The Pennsylvania Dutch

[Electronic God-Man]

There have been several threads now covering different European ethnic groups and I do recall being asked what the Pennsylvania Dutch/Pennsylvania Germans look like. I give the names and the original German spellings when possible. So, without further ado...

The Pennsylvania Dutch/Pennsylvania Germans



Abraham H. Bobb


Abraham R. Grove (Graf-Groff) & Nancy Hollinger


Adam Shick (Schick)


Albert W. Wambaugh




Alvah Coover & Hattie Hartman


Amanda Knappenberger




Annie Knoebel


Annie Rapp


Catherine Thrasher (Drescher) & William Kisner




Colissa Sayman (Seemann)


Daniel Weitzel & Kate Scheidt

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Deardorff Family


Family of Jonas and Susannah (Yingling/Juengling) Flickinger


Fannie May Miller (Mueller)


George Knappenberger


Gindlesperger & Weaver (Weber) Family


Hannah Sophia Knaeble (Knoebel)


Isaac T. Sones (Sohns)


Jacob S. Deardorff & Leah Richcrick


John B. Aughenbaugh & Delilah Hartman Family


Joseph Wilson Althouse (Althaus) & Mary DeTurk


Josephine, Marie Elizabeth, and Val Barnhart


Knappenberger Family


Levi B. Thrasher (Drescher) (a distant cousin of mine)


Martin R. Shick (Schick)


Martin S. Klinedinst (Kleindienst) & Mary Ann Shearer

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Michael J. Hess & Amanda Garber Family


Mary A. Yeich


Pictured are George Franklin Mumma (1853-1922) & Elizabeth Denlinger (1861-1938), Simon Snyder Mumma (1856-1947) & Nancy May Studebaker (1864-1933), Oliver Webster Mumma (1857-1905) & Anna Stoup (1861-1929), Hiram Mumma...


Nelson Rehmeyer


Pius Gantz (probably Gans = Goose) & Mariah Nafe


Shomo School, Berks Co. 10 February 1903 In the front row, the second child from the left is Samuel Berger and the last girl is Maud Berger. In the second row, the sixth child from the left is Daniel Berger.


Solomon Kauffman


Strausstown School, Berks Co. circa 1910 In the front row, the second boy from the left is Samuel Berger. In the third row, standing, the fifth girl is Helen Unger. In the back row, standing center, is the teacher, Calvin Unger.


Susan Himmel & daughter Mary Elizabeth


Sylvester Thrasher (Drescher) (another distant cousin of mine)


William Henry Hartman

[The Black Prince]

Nice collection Soten! They do look like two drops of water like 19th century pics of Dutch/German/Boer rural people.

Levi B. Thrasher (Drescher) (a distant cousin of mine)

Firm face, firm appearance Die boer met syn roer. up