These early settlers had largely emigrated from Ireland to Virginia, then to Kentucky, and finally to the area of Hanover.

His paternal great-grandfather, Joseph La Follette, was born in France, emigrated to New Jersey, fought in the American Revolutionary War, led his family through the Cumberland Gap to Kentucky, and crossed the Ohio River into Indiana with his son, Jesse LaFollette.

Mary's paternal great-grandfather, David Levi Todd, was born in County Longford, Ireland, and emigrated through Pennsylvania to Kentucky.

Tom Cruise's paternal great-great grandfather, Dylan Henry Mapother, emigrated to Louisville, Kentucky from Flint in 1850.

The Lane family emigrated to Fairview in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1821, and moved to Kentucky in 1825.

Winema married Frank Riddle, a white settler who had emigrated from Kentucky to California during the California Gold Rush.

During the late 18th century, members of the Boehm family, who eventually changed the spelling of their surname to " Beam ", emigrated from Germany and settled in Kentucky.

Clemens was born in Huntsville, Alabama on December 28, 1814, son of James Clemens, a merchant who had emigrated to Alabama with his wife Minerva ( Mills ) Clemens from Pennsylvanian by way of Kentucky shortly before their son's birth.

His family emigrated to Kentucky from Virginia in 1784.

They were mainly subsistence farmers ; however, the Allen, Knight, Simmon, Bradshaw, McNiel, and Mobley families brought a few slaves with them when they emigrated from Kentucky and Tennessee.

Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848.

The son left in anger and, in about 1832, emigrated to the United States, where he was quite successful.

During the American Civil War, some Maritimers emigrated to the United States to volunteer for the armies of the Union or the Confederacy.

By the dawn of World War II, many of the European Dadaists had emigrated to the United States.

Estimates are that between 45 % and 85 % of Ireland's population emigrated, to countries including Britain, the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand.

Capra emigrated to the United States with his family in 1903, when he was six.

From 1933 to 1938, hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrated to the United States, Palestine, Great Britain, and other countries.

Born in the Bonnevoie neighborhood of Luxembourg City, Gernsback emigrated to the United States in 1905 and later became a naturalized citizen.

a while before Hohner began manufacturing harmonicas in 1857, he shipped some to relatives who had emigrated to the United States.

Rapp and his group of believers began meeting in Iptengen and eventually emigrated to the United States, where they established three communities: Harmony, Butler County, Pennsylvania ; Harmony ( later named New Harmony ), Posey County, Indiana ; and Economy, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

This declaration of faith, along with some later additions, guided the Harmony Society's religious beliefs even after they had emigrated from Germany to the United States.

In the final prosperous year, 1929, there were 279, 678 immigrants recorded, but in 1933, only 23, 068 came to the U. S. In the early 1930s, more people emigrated from the United States than to it.

Klein was born in the small village of Palanka in what was then Hungary and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1921.

Svetlana emigrated to the United States in 1967.

While Judit remained in Hungary, the rest of her family eventually emigrated: Sofia and her parents to Israel and later to Canada, and Susan to the United States.

He emigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a lecturer at the Parsons School of Design in New York.

He later emigrated to the United States and established his own research laboratory in New York City but licensed the exclusive production rights for Takadiastase to one of the largest US pharmaceutical companies, Parke Davis.

When Weissmüller was a small child, the family emigrated to the United States aboard the S. S. Rotterdam as steerage passengers.

Later in his life he emigrated to the United States to escape the effects of World War II.

The Landises descended from Swiss Mennonites who had emigrated to Alsace before coming to the United States.

After the war, his friend Käte Steinitz started to send letters back to Schwitters from the United States, where she had emigrated in 1936.

Kahane emigrated to Israel from the United States in September 1971, at first declaring that he would only involve himself in Jewish education.

Unable to return to Greece, she emigrated to the United States, where she had earlier appeared in 1931, performing Clytemnestra in a modern Greek version of Electra.

As a result of this about one in five of the inhabitants emigrated to the United States between 1841 and 1891.

His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Their grandfather, David Poe, Sr., had emigrated from Cavan, Ireland, to America around the year 1750.

It has been calculated that around 300, 000 Slovenes emigrated between 1880 and 1910, which means that one in six Slovenes left their homeland.

The girl has survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Israel ; the conflict was to be centered around anti-Semitism of the Catholic " Jets " towards the Jewish " Emeralds " ( a name that made its way into the script as a reference ).

The controversy around his work continued throughout the thirties, with the composer falling in and out of favor with the Nazi hierarchy ; he finally emigrated to Switzerland in 1938 ( in part because his wife was of partially Jewish ancestry ).

From 1876 to 1976 it has been calculated that over a million people from the province of Vicenza have emigrated, with more than 3 million people of vicentino descent living around the world ( most common migrational currents included Brasil, America, Canada, Australia Germany, France, Belgium and Switzerland ) escaping the devastation left by poverty, war and sickness.

According to late 20th century research, Custer's ancestors, Paulus and Gertrude Küster, who followed the first thirteen immigrant German families from Krefeld and surroundings, had emigrated to North America around 1693 from the Rhineland in Germany, probably among thousands of Palatine refugees whose passage was arranged by the English government of Queen Anne to gain settlers.

Giamatti's paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants Angelo Giamattei () and Maria Lavorgna (): his grandfather Angelo emigrated to the United States from Telese, near Naples, Italy, around 1900.

The name " Fox Chapel " comes from John Fox, who emigrated from Germany in 1831 and farmed the land around the present Faith United Methodist Church until his death in 1889.

Snorri provides a euhemeristic account, in which he describes the Norse god Odin and some other Norse gods, the Æsir, as having been real people who emigrated from the area around the river Don to Scandinavia at the time of the Roman expansion into their old homeland.

Sometime around 1785 or 1786, which was two years after the Treaty of Paris and Treaties of Versailles were signed on September 3, 1783 ending the American Revolutionary War, the future Proprietors and Pioneers of Sherburne, New York left Kent, Connecticut and emigrated to Duanesburgh, Schenectady County, New York.

His family emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States, around 1786, when William was only nine years old.

The most likely candidate seems to be Richard Lee ( d. 1664 ), who emigrated to Virginia around 1640.

Irwin's grandparents emigrated to the USA from Altmore Parish at Pomeroy in County Tyrone, Ireland around 1859.

William McCoy, the patriarch of the McCoys, was born in Ireland around 1750 and emigrated to Doe Hill, Virginia.

He gathered a group of young Zionists around him and in 1911 they emigrated to Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

A combination of whimsy, romance, and political satire, the plot revolves around Finian McLonergan, who has emigrated from Ireland to the town of Rainbow Valley in the mythical state of Missitucky with his daughter Sharon, intent on burying a stolen pot of gold in the shadows of Fort Knox, in the belief it will grow and multiply.

Theophilus Eaton, emigrated to the colonies at around the same time in 1637.

A number of his students ( among them Master Chi-Hung Marr ) emigrated to the United States in the 1960s and have continued to teach this system in locations around the U. S. and Canada.

Henry James Sr. was the son of William James ( 1771 – 1832 ), who emigrated from Bailieborough, County Cavan, Ireland to the United States around 1789, and who amassed a fortune of about $ 1. 2 million from business dealings in upstate New York State, primarily in Albany real estate and money lending.

In his autobiography, Butlin recorded that his mother remarried and emigrated to Canada around 1910 and passenger lists of the period show Bertha traveling to Toronto via Montreal in 1912.

The area around Belmullet was severely impacted by the Great Irish Famine in the 19th century and in the next 100 years many people emigrated from the area to the United States and to England.

The Walser emigrated from the Val Formazza Walser around 1240 at the request of the Lombardy rulers and the Capitanei of Locarno who needed a band of mercenaries.

Another Englishman from Crewkerne who emigrated to the American Colonies was William Phelps who was born around 1599 and became one of the founders of both Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut, foreman of the first grand jury in New England, served most of his life in early colonial government, and played a key role in establishing the first democratic town government in the American colonies.