http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/nyregion/how-new-yorks-immigrants-lived.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion&action=click&contentCollection=nyregion®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront
Like Riis, who came to the United States from Denmark at age 21, Mr. Conrad has a family immigration tale, if several generations removed. “My great-great-grandfather came with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, from Germany, in 1899 or 1900,” Mr. Conrad said. “He toured America for a couple years, saved his money, then went back to Germany and brought his wife and kids to America.” If the walls of Oscar Heinrich Conrad’s old bakery in Momence, Ill., could only talk, what a story they would tell.
Like Riis, who came to the United States from Denmark at age 21, Mr. Conrad has a family immigration tale, if several generations removed. “My great-great-grandfather came with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, from Germany, in 1899 or 1900,” Mr. Conrad said. “He toured America for a couple years, saved his money, then went back to Germany and brought his wife and kids to America.” If the walls of Oscar Heinrich Conrad’s old bakery in Momence, Ill., could only talk, what a story they would tell.
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