Posted by Jim Koch on July 29, 19100 at 21:25:58:
In Reply to: 1856 Immigration Shipwreck posted by Bill Reynolds on July 29, 19100 at 18:48:55:
: My wife's family immigrated from Germany to Michigan in 1856. Her great great grandfather states that the ship went down and they lost all their belongings barely escaping with their lives. Does any one know of a wreck (maybe in the Great Lakes) that went down with a group passengers coming from Germany in the summer of 1856?
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I know of two wrecks in Lake Erie in 1856. These were the Northern Indiana and the George W Dole. The Northern Indiana was definitely a passenger vessel and went down with loss of life.