ST. CHARLES COUNTY HISTORY
By Dorris Keeven-Franke
Author: Dorris Keeven-Franke
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In the decade of the 1830s alone over 120,000 Germans immigrated to America, and one-third of those settled in Missouri. Those are the emigrants that made it. Thousands would not survive the journey at sea or the difficult overland trek westward. Nicholas Krekel: “In the fall of the year 1832 we sailed from Bremen. It…
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Two hundred years ago, those living here in the Saint Charles District of the Territory of Louisiana, did not know that our young United States had just officially gone to war for the very first time. Without today’s internet, blogs and tweets, they were totally unaware that the House of Representatives had hotly debated the…
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Four generations, left to right: Mishey Edwards, Mrs. Mary Stephenson, Dorothy Edwards. Mary Stephenson is holding her oldest child, Margaret, and the little boy in front is Albert, her sister’s son. Photo from the O’Fallon Missouri Historical Society – Mary Stephenson Collection.
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