[78-L] O Maryland, My Christmas Tree

[Royal Pemberton]

I have my paternal grandmother's baptismal certificate from 1893, the year
she was born in Charleston, Iowa (a very small town in the southeastern part
of the state about 10 miles from Keokuk).  All in German, printed by the
German Evangelical Synod in St Charles, Missouri.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > Wasn't it a close vote between English and German to be the official
> > language of the US at one point?
> >
> Quite possibly?! Where I grew up, in central Illinois, there were
> German-language
> churches...even German-language newspapers. Of course, this all ended
> abruptly
> after the US entered WWI in 1917 (probably to the dismay of many elderly
> German speakers...?!)
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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