Tolerance for German in early America

[Beeman, William]

The largest immigrant group in the United States is German. More than 60% of all Americans have some German ancestry. Most of this was in the early 19th Century with a huge influx of farmers. 
 
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William O. Beeman
Professor, Anthropology; and Theatre, Speech and Dance
Brown University
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Quoting haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu:

>
> The other day I mentioned that Benjamin Franklin published a German edition
> of his English newspaper...


Where I grew up in Washington County, Maryland, there are old tombstones from
that period that are inscribed in German: "Hier lagt..." And there are
zillions of German names in the phonebook, including mine. My own ancestors
were Swiss Germans who came over in the 18th century; they're listed in the
1790 census.

Ron
(Writing from Carriacou, Grenada)