Table of Contents
Hinrich: Annals of an Immigrant Family 1866-1913 by David Schlichting
Tracing a German immigrant family across
post-Civil War America forming its first American generation.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Introduction 1
Ancestor Families 3
German Parish Registers 5
Part I—From Germany to Wabasha County 11
Chapter 1
The Old Country 13
Chapter 2
Passage to America 27
Chapter 3
Cincinnati 43
Chapter 4
Milwaukee 53
Part II—Wabasha County, The Early Years, 1869–1879 63
Chapter 5
The Land and the People 65
Chapter 6
1869–1871 The Schlichtings Arrive in Wabasha County 79
Chapter 7
1872–1874 Minnesota Pioneer Farming 91
Chapter 8
1875–1877 A Time of Choice 105
Chapter 9
1878 and 1879 The Oregon Solution 115
Part III—Hinrich and Caroline 127
Chapter 10
Truebenbach 129
Chapter 11
Dakota Territory 141
Chapter 12
Family Foundations 159
Part IV—The American Generation 177
Chapter 13
The Oregon Years 179
Chapter 14
Their Separate Ways 197
Chapter 15
Return to Wabasha County 209
Appendix A 219
Schlichting-Owned Land 219
Appendix B 239
Tabulary Statement 239
Appendix C 243
Jacksonville Lutheran Church Register, Jacksonville, Minnesota 243
Appendix D 263
St. Paul Lutheran Church Register, Sherwood, Oregon 263
Index 287
