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| − | The Burlington-Missouri Railroad Company, a division of the 1950s Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, induced a number of the Russian Mennonite immigrants of 1874, through their railroad representative, A. E. Touzalin, to locate on the railroad lands near [[Beatrice (Nebraska, USA)|Beatrice]], [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]]. The leader among the Russian immigrants was [[Jansen, Cornelius (1822-1894)|Cornelius Jansen]], after whose son the town of [[Jansen (Nebraska, USA)|Jansen]] later was named. The railroad company vied with the [[ | + | The Burlington-Missouri Railroad Company, a division of the 1950s Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, induced a number of the Russian Mennonite immigrants of 1874, through their railroad representative, A. E. Touzalin, to locate on the railroad lands near [[Beatrice (Nebraska, USA)|Beatrice]], [[Nebraska (USA)|Nebraska]]. The leader among the Russian immigrants was [[Jansen, Cornelius (1822-1894)|Cornelius Jansen]], after whose son the town of [[Jansen (Nebraska, USA)|Jansen]] later was named. The railroad company vied with the [[Santa Fe Railroad Company|Santa Fe]] in [[Kansas (USA)|Kansas]], in offering the Mennonites cheap railroad lands, reduced freight rates, immigrant houses, gifts, and passes. Nebraska received only a minor portion of the immigrant settlers, however. |
= Bibliography = | = Bibliography = | ||
Overton, Richard. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Burlington West, A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad</em>. Cambridge, 1941. | Overton, Richard. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Burlington West, A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad</em>. Cambridge, 1941. | ||
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The Burlington-Missouri Railroad Company, a division of the 1950s Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road, induced a number of the Russian Mennonite immigrants of 1874, through their railroad representative, A. E. Touzalin, to locate on the railroad lands near Beatrice, Nebraska. The leader among the Russian immigrants was Cornelius Jansen, after whose son the town of Jansen later was named. The railroad company vied with the Santa Fe in Kansas, in offering the Mennonites cheap railroad lands, reduced freight rates, immigrant houses, gifts, and passes. Nebraska received only a minor portion of the immigrant settlers, however.
Bibliography
Overton, Richard. Burlington West, A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad. Cambridge, 1941.
Smith, C. Henry. The Coming of the Russian Mennonites. Berne, IN, 1927: 66, 120 f., 171-175.
| Author(s) | C. Henry Smith |
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| Date Published | 1953 |
Cite This Article
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Smith, C. Henry. "Burlington Railroad." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 21 Nov 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Burlington_Railroad&oldid=100260.
APA style
Smith, C. Henry. (1953). Burlington Railroad. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 21 November 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Burlington_Railroad&oldid=100260.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 478. All rights reserved.
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