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CHAPTER XII.
Revival of German Immioration and Life to i860.
received large additions of German immigrants. They came by way of Kew York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans. Representing nearly all of the German States, yet they principally came from Hessin and Saxony—particularly from the city of Marburg in Hessin. Mr. Kolting, a merchant whose descendants still live in Richmond, imported by sailing vessel direct from Bremen to Rockets, now Fulton, Ya., a large number of German laborers and artisans, who were employed in building the James river or Kanawha canal. Hhimerous German Hebrews settled in the various county seats of Virginia, where they established stores. Mr. Julius Straus, the present president of the Beth Ababa congregation, reported on Kov. t>, 1898, in a brief sketch of the Jews of Richmond : 17!l )
“In the years 1837, 1838 and 1839 there arrived in this city from Bavaria several families which had been accustomed to the German mode of worship. In these years the Congregation Beth Shalome was the only Synagogue in Richmond, and the history of .this congregation is, to some extent, the history of the Hebrews in Richmond. A minute-hook, which perished in the Haines of evacuation day, together with other valuable papers belonging to the synagogue, dated hack to the year 1791, which is generally accepted as the date of organiza-
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179.) ‘‘The Richmond Dispatch,” November 6th, 1898, p. 3.