1908 1ST ED DEUTSCHER PIONIER-VEREIN VON CINCINNATI, OHIO PHOTO ILLUSTRATED RARE

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"It is with particular pride and great satisfaction that we look back on our association's forty-year past, for it has not only existed during this long series of years, but also has grown and bent like a tree on solid ground, so that it currently has more members than ever before. At the end of the year on June 30, 1908, the total number was 876, after 132 new members had joined within twelve months, a greater increase than ever before. How many other German American associations can boast of such advancing growth?...We have been fighting fearlessly and faithfully for the personal freedom and independence of our adoptive Fatherland."
Deutscher Pionier-Verein
von Cincinnati, Ohio:
Dorstandsbericht
über das
40, Dereinsjahr 1907-1908,
1 Juli 1907 vis 30 Juni 1908.
[GERMAN PIONEER ASSOCIATION OF CINCINNATI, OHIO: MANAGEMENT REPORT OF THE 40TH YEAR OF THE ASSOCIATION, 1907-1908]
German Pioneer Association. Cincinnati:
S. Rosenthal & Co.,
1908
. Only edition. German text. 8vo. 90 pages, photo illus., biographies of deceased members, lists; membership application slip laid-in. Publisher's original wraps, stapled textblock. Rubberstamp of J. Hanno Deiler at upper cover, St. Joseph's Abbey to title-page, else textblock clear and unmarked.
The German Pioneer Society was founded in 1868 to record and preserve German-American history. It published the historical journal
Der Deutsche Pionier
from 1869 to 1887, for many years edited by Heinrich A. Rattermann. They published their annual report from 1887 to 1956. The society, which lasted until 1961, held a number of festivals, including a Stiftungsfest, or Founding Day Festival.