Esta web utiliza cookies propias y de terceros que nos permiten optimizar tu experiencia en el sitio web, evaluar su rendimiento, generar estadísticas de uso y mejorar y añadir nuevas funcionalidades. Mediante el análisis de tus hábitos de navegación podemos mostrar contenidos más relevantes y medir las interacciones con la web.
Puede obtener más información aquí.

Avanzado
Artículos
Portada

AN AMERICAN JOURNEY - HISTORY OF THE BUNNER FAMILY 1736 - 2 IBD

GREGORY BUNNER / MICHAEL BUNNER
MICHAEL BUNNER
9798218677077
Inglés

Sinopsis

This book follows the history of one branch of the extended Bunner family in America from the time of their initial immigration from Germany in 1736 through the nine succeeding generations. The first six chapters provide the historical foundation for virtually every branch of the extended Bunner family in America today. The last seven chapters focus on the John Amos Bunner branch of the family, but provides the names and biographies of his nine siblings that can assist members of other branches of the Bunner family to trace their lineage.The first generation of Bunners left Germany in hopes of a better life in America and settled in Lancaster County, PA.áThe second generation chose the hard life of the American frontier in western Virginia (now West Virginia) and survived the French and Indian War. The third generation fought for American independence during the Revolutionary War and then returned to western Virginia to lead their lives.The fourth generation continued moving westward with the leading edge of the American frontier to present day Indiana.áOne member of the fifth generation moved his family back from Indiana to present day West Virginia to live on his original family farm.áThat generation also witnessed the construction of hundreds of miles of railroad tracks crisscrossing the region that significantly reduced the time to transport people and goods and greatly expanded the economy in western Virginia. The sixth generation lived through the political and social turmoil of the Civil War that saw many families in western Virginia torn apart by their choice of loyalties. They saw President Lincoln assist western Virginia citizens to break away from Virginia, secede from the Confederate States, and rejoin the Union as West Virginia, the thirty-fifth state.áIt was also this sixth generation that adopted 'Bunner' as the proper English spelling of the family name.The seventh generation moved from eastern to western WV near the Ohio River.áThe eighth generation moved from Wood County, WV to Zanesville, OH, and became the first generation to earn a living working in a factory and not as a farmer.áUnfortunately, the Great Depression caused that factory to close, forcing the family to return to WV where subsistence farming allowed them to survive until AmericaâÇÖs entry into World War II brought The Great Depression to an end. The ninth generation grew up during the Great Depression, lived through World War II and the Korean War, and witnessed the emergence of America as a superpower.áThe authors do a superb job of integrating the Bunner family biographies with the history of the times in which they lived. As a result, this book provides many interesting insights and tidbits into what life was like in the early German settlements of the 'Pennsylvania Dutch' country during colonial times. It also includes the trials and tribulations of the family that moved to the western Virginia frontier in the Appalachian Mountains in 1747, including an enco

PVP
51,14€