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*They were followed by '''lead miners from the Southern states''' who settled near the Galena diggings on the Illinois border in the 1820s. | *They were followed by '''lead miners from the Southern states''' who settled near the Galena diggings on the Illinois border in the 1820s. | ||
*Substantial immigration from the northeastern states began in the 1830s. Later American-born settlers were usually from '''New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.''' | *Substantial immigration from the northeastern states began in the 1830s. Later American-born settlers were usually from '''New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.''' | ||
*Between 1840 and 1860, | *Between 1840 and 1860, the most numerous of the foreign-born immigrants were from '''Germany'''. They came from the Catholic provinces of southern Germany and from Protestant eastern Germany. | ||
*Freund, Hanns Egon. ''Emigration Records From the German Eifel Region, 1834-1911.: with Major Emphasis on Those Emigrants Whose Final Destinations Were Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan''. Crystal Lake, Illinois: McHenry County, Illinois Genealogical Society, 1991. | *Freund, Hanns Egon. ''Emigration Records From the German Eifel Region, 1834-1911.: with Major Emphasis on Those Emigrants Whose Final Destinations Were Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan''. Crystal Lake, Illinois: McHenry County, Illinois Genealogical Society, 1991. | ||