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Pueblo, Pueblo Co., Colorado

Includes the following communities
Pueblo, Pueblo Co., Colorado
Pueblo West, Pueblo Co., Colorado
Boone, Pueblo Co., Colorado
History

Sallet reports that the settlement of Volga Germans in Pueblo began in the 1890s when Wiesenseite colonists who had first settled in Ellis County, Kansas, began moving there.

Volga German Families

The following Volga German families settled in and around Pueblo, Colorado:

Artzer from Sewald
Ball from Streckerau
Basgal from Marienberg
Beisel from Straßburg
Bittel from Wittmann
Blehm from Straßburg
Dechant from Ober-Monjou
Depperschmidt from Liebental
Dome from Pfeifer
Dorzweiler from Katharinenstadt
Eitel from Beideck
Etzel from Pfeifer
Falkenstein from Schuck
Farhar from Semenovka
Flohr from Merkel
Geier from Graf
Grenz from Franzosen
Johannes from Kukkus
Kanzler from Kolb
Katzendorn from Zug
Knoll from Herzog
Komlofske from Husaren
Lauer from Rothammel
Linenberger from Herzog
Manweiler from Rosenberg
Miltenberger from Rothammel
Pfannenstiel from Ober-Monjou
Pfeifer from Herzog
Quint from Louis
Reigenborn from Köhler
Romme from Herzog
Ruder from Wittmann
Rupp from Ober-Monjou
Sauer from Zug
Schell from Sewald
Schlitt from Norka
Schreivogel from Wittmann
Staab from Katharinenstadt
Weilert from Katharinenstadt
Werth from Schönchen
Wertz from Yagodnaya Polyana
Wolf from Neu-Ober-Monjou
Yede from Streckerau
Yergert from Eckheim

Notable Individuals
Sources

- Sallet, Richard. Russian-German Settlement in the United States (Fargo, ND: North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, 1974): 60.

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Volga Colonies

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Migrated From

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