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Twenty Years at Hull House · Character

Koerner

German poet and patriot referenced in immigrant cultural discussions.

minor

First appearance: xi immigrants and their children

Koerner shows up with force in First Days at Hull House. The page is where that presence becomes real.

German poet whose songs are sung at an anarchist Sunday school visited by Addams.
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