Swedish Immigrants In Lincolns Time
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Swedish Immigrants In Lincolns Time By NELS HOKANSON With a. Foreword by CARL SANDBURG NEW YORK AND LONDON Harper Brothers Publishers I - T- - Swedish Settlements in Illinois prior to 1860 with routes traveled bv Lincoln FOREWORD By CARL SANDBURG WHO was the first Big Swede to land in America The answer is one of many odd facts fished up from obscurity and presented in this book. His name was John Printz and he weighed four hundred pounds and served as the governor of the first Swedish colony in North America and the colonists didnt like him so very well and when the government over at Stockholm refused to send him the troops that he asked for he packed up and headed right home for Sweden. So he was not much of a Big Swede after all. Mention is thus made of Printz as one example of the many personalities that give this book what is termed reader interest. Besides personages of importance whose names stand as markers of movements or periods, the author puts a special lighting on one human drift, the flowing line of one breed of people from their birthland to the American Union of States during the generation of Abraham Lincoln. The Olsons, Nelsons, Larsons, Johnsons, Knutsons, Danielsons, Andersons, Lindquists, Sea stroms, Hasselqvists, Obergs, Viborgs, Seastedts of no par ticular distinction but as a mass having their share in the making of the America that shaped its destiny toward a leading role among world powers. To what extent did Swedes settle in the southern slave states and in what proportion did they become owners of slaves And how did it come about that something like 99 per cent of the Swedish voters in the North became Republicans and cast their ballots for Lincoln And how did this preponderance in the States of the midwest and the northwest affect the portentous national election of 1860 To what extent did the Swedes enlist in the Union armies serving under Lincoln What significant figures and worthy fighters of Swedish blood came to view during the war
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