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AMELIA M. BARTH

1843-1921
Born: Ingelheim am Rhein, Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Died: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA

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  • Birth: (see Death Cert.)

  • Arrival

  • Potato Blight: The Blight Occured All Across Europe.

  • Residence

  • National Event: Civil War

  • Residence: Age:26 And Lived With Her Sister, Bertha (19) At 517 --------street, Chicago, Illinois. Her Occupation Is Listed As Dressmaker. Place Of Birth Listed As Prussia. Bertha's Place Of Birth Is Listed As Wisco

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  • Residence: Age 77; Occupation: House Work; Street Address: 6138 S. May St., Chicago, IL; FHL Film No. 1852953

  • Residence: 3739 Dearborn St.

  • Death: Death Age: 77

  • Burial: Oakwood Cemetery

  • Story: Reasons For Emigration

    <span>Who, What, Where, When, and Why Did They Leave? </span><br><span><p>America has experienced a number of surges in immigrants arriving on its doorstep&mdash;from all over the world&mdash;but what about the countries that faced periods of mass <em>emigration </em>when their people departed for America? </p><p><strong>1. Ireland </strong><br>1847&ndash;60: potato famine <br>1881&ndash;90: continued crop failure; political and religious contention. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><strong>2. England </strong><br>1600s: overcrowding; excess population sent to New World <br>1870, 1881&ndash;90: overcrowding and poverty; skilled laborers seeking better opportunities <p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>3. Italy </strong><br>1891&ndash;1910: low wages, high taxes, poverty; desire to own land </p><p><strong>4. France </strong><br>1851: political refugees of 1848 Revolution </p><p><strong>5. East Prussia </strong><br>1871&ndash;80: religious tension as Prussia became part of Germany </p><p><strong>6. Germany </strong><br>1683&ndash;1820: religious persecution, wars, hardships <br>1820&ndash;71: escaping war and military service <br>1843&ndash;59: crop failure, unsuccessful German Revolution (1848) <br>1865&ndash;74: skilled workers transferred to U.S. companies, German Catholics expelled <br>1871&ndash;1914: religious persecution, political unrest </p><p><strong>7. Poland </strong><br>1880&ndash;1914: Jews escaping religious persecution; Poles escaping &ldquo;Russification&rdquo; </p><p><strong>8. Austro-Hungarian Empire </strong><br>1880&ndash;1914: ethnic tension, mandatory military service </p><p><strong>9. Russia </strong><br>1901&ndash;10: violence, riots (pogroms) targeting Gypsies and Jews </p><p><strong>10. Greece </strong><br>Early-mid 1900s: religious persecution </p><p><strong>11. Armenia </strong><br>1901&ndash;10: religious persecution </p><p><strong>12. China </strong><br>mid-1800s: famine, epidemics, repression, civil wars, Gold Rush </p><p><strong>13. Korea </strong><br>Early 1900s: racial tension </p><p><strong>14. Vietnam </strong><br>1975: economic conditions, fall of Saigon </p><p><strong>15. Mexico </strong><br>1980&ndash;present: jobs, economic opportunity </p><p><strong>16. Cuba &amp; Puerto Rico </strong><br>1959&ndash;61: Castro&#39;s revolution <br>1966: Cuban Refugee Act permits more than 400,000 people to enter the United States </p><p><strong>17. Scandinavia </strong><br>1881&ndash;1900: crop failure, unemployment; seeking opportunity </p><p>&nbsp;</p><span>The Year Was 1845 </span><br><span><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">The year was 1845 and in Germany and other parts of Central Europe, floods brought death and devastation. The <em>Alton Telegraph and Democratic Review</em> (Alton, Illinois) of 31 May 1845 reported on the &quot;Frightful Ravages by Flood Throughout Germany.&quot; </font></p><blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 16px; font-style: italic"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">&quot;...The Elbe, the Weser, the Oder, the Danube and their tributaries have over flowed their banks and produced greater desolation than any flood since 1781.--When we bear in mind that the flood of that year was the greatest that had been experienced for a century, or since 1682, we may form some idea of the extent of the calamity.... </font></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px; font-style: italic"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">&quot;...The cause was not an unusual fall of rain, but the sudden melting of immense masses of snow, which the uncommon severity of the winter had caused to accumulate, especially on the mountains in which the rivers of Germany take their rise... </font></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px; font-style: italic"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">&quot;In many places people had taken refuge in the second stories of their houses, and received supplies of ready-cooked victuals, furnished by their more fortunate fellow citizens, in boats. The Mannheim Journal states that nine milk-women, who were bringing their accustomed supplies to that city were drowned in the Necker. </font></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px; font-style: italic"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">&quot;The valley of the Danube, in Bavaria and Austria had suffered immensely, and that of the Moldau, in Bohemia. At Prague, the streets represented as impassable, and thousands of persons are in the most deplorable condition. In some spots the appearance of steamboats was hailed as that of a delivering angel....&quot; </font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">In Ireland, 1845 brought with it the beginning of another disaster--famine. A fungus--Phytophthora infestans--which had spread to Ireland from North America destroyed the crop of 1845. Much of the Irish population had very little land on which to farm and because potatoes produced more food per acre than other crops like wheat, it had become the main staple in the Irish diet. Even in good times, hunger was a problem as there was often a gap between the time that the last of last year&#39;s supply ran out or was no longer edible, and the time when the new crop could be harvested. So when the blight hit in 1845 and again in 1846, the consequences were devastating. </font></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">The United States was growing and in 1845 both Florida and Texas were admitted as states.</font></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; line-height: 16px"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size: 13px">1845 brought national fame to a poet by the name of Edgar Allan Poe with the publication of the well-known poem <em>The Raven</em> in the <em>New York Mirror</em>.</font></p></span></span>

 
 
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