The school physiology journal . settlement. Theywere Mennonites, orQuakers, whose influ-ence was strongly felt inthe state, and was invar-iably exerted on the sideof law and justice. Thiscolony was composedlargely of mechanics whounderstood farming also,men of the middle their leader, DanielPastorius, was said to bethe superior in learningof any man then, or forforty years thereafter,on the continent of Am-erica. Such was the industryof the Germ an townsettlers that in spite ofuntold privations, in one year after their arrivalthey offered for sale at their store in Phila-delphia line
The school physiology journal . settlement. Theywere Mennonites, orQuakers, whose influ-ence was strongly felt inthe state, and was invar-iably exerted on the sideof law and justice. Thiscolony was composedlargely of mechanics whounderstood farming also,men of the middle their leader, DanielPastorius, was said to bethe superior in learningof any man then, or forforty years thereafter,on the continent of Am-erica. Such was the industryof the Germ an townsettlers that in spite ofuntold privations, in one year after their arrivalthey offered for sale at their store in Phila-delphia linen hosiery and cloth which they hadmanufactured out of flax and wool raised bythemselves. They lived quietly and at peace with all courts often adjourned because there wasno business to occupy them. One of the mostserious cases was that of a man who threateneda policeman. A few trifling offences of thiskind are all that the records of Germantownshow for seventeen years. It is difficult, if not impossible to classify the. Ole Bull Germans in this country. They are found inall occupations and in all sections except someparts of the south, which they avoided on ac-count of the unfamiliar crops, hot climate, andslave labor with which they could not cities of Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louisare overwhelmingly German, as are the agricul-tural regions of the Northwest. The timberregions of northern Wisconsin were sought bythese hardy, persevering, and energetic peoplewho were willing to wait for success. Never since the timeof the Puritan Pilgrimshas there been an ele-ment of immigrationcontaining so large anumber of men of edu-cation and rank, menwho had filled high posi-tions in their nativecountry, men who cameto our shores not to seekwealth but to seek liber-ty, as the German im-migrants from 1815 toi860. Some of the latercomers, those from thesouth German provincesespecially, brought onlysuch elements of cultureas inhere in the Prot-estant faith. Many ofthese
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