Natal Day
With the landing of the Crefelders the
first organized German settlers in Penn
sylvania begins permanent German col
onization in this county. and so the 9Th
of October becomes the natal day of Ger
man enterprise in North America
The foundation of the modest settle
ment of Germantown by Pastorius fol-
lowed. or those other streams of immi-
grafton up to 1924 is the most noteworthy
that of the Palatines in 1708 and 1903,
who came from London to Pennsylvania
and finally settled down in the fertile
land of the headwaters of the Swatara.
These German colonists brought with
them their trades and cabinetmakers,
clockmakers, workers in iron. potters,
were almost exclusively German.