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Dutch Americans are Americans of Dutch and Flemish descent whose ancestors came from the Low Countries in the distant past, or from the Netherlands as from 1830 when the Flemish became independent fro
The Van Bergen farm, 1733, near Albany, New York—distinctively Dutch
Typical Dutch homestead in Northeast Wisconsin, circa 1855
Martin Van Buren circa 1855. He was the first U.S. President without any British ancestry as he was of entire Dutch descent.
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German Americans
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German Americans are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
Dutch Americans
…Wisconsin, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Not included among Dutch Americans are the Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of mainly German Americans who settled in Pennsylvania in the colonial era and whose name is a derivation of the Pennsylvania Dutch endonym Deitsch, which means "Pennsylvania…
John Jacob Astor, in an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794, was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate.
Carl Schurz was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, "father of the American military"
German population density in the United States, 1872