Identifier: reviewofreviewsw44newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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irst considerable emigrationhowever, occurred in the early eighties, fromZahleh, a place entirely wiped out by themassacre of i860, but now the largest villagein Lebanon. These Zahleh folk went west-ward to the large cities, where they began, nodoubt, by peddling, but are now, the majorityof them, established in business. The ArabiPasha revolt in 1882 drove to this countrya number of Syrians; and there lives inNebraska to-day a home missionary who wassix years old when the awful slaughter in Da-mascus deprived him of both parents. Themajority of successful business men of theSyrian race in our Lake cities date their com-ing, or that of their parents, to the year 1882.Syrians are known to have first entered NewOrleans in 1887; and Syrian peddlers wereroaming North Dakota in 1888. The immi-grants of this period were largely of the peas-ant class, many of whom however have at-tained honorable positions in the land of theiradoption. For example, we read: 2,% THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS
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PIONEER SYRIAN IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA—PROFESSOR JOSEPH ARBEELY, HIS SIX SONS AND NIECE At an international conference held three )Xarsago in Boston, attended by fourteen hundred dele-gates, one of the most interesting speakers was aSyrian pastor of a mid-western American church.This pastor is the son of a Labanon peasant, a quar-ryman, who by such sacrifices as only those whohave been in Syria can understand, managed togive his son a year and a half of schooling in one ofthe large preparatory schools of the American Mis-sion. He was unable to send him to college, how-ever, and eventually the youth found his wayto America, landing in New York without a cent.Engaging in business, he pursued his studies as besthe could, until finally he was able to enter a theo-logical seminary. In eighteen months he com-pleted the three years course and was ordained. Many Syrians reaped a good harvest at theChicago Exposition, but lost it all in the mid-winter e.xposition at San Francisco. Theyremained

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