In honor of the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the Volga German colonies, the Volga German Institute at Fairfield University will be hosting a seminar series in Bloomington, Minnesota, home of the Mall of America.
Alexander Kling, son of Peter Kling, was born in the Volga German colony of Hoffental. He was the owner of a Singer sewing maching store in Pokrovsk (Engels). As a member of the left wing of the Kadet Party, Kling was elected on 7 February 1907 as a deputy of the short-lived Second State Duma. The Second Duma met from February 20 to June 3, 1907. He was the only Volga German to serve in the Second Duma. His ultimate fate is unknown.
Heinrich Schellhorn, son of Christoph Schellhorn, was born in 1860 in the Volga German colony of Seelmann.
In 1897, he became the managing director of the publishing house H. Ch. Schellhorn & Company, publishers of the newspaper Saratower Deutsche Zeitung and the journal Klemens.
Volga Germans from the villages of Dreispitz, Huck, Norka, Pobochnaya, and Shcherbakovka came to Alberta in the mid-1890s, settling in the Calgary area as well as west of Edmonton in Stony Plain and Glory Hills. Both areas attracted additional immigrants from the Volga in following years, for example, in the vicinity of Trochu, Beiseker, and Duffield. Volga Germans of the Reformed faith also settled in 1897 near Mellowdale in the Barrhead area.
Volga Germans settled in Manitoba.
Volga German Baptists began arriving in Saskatchewan in 1887 and settled near Ebenezer. Immigrants from the Lutheran colonies began to arrive shortly thereafter.
Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 1,900 Evangelical (Lutheran) Volga German immigrants of the first and second generation settled in Wyoming.
The Volga Germans in Wisconsin live primarily in urban areas.
In the spring of 1882, a group of Volga German families from Hitchcock County, Nebraska, boarded a Union Pacific train in North Platte enroute to Ogden, Utah, which was at that time the end of the rail line. In Ogden, they formed a convoy of 40 wagons with Frederick Rosenoff as the wagon master. From Ogden, they headed north along the California Trail until they reached the Oregon Trail near the headwaters of the Snake River. They continued on from American Falls (Idaho) through Boise (Idaho) and Baker City (Oregon) to Pendleton (Oregon).
Volga Germans resettled in Texas from the settlements in Kansas. Sallet reports that by 1920, there were 500 Volga German Protestant immigrants of the first and second generation settled in Texas.