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Bingham, Helen M. (Helen Maria) / History of Green County, Wisconsin
(1877)
New Glarus, pp. [247]-[258]
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NEW GLARUS. In July, I845, four men, Armstrong, Greenwood, Slater, and Jackson by name, had claims in what is now ,called New Glarus. There was not a single inhabitant there who owned the place on which he lived; but the time had come when the long waiting of the unoccupied township was to be rewarded. Here was to be shown, as it was to be shown in no other township in the county, how the superfluous and poverty-stricken children of the old word are transformed in the United States into prosperous and useful citizens. Early in 1845 the Emigration Association of Glarus determined to re- lieve the- crowded population of that canton by send- ing a colony to the United States, and Fridolin Streiff and Nicholas Duerst were delegated to come in advance of the colony and select a place for the settlement. They left Switzerland March 8, 1845. At the conclu- sion of a long voyage they were met in New York by friends of the society, and on the I ith of May they started with Joshua Frey of Pennsylvania, on their search for a home for the colony. They arrived at Chicago the morning of the 19th of May, and here the
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