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| | Churchyard/Orr Family Museum (Genealogy) -- D: Immigration Trip Diary of Friedrich Nohl, 1849 (Westphalia, Germany - ... |
 | | Friedrich Nohl, born in Remlingrade August 7, 1807, to the Pastor Johann Friedrich Nohl, was also a pastor, in Herscheid, and then was the founder and director of the Werdohl School of Agriculture, which was the first of its kind in Prussia. |
 | | Even before he gave up his pastor's job, he was asked in 1838 to be a director of Altena Agricultural Council, a group encompassing many agricultural organizations, and had made proposals for the agricultural betterment of the area. |
 | | Friedrich Nohl left behind a diary of the six weeks' crossing and the prosperous new beginning, which is reprinted here with the permission of the owner, Fritz Boecker in Saarbrucken, a great-nephew of the Riesenrodt school director, and is published for the first time [in a Werdohl newspaper]. |
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