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Stories & Studies - Success Stories 

Life for the German immigrants was hard, but many found the St. Louis area full of opportunities and became successful in business, farming, the arts, and education.  Read about the hard work and perseverance needed to attain the successes and about the many contributions these prominent citizens made to their communities.

 
Books
 
The Yankee Dutchman 
By Stephen D. Engle
Biography of the German-born Civil War general, Franz Sigel. 
A bio-bibliography of German-American writers, 1670-1970 
By Robert E. Ward
Biographical articles on more than 3,000 individual authors, poets, dramatists and other writers of German-American background, lists of their works and publication information. It also discusses the nature of German-American literature and research. 
German engineers of early St. Louis and their works 
Biographical sketches of German-Americans, such as Henry Kayser, Charles Pfeifer, Henry Flad, William Taussig, August Rauschenbach and Julius Pitzman, who contributed to public improvements in St. Louis, among them the Eads Bridge and Lafayette and Forest parks. 
The uncorrupted heart 
By Frederick Julius Gustorf
Frederick Julius Gustorf, who immigrated from Germany in 1835, described his travels in Illinois and Missouri in the mid-1830s and 1840s. 
Making friends is our business 
By Roland Krebs
The authorized history of Anheuser-Busch, the world’s largest brewery. 
Under the influence 
By Peter Hernon
An unauthorized history of one of St. Louis’s most prominent German-American families, the Anheuser-Busch dynasty. 
Stand facing the stove 
By Anne Mendelson
Biography of cookbook author Irma von Starkloff Rombauer, who lived in St. Louis’ German-American community, and her daughter Marion Rombauer Becker. :  The Rombauer women gave America the Joy of Cooking. 
Call to the frontier 
By Joan M. Juern
Pamphlet on Goffried Duden and his effects on 19th century German emigration to Missouri. 
St. Louis woman 
By Helen Traubel
Autobiography of opera singer Traubel, born in 1903, who grew up in a modest family in South St. Louis. She left for New York and the Metropolitan Opera in her early 30s and became a major star. Originally published in 1959, this edition has a foreword by James C. Olsen and introduction by Vincent Sheean.  
Carl Wimar 
By Rick Stewart
In his short life (1828-1862) Wimar, German-born artist who settled in St. Louis, portrayed "the conflicting realms of reality and myth" of the American west. 
Carl Schurz 
By Hans Louis Trefousse
Biography about German immigrant Schurz who served as newspaper editor, minister to Spain, Civil War general, senator from Missouri and advocate of abolition and good government. 
Lemp 
By Stephen P. Walker
History of the Lemp family of St. Louis brewers and their mansion in South St. Louis. 
Websites
American Corner: Listing of famous German-Americans 
Links to biographical information about famous German-Americans. 
Books on this list can be borrowed from your library.  St. Louis Public Library cardholders can use the Library's online catalog to find specific locations where these books can be found.

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