Fort Morgan, Morgan Co., Colorado
By the early 1900s Volga Germans from the Russian colonies of Anton, Dobrinka, Frank, Kautz, Kraft, and Yagodnaya Polyana had settled in and around Fort Morgan.
The following Volga German families are known to have settled in or near Fort Morgan:
Achziger from Kolb
Alles from Walter
Amen from Frank
Arndt from Norka
Asmus
Barthlama from Walter
Bath from Frank
Bauer from Frank
Bender from Kratzke
Bernhardt from Frank
Bohl
Brautigan from Kolb
Eckhardt from Kraft
Eisenach
Frank
Fabricius from Kratzke
Foos from Dietel
Frick from Frank
Fries from Hussenbach
Frihauf from Norka
Fritzler
Fuchs from Hussenbach
Geist from Kraft
Gettman from Frank
Graeb / Greb from Kraft
Greenwald from Frank
Heimbechner from Frank
Hein from Frank
Herdt from Eckheim
Hergenreter from Sewald
Hoffman from Frank
Kaiser
Kammarcal & Kammerzell from Frank
Kembel from Kolb
Kis(s)ler from Frank
Klein from Frank
Knaub
Koch from Kolb
Kosman from Urbach
Krening from Walter
Krieger from Norka
Lauck from Beideck
Lebsack/Lebsock from Frank
Lesser from Frank
Linker from Walter
Loose from Kraft
Luft
Meininger from Kolb
Meis
Meng from Neu-Messer
Mohr
Muth from Grimm
Nab/Neb from Kraft
Needens/Niedens from Wiesenmüller
Nuss from Eckheim
Ostwald from Kautz
Scheneman
- USA Settlement List (Patricia Miller)
- Fort Morgan, Colorado (Wikipedia)
- Germans from Russia (Fort Morgan Museum)
Pre-Volga Origin
Great Western Sugar Beet Factory in Fort Morgan, Colorado
Source: CSU Libraries Archives & Special Collections