. History of New Haven County, Connecticut . in agymnasium of his fatherland. But while his brothers went on through the full university course,George Otto came to America and entered business. He was in theemploy, as bookkeeper, of Osborne & Cheesman, of Ansonia, when heresolved, in 1870, to return to Germany. It was a period of great na-tional excitement, for the German people had just entered into thestruggle of the Franco-Prussian war. Mr. Schneller passed on to spendthe winter in Italy, and arrived in Rome in the week following VictorEmmanuels occupation of the city. He then visited Naple
. History of New Haven County, Connecticut . in agymnasium of his fatherland. But while his brothers went on through the full university course,George Otto came to America and entered business. He was in theemploy, as bookkeeper, of Osborne & Cheesman, of Ansonia, when heresolved, in 1870, to return to Germany. It was a period of great na-tional excitement, for the German people had just entered into thestruggle of the Franco-Prussian war. Mr. Schneller passed on to spendthe winter in Italy, and arrived in Rome in the week following VictorEmmanuels occupation of the city. He then visited Naples, spendingthree months there, and remembers as not the least interesting of hisdiversions the exploration of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii. But the grand review of the German army in Berlin at the close ofthe war with France was soon to occur, and Mr. Schneller hastenedfrom Italy to the capital city of the German empire. There he sawhis victorious countrymen march for several miles between rows ofcannon captured from the
Size: 1630px × 1532px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectnewhave, bookyear1892
