Ramsey County History – Spring 1994: “Growing Up in St. Paul: Yankeedom: Goal of the 19th Century Immigrant”

Growing Up in St. Paul: Yankeedom: Goal of the 19th Century Immigrant

Author: John W. Larson

The author’s fond recollections of his Swedish grandparents who when they reminisced would never talk about Sweden and whose ideal was to become a Yankee. In researching his family’s origins in Sweden and their early history in St. Paul, he discovers how so much of their lives was directed toward ensuring that their children would have all the advantages of being Americans.

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