German Americans
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German Americans are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.
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
Dutch Americans
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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
German Americans
…multiple other branches 26% Roman Catholic <1% Jewish 16% others including atheists Related ethnic groups Germans Frisian Americans German Canadians Dutch Americans Austrian Americans Jewish Americans Swiss Americans Belgian Americans Norwegian Americans Danish Americans Swedish Americans Icelandic Americans British…
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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