Lehmann family letters, 1796-1881.

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Lehmann family letters, 1796-1881.

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Typed English translations prepared by Mary Flick of letters exchanged among Lehmann family members in Germany and after Friedrich Wilhelm Lehmann's 1826 immigration to America. Reflecting the activities and views of educated Germans, the letters concern the courtship of Wilhelm Lehmann and Dora Overhoff; the life of a minister's family in the early nineteenth century; their son Friedrich Wilhelm's travels and education, life while imprisoned for radical student activities, his courtship of Harriet Van Vechten in New York, teaching at the University of Georgia for fifteen years, migration to Dodge County, Wisconsin, in 1847, life as a settler there, and the effects of the Civil War felt in Wisconsin. Letters exchanged between Friedrich Wilhelm's family and his sister Julia and her husband Matthias Holterhoff in Germany reflect the rise of nationalist sentiment there, the strong economic ties between Germans on both continents, and liberal German attitudes toward religion, politics, and family life.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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