Between 1838 and the early 1890s, German peasant farmers from the Kingdom of Hanover made their way to Lafayette County, Missouri, to form a new community centered on the town of Concordia. Their story has much to tell us about the American immigrant experience— and about how newcomers were caught up in the violence that swept through their adoptive home.Robert Frizzell grew up near Concordia, and in this first book-length history of the German settlement, he chronicles its life and times during those formative years. Founded by Hanoverian Friedrich Dierking— known as "Dierking the Comforter" for the aid he gave his countrymen— the Concordia settlement blossomed from 72 households in 1850 to 375 over the course of twenty years. Frizzell traces that growth as he examines the success of early agricultural efforts, but he also tells how the community strayed from the cultural path set by its freethinker founder to become a center of religious conservatism. Drawing on archival material from both sides of the Atlantic, Frizzell offers a compelling account for scholars and general readers alike, showing how Concordia differed from other German immigrant communities in America. He also explores the conditions in Hanover— particularly the village of Esperke, from which many of the settlers hailed— that caused people to leave, shedding new light on theological, political, and economic circumstances in both the Old World and the New. When the Civil War came, the antislavery Hanoverians found themselves in the Missouri county with the greatest number of slaves, and the Germans supported the Union while most of their neighbors sympathized with Confederate guerrillas. Frizzell tells how the notorious "Bloody Bill" Anderson attacked the community three times, committing atrocities as gruesome as any recorded in the state— then how the community flourished after the war and even bought out the farmsteads of former slaveholders.Frizzell's account challenges many historians' assumptions about German motives for immigration and includes portraits of families and individuals that show the high price in toil and blood required to meet the challenges of making a home in a new land. Independent Immigrants reveals the untold story of these newcomers as it reveals a little-known aspect of the Civil War in Missouri.
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Baptist Church consist of minute books of the congregation and the sister society and the constitution of the church The records are in German A translation of the records is included in the collection These records are part of the German Heritage Archives DONOR INFORMATION The church records were loaned to the University of Missouri for copying by Hazel J Payne on July 14 1993 Accession No 5322 The records are part of the German Heritage Archives HISTORICAL SKETCH The Congregation of Baptized Christians of Concordia Lafayette County Missouri was organized in December 1850 when Cahl Kresse came as a missionary The first baptism happened on 18 April 1851 and the first meeting occurred on 13 July 1851 SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The Concordia Baptist Church records consist of three volumes dating from 1861 through 1922 Volume 1 the Protokoll Buch is a minute book dating from 1861 through 1922 The minutes of the Sister Society dating from 1898 through 1922 are in volume 2 Volume 3 consists of the constitution of the congregation and lists of members The translation of the records was done by Dr Adolf E Schroeder Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Missouri Columbia as part of his tenure as Scholar in Residence at Concordia made possible by a grant from the Missouri Humanities Council to the Concordia Area Heritage Society for 1993 1994 The translation was recorded on audiotape and was then transcribed by Hazel J Payne The transcription of the volumes is included on the microfilm and also available in hard copy in the reading room FOLDER LIST v 1 Protokoll Buch 1861 1922 v 2 Sister Society Minute book 1898 1922 v 3 Constitution and lists of members f 1 Protokoll Buch 1861 1885 translation f 2 Protokoll Buch 1886 1922
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