Gustavus Adolphus Neumann

[1] His editorials dealt with, among other topics, the Americanization of the immigrant, and expressed strong and clear ideas on the subject.

That year he served as a delegate to a nationwide convention of German immigrants (held in Pittsburg) that considered the problems of adjusting to life in America.

As owner and editor of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, he built the paper from a weekly - printed on a manually operated Washington Hand Press - to a tri-weekly, and set the stage for daily publication.

During this period, he purchased a farm in the hamlet of Swamp Mills, Town of Tusten, Sullivan County, New York, to which he moved in 1866.

Neumann was appointed postmaster, and set up the office in a portion of his house at the intersection of the Neumann-McHugh Road and the Mt.