Johann Usner, a farmer, his wife Anna, and daughter Anna (age 3) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 14 September 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Reders.
Anna Cathar. Usner and her daughter Anna Dorothea (age 5) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
It is not known in which colony they settled.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Usner came from the German region of Darmstadt.
Volga German families settled in and around Big Timber, Montana.
There was a German Congregational Church in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as early as 1886 where pastor J. Lange served from 1886-1888. This congregational appears to have disbanded.
Zion Congregational Church was organized in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in 1923.
Volga German families settled in and around Westport, Washington.
Volga German families settled in and around Red Lodge, Montana.
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church was organized in Fresno, California. Its first church building was dedicated in 1913 at the corner of California and Lotus Avenue.
The first pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fresno was Carl Legler, brother of The Rev. Jacob Legler.
A German Congregational Church was organized in Worland, Wyoming, in 1917.
A German Congregational Church was organized in Torrington, Wyoming, in 1935.