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- catalog abstract "This collection contains the correspondence of five generations of the Dreier family. It includes correspondence between single members of the Dreier family and correspondence with related families and other persons, as well as the private papers of single family members and handwritten poems (most written on the occasion of family celebrations). The collection offers insight into the life of a relatively wealthy north German family of merchants and pastors: its economic conditions and social life; the relationship among spouses, siblings, parents and their children; the intellectual background of single family members; the treatment of diseases and cases of death (foremost of children), as well as taking cures at health resorts in Germany; education and schooling; and contemporary politics. Due to the fact that one couple (two cousins) and two other family members went to the United States (with quite different economic success) in the middle of the 19th century, the collection is also a source for the history of emigration from Germany to America, and provides some documentation of the American Civil War. Particularly interesting is the correspondence of women of the third and fourth generation with their mothers or daughters, where pregnancy, birth, or the loss of children and their education play an important role. The correspondence is in the German cursive writing of the 19th century and is extremely difficult to read without training.".
- catalog contributor b2093581.
- catalog coverage "Iowa Rural conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Prussia (Germany) Politics and government 1848-1866.".
- catalog coverage "Prussia (Germany) Politics and government 1870-1947.".
- catalog coverage "Prussia (Germany) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Prussia (Germany) Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
- catalog date "1778".
- catalog description "Dreyer Family Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch01214".
- catalog description "The second son of Johann Caspar Dreier and Dorothea Adelheid Uhthoff, Julius Alexander Dreier (b.1805), worked as a pastor in Mittelsbueren and Grambke (today part of the state Bremen), and married first Metta Lucie Wilhelmine Noltenius (b.1800) who died five years after the marriage and then Margaretha (Meta) Catharina Lampe (b.1813). Julius Alexander Dreier (b.1805) and his two wives had ten children. The third son, August Ferdinand Dreier (b.1808), who became a merchant in Bremen also married twice: Sophie Friederike Elisabeth (Betty) Focke (b.1808) in 1837 and 32 years later Margaretha (Meta) Thibetha Meinertzhagen (b.1814). August Ferdinand Dreier (b.1808) and his first wife had four children. The youngest son, Heinrich Eduard Dreier (b.1811), became a pastor in Neuenkirchen near Farge (today part of the state Bremen), where he lived until his death with his wife Margaretha (Meta) Thibetha Hotzen (b.1817). Heinrich Eduard Dreier (b.1811) and his wife Margaretha (Meta) Thibetha Dreier (b.1817) had three children. The eldest daughter Margaretha (Meta) Dreier (b.1839) married pharmacist Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Knoch (b.1826), who had pharmacies in Blumenthal, Bad Pyrmont, Giessen and Krefeld. The second child, Dorothea Adelheid Dreier (b.1840), married her cousin and moved to the United States. Her brother, Johann Caspar Ludwig Dreier (b.1843), never married. He followed his sister and his cousin to the United States during the 1860s where he worked for Naylor & Co. and an insurance company. His attempt to establish his own enterprise failed after a short time. He later returned to Germany.".
- catalog description "This collection contains the correspondence of five generations of the Dreier family. It includes correspondence between single members of the Dreier family and correspondence with related families and other persons, as well as the private papers of single family members and handwritten poems (most written on the occasion of family celebrations). The collection offers insight into the life of a relatively wealthy north German family of merchants and pastors: its economic conditions and social life; the relationship among spouses, siblings, parents and their children; the intellectual background of single family members; the treatment of diseases and cases of death (foremost of children), as well as taking cures at health resorts in Germany; education and schooling; and contemporary politics. Due to the fact that one couple (two cousins) and two other family members went to the United States (with quite different economic success) in the middle of the 19th century, the collection is also a source for the history of emigration from Germany to America, and provides some documentation of the American Civil War. Particularly interesting is the correspondence of women of the third and fourth generation with their mothers or daughters, where pregnancy, birth, or the loss of children and their education play an important role. The correspondence is in the German cursive writing of the 19th century and is extremely difficult to read without training.".
- catalog description "Unpublished finding aid.".
- catalog description "When Johann Caspar Dreier (formerly Dreyer, b.1758) married Dorothea Adelheid Uhthoff (b.1774) in 1797 the Dreiers were a relatively wealthy merchant family from Bremen in northern Germany. The couple had four sons and a daughter who died at the age of eleven. The eldest son Gustav Theodor Dreier (b.1803), married to Thaddea Henriette Schacht (b.1806), was also a merchant in Bremen but got into financial troubles during the 1850s. They had seven children. Three daughters died as children as did a son at the age of 19. Their eldest child, Johann Caspar Theodor Dreier (b.1828), became a merchant and emigrated to the United States at the end of the 1840s. There he worked for the steel distributor Naylor & Co. in New York, where he became a quite wealthy businessman. In 1864 he married his cousin, Dorothea Adelheid Dreier (b.1840), the daughter of his uncle Heinrich Eduard Dreier and his wife Margaretha (Meta) Thibetha Dreier, and took her with him to the United States where the couple lived mainly in Brooklyn. They had seven children. Their daughters, Marie (Mary) Elisabeth Dreier (b.1875) and Katherine Sophie Dreier (b.1877), became quite well known, the first as a social reformer (her papers can also be found at the Schlesinger Library, MC 309), the second as an artist and a patron of the arts. Gustav Theodor Dreier's daughter, Dorothea Henriette Christine Dreier (b.1829), never married and stayed with her father in Bremen. After being ill and partly bedridden for several years she died at the age of 41. Her brother, Karl Wilhelm Dreier (b.1836), was sent to the boarding school Rauhes Haus in Hamburg. After several years as seaman (finally as officer on a steamship) he became a farmer in Iowa. He married Bertha Obermann (b.1846) in 1869, and after her death eight years later, Marie Adelheid Kant (b.1857).".
- catalog extent "6.05 linear ft. (14 + 1/2 file boxes)".
- catalog issued "1778".
- catalog language "Most of the collection in German, some materials in English.".
- catalog language "ger eng".
- catalog language "ger".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Germany Prussia.".
- catalog spatial "Iowa Rural conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Iowa.".
- catalog spatial "Prussia (Germany) Politics and government 1848-1866.".
- catalog spatial "Prussia (Germany) Politics and government 1870-1947.".
- catalog spatial "Prussia (Germany) Religious life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Prussia (Germany) Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "United States Emigration and immigration.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Childbirth.".
- catalog subject "Children Conduct of life.".
- catalog subject "Children Death.".
- catalog subject "Children Health and hygiene.".
- catalog subject "Clergy Germany Prussia.".
- catalog subject "Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952.".
- catalog subject "Dreier, Mary E. (Mary Elisabeth), 1875-1963.".
- catalog subject "Dreyer family.".
- catalog subject "Families of clergy Germany Prussia.".
- catalog subject "Farm life Iowa.".
- catalog subject "Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871.".
- catalog subject "Germans United States.".
- catalog subject "Health resorts Europe.".
- catalog subject "Household employees Germany Prussia.".
- catalog subject "Marriage Germany Prussia.".
- catalog subject "Marriage United States.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and daughters.".
- catalog subject "Orphans Germany Prussia.".
- catalog subject "Parent and child.".
- catalog subject "Pregnancy.".
- catalog subject "Prenuptial agreements Germany Prussia.".
- catalog subject "Voyages and travels.".
- catalog subject "Women Religious life Germany Prussia.".
- catalog title "Papers of the Dreyer family, 1778-1928 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Love-letters.".
- catalog type "Poems. aat".
- catalog type "collection".