Sentences with phrase «early immigrants settled»

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Peter Mann, 46, and his wife, Jo Ann, 40, were part of a wave of Romanian immigrants who fled Communist tyranny in the late 1970s and early 1980s, settling in Portland, Oreg., and adapting to American ways.

It was originally founded and settled by German immigrants, and was the largest producer of brownstone on the east coast until the early 1930s.

Comparisons of these genomes with those of other ancient Eurasian peoples indicate that Canaanite ancestry was split roughly 50 - 50 between the early farmers who settled the Levant and immigrants of Iranian descent who arrived later, between 6,600 and 3,550 years ago.

In the major cities of the Northeast, where Catholic immigrants from Europe had settled in large numbers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the reduction in the number of Catholic schools was similar.

Originally the home of the Anishinaabe Indians, it was increasingly settled by white immigrants throughout the early to mid-1800s.