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Potato Disease
My name is Bradan Johnson, and I have one brother and my father and mother. We lived in Ireland, and the potato diesease there infected all of our potato crop, so in order not to starve, me and my family of my father, mother, and brother packed some clothes, some cookware, heirlooms, and a lantern, and left the country to America. -
Arrival in America
We finally arrived in America, and we found out that you have to pass a series of tests and examinations to enter. -
New York Life
We had been living in New York for some time in a hotel, and my father found work at a construction site, but he got injured by a falling brick. -
Railroad Work
We had enough of the crowded streets and the gangster-like residents living in New York, so we moved on to the West, where we found a job working long hours on the railroad for low wages. I got burned by an explosion that was making a railroad tunnel, and we had to move again. -
Homestead Act
We traveled on, and using the Homestead Act, we got a large portion of land, about 160 acres. The farm was successful, and we made a lot from the crops. -
Permanent Farms
We had saved up enough money from our 5-year farm, and we bought our own permanent land with both vegetables and livestock. lived on and ran the farm until my death, around 1900.
