Adolf Cluss
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Adolf Ludwig Cluss also known as Adolph Cluss was a German-born American immigrant who became one of the most important, influential and prolific architects in Washington, D.C., in the late 19th centu
Cluss in 1900
Adolf Cluss (ca. 1860)
Adolf Cluss in front of the National Museum (1880)
Grave of Cluss at Oak Hill Cemetery
Forty-eighters
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The Forty-eighters were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe, particularly those who were expelled from or emigrated from their native land after those
Adolf Cluss
…the Mainz Worker Council. The failure of the German revolutionary movement in 1848 led him to leave Germany when he was twenty-three, along with other Forty-Eighters who emigrated to the United States at that time. In the United States, he continued his political activity into the 1850s, maintaining an extensive…
Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.
St. Louis Turnverein, 1860