Small Town Germans: The Germans of Lawrence, Kansas, from 1854 to 1918
by Katja Rampelmann
Masters Thesis, University of Kansas
© Copyright 1993
This Site Supported by a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Abstract | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Conclusion | Appendix | Bibliography

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Unpublished Material

Kansas Collection, University of Kansas. "The History of the Lawrence Turnverein." [by Henry Albach].
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Other Research Material

Lawrence City Directory and Business Guide, 1860-1918.
The General Statutes of the Territory of Kansas. s.l.: John Brady, Public Printer, 1855.
Book of Minutes of the Leaders and Officers and Congregational meeting of Eudora and Captain Creek and Lawrence of the German Methodist Church September 19, 1892 - August 12, 1902. In private hands of Irma Schaake Padderson, Lawrence, Kansas.
Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, Court House. Deed Records of the City of Lawrence.
United States, Bureau of Immigration. Annual Report of the Commissioner General of Immigration, 1892-1918.
United States. German Alien Registration Records of Lawrence, Kansas, 1917-18.
United States, Bureau of Census. Federal Census, Washington, D.C., 1860-1920.
United States, Bureau of Census. Kansas State Census , Washington, D.C., 1865-1915.
Tax Records of the City of Lawrence, Kansas, 1860-1918.
Rowell, George Prebury. American Newspaper Directory. New York: G.P Rowell & Co, 1869-1904
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Newspaper Articles

Die Germania, September 23, 1880.
Die Germania, October 28, 1880.
Die Germania, December 23, 1880.
Die Germania, January 10, 1884.
Die Germania, May 22, 1884.
Die Germania, January 21, 1886.
Die Germania, March 17, 1887.
Die Germania, December 27, 1888.
Die Germania, April l4, 1889. Local News.
Die Germania, February 21, 1889. Local News.
Die Germania, April 4, 1889.
Die Germania, April 11, 1889.
Die Germania, May 16, 1889.
Die Germania, May 18, 1889.
Die Germania, June 1889.
Die Lawrence Germania, October 6, 1916.
Die Lawrence Germania, December 18, 1917.
Die Lawrence Germania, August 30, 1818.
Kansas Daily Tribune, November 30, 1867.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, July 20, 1879.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, July 22, 1879.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, January 7, 1918.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, January 14, 1818.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, February 4, 1918.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, February 7, 1918.
Lawrence Daily Journal World, June 20, 1918.
Historic Times, September, 26, 1891.
Republican Daily Journal, April 18, 1869.
Republican Daily Journal, April 23, 1869.
Republican Daily Journal, April 28, 1869.
Republican Daily Journal, May 2, 1869.
Topeka Capital, March 11, 1919.
The Topeka Commonwealth, July 23, 1881.
The Topeka Commonwealth, June 5, 1883.
University Daily Kansan, December 4, 1979.

Abstract | Introduction | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Conclusion | Appendix | Bibliography