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This is Our American Stories. Throughout our nation's history, millions of families have stood at the edge of one world. and stepped into another. They left farms and villages, crowded cities, and familiar shores. Carrying little more than trunks, Bibles.
and a belief that in America Their children might build something greater, hoping than they themselves had known. Today we bring you a story from one of our listeners, John L. Jacobson. whose great-grandfather did just that. John wrote this piece entitled The Lad on the Shore.
To commemorate the 140th anniversary of his great-grandfather's immigration. to the United States. Let's take a listen. What was he thinking? The eighteen-year-old as he stood on the shoreline facing an unknown future.
He was not alone on that Monday. september first, eighteen eighty four. Two older brothers, a sister-in-law, and two nieces stood nearby. In fact, Hundreds of other passengers. crowded the beach where he was.
Young and old they were all waiting. for the word to board ship. But in one sense, and Neo, as Cornelius was called, was alone. as were many others. He only had one life to live.
and he had made a decision that would radically change it. Within the hour he would be on board a steamship, The SS Ider. It was anchored just in front of him. It was lined up along the shore. A huge ship.
over 130 meters long. over four hundred feet. He had read a brochure about the ship. It was built less than a year before. in Glasgow, Scotland, for the Nordicer Lloyd Company.
It weighed nearly five thousand tons. had a beam nearly 50 feet high. It traveled at a top speed of 16 knots or 18 miles an hour. There were 167 crew members. and a capacity of twelve hundred passengers.
He was not afraid of what was ahead, but excited. Yet like men were taught, he had held his emotions captive. and waited motionlessly on the sand. He wore the brown woollen trousers his mother had sewn, with a dark red pledge shirt and jacket. At his feet were two black canvas bags.
One was crammed with foodstuffs intended to last him two weeks. He had two dozen potatoes for soup, with dried roasted beef and salt pork. He had wraps of black rye bread, and cloth bags of rye flour for baking mould. It have no problem with cooking. His passport showed his occupation as Baker's Helper.
The second bag contained rolled up clothing. a few shirts, a couple of pairs of pants, some socks in our undergarments. A second pair of boots, There was not enough clothes for the whole journey. but they could be washed and dried as needed. Part of his excitement was in his newfound freedom.
He had been under his father's authority all his life until now. There was always work to be done on the farm, and Vater gave the orders. was always Cornelius. do this and that and do it now. He had very little spare time to call his own.
But now Of course his two older brothers were on board. They would both try to control him, but Heinrich had his own wife and young daughter to busy him. And Johan was just four years older than Neil. You're not my boss was often on Neal's lips. Neil had difficulty trying to imagine his future life in America.
Of course he would miss his mama. and sisters And his papa. They were planning to follow as soon as they could sell the house. the livestock and other possessions. like their wagon and team of horses.
Nobody knew for sure how long that might take. There was uncertainty about trips across the ocean. Shipwrecks were not common, but did occur. The long voyages also had dangers of diseases. Accidents.
There was another worry. Crush was conscripting young men for the military. They were required to report for duty at age 20. No wars were going on at this time. But a relative had been killed in the Franco-Prussian War.
of eighteen seventy one. leaving a widow and two young daughters, to be raised by the Jacobsons. Neil and his brothers were converted to Christ. and baptized by the German Free Baptist Church. in the small village of Frishtenau, meaning Princess Meadow.
The family also had ties with the Lutherans. The Free Baptists were allied with the Mennonite Church. which strongly opposed War and Military Service Mennonites sponsored them on this immigration. pledging their employment when they reached Kansas USA. They were advised to list their birthplace as Switzerland.
Neal wondered, Isn't that bearing false witness? Their advisor was unsure about that, but assured them. God would forgive. Since they intense. was to save lives.
Soon he saw workers carrying crates. boxes on board. to place in storage. And one of the long crates he recognized. And it contained a large straw filled, cloth magged.
for H1 and his family. They were rolled up with blankets. waited to be taken to whatever seven foot by seven foot room had the bunks they had been assigned. and steerage. below sea level under the ship's deck.
These bunk rooms were included. on their tickets which cost about thirty dollars each. Heinrich planned to stay with his brothers in a three-bunk room. His wife and daughters would have their own room. Smaller wooden boxes also contain their cooking pans.
tan plates and utensils. Cups and mugs. Another box was for chamber pots or thunder mugs.
Soap Swap pails, Candles and a lamp or two. Castor oil and aspirin and other toiletries is available for packing. They've been shown a list of items. suggested that was written by P. B.
Chatfield In 1875, in Out to Sea. A trunk or two held any items they might have wanted to take with them. to America. And you've been listening to John L. Jacobson.
Share the story of his great-grandfather's journey to the United States. His grandfather was 18 years old. It was September 1st, 1884. to be precise. and he had some family nearby, no doubt, and hundreds of others alike waiting on that shore, going from Germany, sailing from Germany to the great unknown, to the United States.
and he had only one life to live, John said. The trip would forever alter that life. I know that my grandparents on both sides took that trip. And I heard about it a lot, the trip from Lebanon. and the trip from Italy.
and I loved what they both told me in their own way. that they didn't come here. to change America. that they'd come here. to have America change them.
And indeed it did. When we come back. More of John L. Jacobson's story of his great-grandfather's journey to this great country. A listener's story, and we love them here.
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their belongings stowed below deck. their future uncertain. Let's get back to John with the rest of his story. Yeah. He was startled by the ship's loud fog horn blasts.
and the captain's shout, and Steigen bitter. Aboard, please. No. The passengers hastily begin wrabbing their bags and creating lines. as they rush down the beach.
toward the log blanks. that led to the ship's entrances. As they finally reached shipside and walked up the gangplank, was a nice surprise. to see how fresh and clean The SSIDER looked. It was only ten months old.
Uh Once on board, they were directed to the stairs. down to steerage. and began looking for the ruse. Your Honour said.
Well, Neil I guess it's you and me and Heinrich on three stacked bunks. I claim the middle. Heinrich's going to want the lower. Guess where you sleep? Your head may hit the ceiling, but one good thing You'll be closer to the top of the ship if it sinks.
Neil had gone down to say where Marie. Heinrich's wife. and her daughter were staying Just as he got inside the room, A fellow church member knocked on the door. Neil, he said in a half whisper, An army officer is on his way down here. To look for men near military age, hide quick.
Like where? he asked. Get under the bunk on the floor. Anna spreads some blankets or clothes over the bottom bunk. Hurry.
I gotta go. Neil forced his way into the small crawl space and lay perfectly still until Army men had come and gone. He had prayed for God's protection over him. and the others.
Soon he could scrunch out and breathe again. He called himself a stowaway after that. They have been informed of the schedule at sea arise by 7 a.m. for breakfast. Eat lunch at noon.
Everyone except first class must cook their own meals. There was a tea time at 5 p.m., a time to gather and visit with other passengers. Supper was at 6 p.m. and lights out at 10 p.m. A religious service would be planned for Sunday.
And the ship sailed. Neil walked up the hallware to steerage. after dropping off his baggage, He stumbled and fell against one wall. then across to the other wall. Wow, he thought.
I feel like a duck on rocky ground. Took a couple of days before he got his sea legs. Go on up on deck, said his brother Johannes. Let's go exploring. They slowly made their way past the roaring steam engine room and gingerly climb the stairs to the next level.
They located the toilets and the washrooms in the lunch and dining area. There was also a large gathering room with tables and chairs.
Some boxes of checkers and some chess sets were saying But for now the upper root deck was the place to be. They stood at the rail swaying back and forth with the ship. watching the city of Bremen and the Coast of Prussia. slowly disappearing in the distance. Behind them lay the land of their childhood.
Ahead was nothing but an expanse of blue ocean. and an unseen planned. Often during the next twelve days they stood at that rail. Once they viewed an approaching storm, and experienced winds so strong it threw their boxes and trunks crashing against the walls of their rooms. For a few days they had trouble holding food in their stomachs.
and often were leaning over the rails. But most days the waters were quite calm. only lazily swaying the ship. on days like that. They enjoyed getting together with friends, old and new.
Learning a little English. playing the table games. Meals were much the same each day. Baker Neal was able to make some tasty rolls of rye flour to go with that. Potato soup.
and warmed over beef or pork. One thing was always the same for the Jacobson family. The prayer of thanksgiving. Danka. They're living robot.
For Deza Dinah Gabon, Amen. Thank you, loving God. For these thy gifts. Amen. On Sunday, September 7th, 1884, they gathered with hundreds of other passengers.
for a voluntary worship service in the community room. They sang German hymns. Perhaps some translated from English, like My faith looks up to thee. and my hope is built on nothing less. Passages from the German Bible were read.
Although the Jacobson Family Bible is still at home, the pop up, Maybe a preacher was on board to deliver a sermon or a deacon gave the word. We know it was a moving service. The sea sometimes surprised them. probably towards the last few days before journeys end. They observed sharks accompanying the ship, Probably looking for scraps of food.
and the smaller fish that fed there. Once they saw whales that sometimes jumped straight up out of the water, giants of the ocean. And finally. On the twelfth day, They saw the land. The coast of New York City.
They walked ashore on September 12. eighteen eighty four. Passports in hand. They were at the forerunner of Ellis Island, a place called Castle Gardens.
Someone met them and got them and their luggage aboard a train headed for Newton, Kansas. their future home. What were their thoughts on that long Railroad Ride Two. Home. And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Madison Derricott.
And a special thanks to John L. Jacobson, a listener in Oklahoma. And by the way, we have listeners all over the country on our nearly 490 signals. And my goodness, this may have been one of my favorites because it was just getting into the mind and the physical nature. And the emotional nature of leaving one country and coming to another and leaving everything behind, language, culture.
Everything for a better shot at life, and there aren't many of us listening or anywhere else in our studio where we make the show that doesn't have a family member who made that journey. And I urge all of you to try and track that story down. My goodness, going onto that ship, seeing your country leave in the rear of you. The story of Cornelius Jacobson, John L. Jacobson's great-grandfather, here on Our American Stories.
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