President Franklin D. Roosevelt Praises the Sacrifices and Notable Contributions of Intrepid Pioneers, Who Came to America to “Enjoy the blessings of liberty”
During the Texas Centennial, he notes with approval the immigrants who came from Germany to Texas to find new homes.
“It is indeed fitting that the sacrifices of these intrepid pioneers and their notable contributions to the up-building of Texas should be commemorated”
Since their first immigration to Texas in the 1830s, there has been a substantial German population in Texas. The Germans tended to cluster in ethnic enclaves, and a majority...
“It is indeed fitting that the sacrifices of these intrepid pioneers and their notable contributions to the up-building of Texas should be commemorated”
Since their first immigration to Texas in the 1830s, there has been a substantial German population in Texas. The Germans tended to cluster in ethnic enclaves, and a majority settled in a broad, fragmented belt across the south central part of the state. This belt stretched from Galveston and Houston on the east to Kerrville, Mason, and Hondo in the west; from the fertile, humid Coastal Plain to the semiarid Hill Country. As early as 1850, they constituted more than 5% of the total Texas population, a proportion that remained constant through the remainder of the 19th century. Today, some 17% of the Texas population claims pure or partial descent from these Germans. Among the notable Americans with Texas German ancestry is Adm. Chester Nimitz, U.S. naval commander in World War II, who grew up in a town where the predominant language spoken was German.
Typed letter signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, April 28, 1936, to G.F. Neuhauser, owner of the Texas Free Press Publishing Co. “I was delighted to receive your kind letter of April 23 and thank you sincerely for writing as you did. It is natural in this year of the Texas Centennial that the thoughts of Texans of German origin should turn back to their sturdy ancestors who left the fatherland decades ago to find new homes and to enjoy the blessings of liberty in Texas. It is indeed fitting that the sacrifices of these intrepid pioneers and their notable contributions to the up-building of Texas should be commemorated. It is an obligation that we owe to them and to history.” Of course, Roosevelt spoke against a backdrop of Nazi rule and German chauvinism. It is his way of showing that Texans Germans, and indeed all Americans of German descent, should continue to take pride in their ancestry, and will not be lumped in with what was happening in Europe.
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