Author: David Leonard Trexler
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ISBN: 9781935688266
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Trexler Family History begins with the story of Peter Trexler (Dreshler) and family who left Germany for America in 1709 during the Palatine Immigration, eventually settling near Allentown, Pennsylvania. The first seven chapters describe the circumstances that led to their immigration, their difficult travels to London, voyage to New York, and labors along the Hudson River, before finally moving to Pennsylvania. Chapters eight to fourteen (142 pages) focus on the history of the branch of Trexlers who eventually settled in Jordan, New York, where Charles L. Trexler supervised a Cement company. There are eleven appendices of general interest, including additional history of the German immigration, Trexler Cemetery (located in Trexlertown, PA), the story of Trexler Mills and Furnaces, the famous entrepreneur and philanthropist General Harry Clay Trexler, and Places of Interest in Pennsylvania and New York State relevant to Trexler history. Approximately half of the book (150 pages) provides information for anyone interested in the Trexlers who initially settled in Pennsylvania. The book includes numerous maps and photos and a list of libraries around the country that carry a more expansive (but, out of print) book on Trexler genealogy. Trexler Family History is a fascinating narrative history and useful resource for Trexler descendants researching their family roots." --
Author: James L. Meng
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469197049
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 731
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James L. Meng is a retired labor relations arbitrator who was born in the mid-American steel town of Granite City, Illinois. His parents were born in Freeburg and Newton, Illinois and were active civic leaders in their community. In his formative years, James met several occasions that comprised a very interesting youth. After graduating from college, he joined the Missouri Air National Guard where he was awarded the Airman’s Medal for Valor. Afterwards he continued his education for a Master degree. He married his lovely wife, Beverly, and had two children and four grandchildren. While cleaning out his basement, he discovered several inherited boxes containing family pictures and documents. Although not a genealogist, which he says with a great deal of pride, he fortunately decided to share his information with others, both the born and unborn. This book is written to reflect the lives and personalities of real people – not just the genealogical statistics of born on date, married on date, had child one, two, three and died on this date. These were real people who realized and conquered a variety of life challenges in Germany and in their newly adopted home in America. As a nation of immigrants, we should not let their contributions be forgotten...
Author: John Trexler Warren
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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John Peter Trexler (Drechsler) came from Germany to America in 1709.
Author: Morton Luther Montgomery
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
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Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Author: Morton Luther Montgomery
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Category : Berks County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Category : Schuylkill County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Author: Michael C. Steiner
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806148950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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“Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism,” Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who explore the lives and works of sixteen progressive western intellectuals, authors, and artists, ranging from nationally prominent figures such as John Steinbeck and Carey McWilliams to equally influential, though less well known, figures such as Angie Debo and Américo Paredes. Although they never constituted a unified movement complete with manifestos or specific goals, the thinkers and leaders examined in this volume raised voices of protest against racial, environmental, and working-class injustices during the Depression era that reverberate in the twenty-first century. Sharing a deep affection for their native and adopted places within the West, these individuals felt a strong sense of avoidable and remediable wrong done to the land and the people who lived upon it, motivating them to seek the root causes of social problems and demand change. Regionalists on the Left shows also that this radical regionalism in the West often took urban, working-class, and multicultural forms. Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora Babb, and Joe Jones. Tracing the relationship between politics and place across the West, Regionalists on the Left highlights a significant but neglected strain of western thought and expression.
Author: J. Milton Furey
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Category : Clinton County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Charles Rhoads Roberts
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Category : Lehigh County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 878
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Author: William Levi Gaston
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Category : Custer County (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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