Government Records
| Citizenship |
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| Many Ask For Citizenship |
| Four Receive Final Papers, Ten Make
Petitions, and Forty Make Declaration of Intention. |
The Oelwein Register
Oelwein,
Fayette County Iowa
Wednesday, February 12, 1919
Page
4, column 2 & 3 |
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Argo-Gazette:--- The business of making American citizens
out of foreigners has not been particularly rushing during the
year 1918, according to Clerk of the Courts John T. Riley.
The reason for this is not that foreigners do not want to
became citizens, but because citizens of Germany and other
countries at war with the United States can not be naturalized
in war time. Ten petitions of naturalization are now pending,
eight of them being made by Germans, but papers can not be
granted until after peace is declared.
Only four
certificates of naturalization or final papers were granted
during the year 1918, two of the applicants being from
England, one from Italy, one from Switzerland.
They
are as follows:
| Carl Leopold Kokalblas of Arlington, who was born in
England and came to America in 1910. |
| William Edward Butler, formerly of Fayette, born in
England, and came to America in 1910 |
| Mattia Zurbniggen of Clermont, born in Italy came to
America in 1913. |
| Werner Schiess, Oelwein, born in Switzerland, came
to America in 1912. |
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The applicants for citizenship whose petitions are awaiting
the declaration of peace are as follows:
| Ricklof Rose of Strawberry Point, born in Germany,
came to America in 1900. |
| Fred Sieck of Hawkeye, born in Germany, came over in
1893. |
| John Vaclav Kwasnicka of Oelwein, born in Bohemia,
came over in 1907. |
| Elizabeth Margaretha Haueison of West Union, born in
Germany, came over in 1881. |
| Gerd Friedrich Wilken of Oelwein, born in Germany,
came over in 1910. |
| Max Walters of Oelwein, Born in Germany, came over
in 1908. |
| August Herman Wolfgram of Maynard, born in Germany,
came over in 1892. |
| Otto Wirth of Elgin, born in Germany, came over in
1913. |
| Emil Carl Pellner of Oelwein, born in Germany, came
over in 1902. |
| Samuel Hechtmann of Oelwein, born in Russia, came
over in 1904. |
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Three of these -- Ricklof Rose, Fred Sieck and John Vaclay
Kwasnicka -- are to come for their final hearing today.
Besides these ten petitions, forty declarations of
intention have been made, nearly half, or seventeen, being
made by Germans, There are also four declarants from Sweden,
four from Italy, three from Norway, three from England, two
from Switzerland, and one each from Ireland, Palestine,
Denmark, Syria, Hungary, Turkey and Russia. The list follows:
| Leonhart John Nottinagel, West Union, cam
from Germany in 1884 |
| Frederick Grutzmacher, Westgate, came from
Germany in 1870 |
| Fritz Gumm, Westgate, came from Germany in
1871 |
| Albert Henry Retz, Oelwein, came from
Germany in 1879 |
| William Bicker, West Union, came from
Germany in 1880 |
| William Mitchell, Wadena came from Ireland
in 1873 |
| Joseph Altman, Waucoma, came from
Germany in 1876 |
| Gustav Eulman, Fayette, came from Germany
in 1871 |
| Hassen Engelhart, Eldorado, came from
Germany in 1856 |
| Edward Swanson, Oelwein, came from Sweden
in 1881 |
| Nels Peter Louvring, Fayette, Came from
Denmark in 1882 |
| Christ George Larsen, West Union, came from
Norway in 1887 |
| Fidel Bwalwann, Oelwein, came from Syria in
1892 |
| Herman Albia Wallgren, Oelwein, came from
Sweden in 1874 |
| Andres Forthun, Oelwein, came from Norway
in 1880 |
| Fritz Bloik, Fremont township, came from
Germany in 1881 |
| Edward Robert Emanuel Emblom, Oelwein, came
from Sweden in 1896 |
| Harold Tage Moody, Oelwein, came from
Sweden, in 1899 |
| John Heinlein, Oelwein, came from Germany
in 1873 |
| Emil Getischewski, Oelwein, came from
Hungary in 1891 |
| Louis Madison, Oelwein, came from England
in 1885 |
| Karl Frederick Ladeburg, Oelwein, came from
Germany in 1897 |
| August Feifer, Oelwein, came from Germany
in 1888 |
| William Simpson Walker, Oelwein, came from
England in 1883 |
| Harold Nightingale Walker, Oelwein, came
from England in 1884 |
| Frederich Joachim
Popenhagen, Fayette, came from Germany in 1856 |
| Alexander Karth, Oelwein, came from
Switzerland in 1871 |
| Peter Emil Olsen Dahl, West Union, came
from Norway in 1873 |
| Christopher Pierstarff, Putnam township,
came frm Germany in 1857 |
| Nels Hansen Rasmussen, Oelwein, came from
Germany in 1899 |
| Johnn Emil Barfuss, Elgin, came from
Switzerland in 1880 |
| Saint Falazzdlo, Oelwein, came from Italy
in 1835 |
| Vito Triggiani, Oelwein, came from Italy in
1889 |
| Domenico Ladiso, Oelwein, came from Italy
in 1897 |
| Fred Richard, Oelwein, came from Turkey in
1892 |
| Nicol Quaranto, Oelwein, came from Italy in
1885 |
| Peter Walencius, Oelwein, came from Russia
in 1881 |
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