WHERE THEY CAME FROM IN RUSSIA; HOW THEY CAME OVER; AND WHERE THEY SETTLED IN AMERICA.

When the new military law of 1/13/1874 took effect, the colonists (some 3,000) held a meeting and chose five delegates to travel to America to explore the land being offered to immigrants wishing to settle in America. President Lincoln had signed The Homestead Act in 1862, giving 160 acres of free land to them upon their promise to become American citizen's. The delegation consisted of B. Brungardt of Herzog; Peter Leiker of Obermonjour; Jacob Ritter of Luzern; Peter Stoecklein of Zug; and Anton Wasinger of Schoenchen. Mr. Brungardt declined to go, and Nicholas Schamne of Graf was appointed in his place. Upon their return with favorable consensus of the new land, they began preparations for their journey to, yet another new country.

With Nicholas Schamne as their guide, a large group of colonists left Herzog, Neu-Obermonjour, and Graf, arriving in Bremen by way of Tambow, Koslow, Grijasi, Smolensk, Witebak, Wershbolow, Eydtkuhnen, and Berlin. Their ship was the Ohio of the North German Lloyd. The voyage took 21 days, landing them in Baltimore on 11/23/1875. Nicholas Schamne had made an agreement with the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe, to purchase land for two dollars an acre on the plains where Herzog was founded and where Victoria, Kansas is presently located.

The following are surnames that I received information on concerning those who emigrated from MARIENTAL around August of 1876:

By route of HAMBURG-NEW YORK, settling in MUNJOR, Kansas (no ship listed:

    Nicholaus Eberle (family of 6)

    Peter Gross (5)

    Mathias Rohr (4)

    Peter Rohr (4)

Leaving SARATOV in October, going through HAMBURG, arriving in LEIBENTHAL, Kansas about January 1st of 1877

    John Rohr (5)

Leaving HERZOG on 8/20/1878 on the ship LEIZIG, landing at CASTLE GARDEN, and arriving in MUNJOR, Kansas on 9/15/1878:

    John Ernst (3)

    Adam Ernst (8)

    Joseph Gassmann (11)

    Lawrence Herrmann (10)

    Andrew Korbe (11)

    Peter Pfannensteil (11)

On 10/30/1888, from Mariental, Russia to Ellis County, Kansas:

    Anton Kinderknecht

There is much work to be done on this page, I have such a small list of those immigrating from MARIENTAL, RUSSIA. All help is appreciated.

This most interesting and informative web page contains many surnames of "our people" can be found at:
The Golden Jubilee of German-Russian Settlements of Ellis and Rush Counties, Kansas 1926

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