Cape Girardeau — Nicolas Gonner’s First American Home

Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Luxembourgish roots

Nicolas Gonner, born in Pfaffenthal in 1835, emigrated in 1866 and settled first in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. In 1872 he moved to Dubuque to edit the Luxemburger Gazette, the great German-language newspaper of Luxembourg America, and his book Die Luxemburger in der Neuen Welt remains a founding chronicle of the emigration.

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