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California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. [3] More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. [4]
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed]. More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio. Several thousand also fought for the Confederacy.
Other ethnicities, including Finnish-Americans [9] and German-Americans [10] were also lynched occasionally. At least six law officers were killed trying to stop lynch mobs, three of whom succeeded at the cost of their own lives, including Deputy Sheriff Samuel Joseph Lewis in 1882, [11] and two law officers in 1915 in South Carolina. [12]
Milwaukee and its suburbs have many festivals devoted to its German heritage and history including Oktoberfest and German Fest. The genesis of German Fest occurred when Mayor Henry Maier challenged the local German-American community during a speech on May 20, 1980, at the 20th Anniversary of the German American National Congress (DANK) to organize a German festival.
Date Person(s) Age Missing from Circumstances Refs. 1920 Homer Lemay: 6 Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. : Lemay disappeared in 1920, and on 8 March 1921 the body of an unidentified boy was found murdered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and nicknamed Little Lord Fauntleroy.
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [7]
Milwaukee in 1898 Milwaukee in 1912 Milwaukee slums in 1936 Milwaukee in 1955 During the first half of the 20th century, Milwaukee was the hub of the socialist movement in the United States . Milwaukeeans elected three Socialist mayors during this time: Emil Seidel (1910–1912), Daniel Hoan (1916–1940), and Frank Zeidler (1948–1960), and ...
Publishers (people) of German-language newspapers in the United States (16 P) Pages in category "German-American history" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 278 total.