Periods of European Emigration
1500-1700	1700-1800
1800-1900	1900-1940

 

European Emigration: Statistics
Total: 1820-1920	Totals: 1820-1978
Immigration and Occupation	Immigrant Settlement: 1860
Immigration and Crime	Immigration and Illiteracy
Countries: Peak Years	Decades: 1820-1970

 

A Shoemaker's Story

U.S.A. Immigration Guide

 

 

The Journey
Embrakation	Journey to America
Fires and Shipwrecks	Disease

 

Immigration Acts
1866	1882
1891	1907
1917	1952

 

Foreign Born in 1890: States
New York	Illinois
Massachusetts	Minnesota

 

Foreign Born in 1890: Cities
New York	Chicago
Baltimore	Milwaukee
Minneapolis	Lawrence

 

Countries of Origin
Austria-Hungary	Ireland
Belgium	Italy
Bulgaria	Norway
Denmark	Portugal
England	Russia
Finland	Scotland
France	Spain
Germany	Sweden
Greece	Switzerland
Holland	Wales

 

Events, Issues & Immigration
Civil War and Immigrants	Ku Klux Klan
Haymarket Bombing	Assassination of McKinley
Industrial Workers of the World	Anarchism and Strikes
Molly Maguires	Sedition Act
The Red Scare (1919-20)	Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Jewish Immigration	McCarthyism

 

Germans in America
Samuel Adler	Joseph Leyendecker
John Altgeld	Louis Lingg
Karl Arnold	Solomon Loeb
John Jacob Astor	Henry Lomb
John Jacob Bausch	Thomas Mann
August Belmont	Johann Most
Lucian Bernhard	Thomas Nast
Albert Bierstadt	Oscar Neebe
Franz Boas	Peter Osterhaus
Wernher von Braun	Marion Palfi
Bertolt Brecht	Francis Pastorius
Heinrich Brüning	Erich Maria Remarque
Otto Dix	Rosie Scheiderman
David Einhorn	Jacob Schiff
Albert Einstein	Carl Schurz
Hanns Eisler	Michael Schwab
George Engel	Joseph Seligman
Berhard Felsenthal	Al Sieber
James Franck	August Spies
Lewis Keseberg	Heinrich Steinway
William Kueffner	Isidor Straus
Adolph Fisher	Johann Suter
Anton Fokker	Paul Tillich
August Follen	Henry Villard
Eric Fromm	Adalbert Volck
George Grosz	Robert Wagner
Walter Gropius	Paul Warburg
Oscar Hammerstein	Max Weber
Friedrich Heckler	Frederick Weyerhaeuser
Karen Horney	August Willich
Otto Kahn	Jurgen Wilson
August Kautz	Marie Zakrzewska
Gottfried Kinkel	John Peter Zenger

 

British in America
Samuel Argall	Thomas Hooker
Edward Baker	Henry Hudson
Alexander G. Bell	Anne Hutchinson
Frank Bellew	Anne Hutchinson
William Berkeley	Ann Lee
Elizabeth Blackwell	Robert Dale Owen
Emily Blackwell	Tom Paine
William Bradford	George Percy
Anne Bradstreet	William Penn
Simon Bradstreet	Allan Pinkerton
William Brewster	Benjamin Pitman
Peter Bulkeley	Benjamin Pitman
Andrew Carnegie	Benjamin Pitman
John Carver	Anna Howard Shaw
George Calvert	Stuart Slater
Leonard Calvert	John Smith
John Cotton	William Spry
Thomas Dudley	Arthur St. Clair
John Endecott	George Sutherland
John Eliot	John Tunstall
Samuel Fielden	Nathaniel Ward
Joseph Gales	Thomas De La Warr
Alexander Gardner	Alfred Waud
James Gardner	Roger Williams
Samuel Gompers	Edward Winslow
Richard Hakluyt	John Withrop
Francis Higginson	Fanny Wright

 

Irish in America
William Brady	Edwin Godkin
Patrick Breen	William Grace
Peter Collier	Dennis Kearney
John Conness	Mary 'Mother' Jones
Patrick Connor	Patrick Kennedy
Richard Croker	Samuel McClure
Michael Cudahy	James McParland
James Curley	Thomas Meagher
James Dolan	John Mitchel
John Downey	Lawrence Murphy
Arthur Ducat	James Reed
Tom Fitzpatrick	John H. Riley

 

Italians in America
Albert Anastasia	Salvatore Maranzano
Gaetano Bresci	Joe Masseria
Al Capone	Nicola Sacco
Frank Costello	Gaetano Salvemini
Renato Dulbecco	Emilio Segre
Enrico Fermi	Arturo Toscanini
Vito Genovese	Carlo Tresca
Arturo Giovannitti	Rudolph Valentino
Lucky Luciano	Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Salvador Luria	Giuseppe Zangara

 

Russians in America
Alexander Berkman	Morris Hillquit
Irving Berlin	Meyer Lansky
Abraham Cahan	Alexander Seversky
Jack Delano	Igor Sikorsky
Arthur Fellig	Mollie Steimer
Senya Fleshin	Rosa Pastor Stokes
William Friedman	Arthur Szyk
Emma Goldman	Selman Waksman
Sidney Hillman	Vadimir Zworykin

 

French in America
John Bernard	Pierre L'Enfant
Antoine Cadillac	Jacques Marquette
Samuel de Champlain	Louis Joseph Montcalm
Luis Joliet	Marquis de Mores
Robert Cavalier de LaSelle	Regus de Trobriand

 

Finns in America
Renny Harlin	John Nystrom
Aki Kaurismaki	Esa-Pekka Salonen

 

Swedes in America
Ingrid Bergman	Jons Jonsson
Selma Erickson	Olaf Krans
John Ericsson	Peter Lindstrom
Lars Paul Esbjorn	Christina Nilsson
Greta Garbo	Birger Sandzen
Carl Gustaveson	Herman Seaborg
Tufve Nils Hasselquist	Swan Turnblad
Joe Haaglund Hill	Gustav Unonius
Nils Johansson	Carl Wickman

 

Norwegians in America
Ole Evinrude	Cleg Peerson
Ivar Giaever	Knute Rockne
Hans Christian Heg	Ole Rolvaag
Sonja Henie	Finn Ronne
Ole Johnson	Marta Sandal
Canute Matson	Atle Selberg
Christian Morbeck	Karstein Solheim
Amund Olsen	Ole Steensland
Lars Onsager	Jon Torstein-Rue

 

Danes in America
Claus Clausen	Sivert Pederson
Laurence Gronlund	Soren Pederson
Joseph Mathiesen	Jacob Riis

 

Belgians in America
Leo Baekeland	Pierre-Jean De Smet
Charles van Depoele	Anastase Douay

 

Dutch in America
Bart Bok	Peter Minuit
Edward Bok	Albertus van Raalte
Domine Dellius	Gerrit van Schelven
Daniel de Leon	Henry Scholte
Hendrick van Loon	Peter Stuyvesant

 

Austro-Hungarians in America
Alfred Adler	Louis Kossuth
Victor Berger	Paul Muni
Robert Capa	Poli Negri
Anton Cermak	Joseph Pulitzer
Antonin Dvorak	Luise Rainer
Otto Eisenchiml	Albin Schoepf
Milos Forman	Rosika Schwimmer
Felix Frankfurter	Edward Teller
Harry Houdini	Walter Trier