Cathleen Walsh's Immigration From Ireland http://genealogy.lovetoknow.com/Immigration_
By s-mamartin
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Cathleen decides to immigrate to America due to the potato famine that killed her farm. She knows there is avalible land because of the Homestead Act. She brings only two pairs of clothing and some of her farming tools, for she hopes to get land in America for a new farm.
http://immigration.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002690 -
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Cathleen arrives in America, and decides to race for land. Unfortunately, her horse gets shot just before she reaches unclaimed land.
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Cathleen must get a job since she didnt get any land for farming. She ends up becoming a housemaid for a rich, demanding family.
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Cathleen hates her job as a housemaid, and still wants to be a farmer. She hears about avalible land in the west, and decides to travel to the west to get some.
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Cathleen is able to get land in the west, and grows a nice, healthy farm.
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Cathleen doesn't make enough money off of her crops, so she joins the Populist Party. She spends most of her time in the west with this group.
http://www.augustana.edu/SpecialCollections/FarmLife/farmers1.html
