Kaplan Journey to America – czgen Czech immigrants to America

Media file	Title: Kaplan Journey to America Media type: story Format: htm
Record ID number	4f35a092-9c13-4e47-aab6-1b32a5fb5910
Date	May 1956
OBJE:_DSCR	taken from the book by R.W. Kaplan "The Kaplan Family History" Second story from Michael Wolesky "We Lack for Nothing Now"
OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line><p>&nbsp;&quot;On Sunday, May 11, 1856, Josef Karel said farewell to his family and friends in Nabocany and began the actual journey from Dlouha Trebova.&nbsp; There were six fellow travelers in the group: Josef Karel and Barbora, Barbora&#39;s parents, Josef and Katerina Zednik, Barbora&#39;s sister, Philomela, and Josef Pichner who was going to join his sons in America.&quot;</p><p>The book goes on to describe the journey on board the ship &quot;Emma&quot; which carried 300 persons plus personnel.&nbsp; They left Hamburg 31 May 1856 and landed in Quebec 26 July 1856.&nbsp; The journey then was as follows:&nbsp; St. Lawrence Seaway to Montreal, to Kingston, Ontario, to Toronto.&nbsp; Then on Lake Huron&nbsp; and to the US at Mackinaw, Mich., then by boat to Milwaukee WI., then train to Chicago where they met F. (Benjamin Fisher&#39;s?) and took the train to Freeport, IL where they stayed 14 days.&nbsp; Wagons then took them across parts of IA, WI and to the northwest.&nbsp; There were 10 families, 3 Czech, rest were German &amp; French.==================</p><p>...&quot;Ocean voyage to Quebec took six weeks. From there a series of steamboats, canals, and railroads to Montreal, Toronto, acrosss Lakes Huron and Michigan, to Milwaukee&nbsp;and on to Chicago...From a&nbsp;August 1856 letter, Kaplan wrote: &#39;From Chicago we rode by train to Freeport.&nbsp; Here we stayed fourteen days with Czech settler acquaintances and bought equipment for farming:viz.,wagons, oxen, cows; 2 wagons for $160, 4 oxen for $200, 2 cows for $50, and many other things such as stoves, plows, saws, axes, hoes, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The towns here are growing surprisingly, and also the railroads......But there are still no railroads going northwest.&nbsp; As we intend to go northwest to Minnesota, we have to ride from here by wagon.&nbsp; There are ten families of us preparing for the trip from Freeport to Minnesota over pariries and through forests......&quot;</p><p>&nbsp;</p></line></content></metadataxml>
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Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Barbara Zednik				1831	193	Czech Republic	10	October 25, 1881	143	50	Owatonna, Steele, Minnesota, USA	Never	F	YES	YES	R
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