Annie Moore
Annie Moore (born April 24, 1874 in Cork , † December 6, 1924 in Manhattan , New York ) was an Irish woman who immigrated to the USA on January 1, 1892 as the first female immigrant via the central collection point on Ellis Island .
Life
Annie Moore left the Irish port of Cobh (then Queenstown ) on December 20, 1891 with her younger brothers Philip and Anthony to follow their parents to the United States. On board the SS Nevada , they arrived in New York on December 31st to go through immigration procedures the next morning. The Nevada had been preferred to the two previously arrived ships, the City of Paris and Victoria , because the American name was better suited to the opening ceremony. There are various reports about why she was the first to disembark: The New York Times claimed it was her 15th birthday and she was therefore put forward, an Italian immigrant said he let her in because of her excitement, or a German had been pushed back because a young, English-speaking woman was more suitable as a passenger to be honored.
As the first immigrant to be welcomed to the new facility, Moore was surprised to receive the blessing of a chaplain, and the station manager presented her with a gold eagle coin worth ten dollars with the head of the Statue of Liberty on it. A mission worker gave her a silver coin, and another bystander gave her a gold coin worth five dollars.
It was long suspected that a woman of the same name, who died in a traffic accident in Texas in 1923, was identical to Moore. However, later research revealed that she was born in Illinois . In fact, Annie Moore probably never left New York City. She married a German immigrant named Joseph Augustus Schayer, with whom she had eleven children, at least seven of whom died early. Moore died of heart failure in 1924 at the age of 50 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens . The grave could only be assigned to her in 2006.
In 1993, a bronze statue of Annie Moore was erected in front of the Cobh Heritage Center and in the Ellis Island Immigration Museum to represent all migrants .
literature
- Eithne Loughrey: Annie Moore - The Golden Dollar Girl , Mercier, 2001, ISBN 185635296X .
- Sam Roberts: Story of the First Through Ellis Island Is Rewritten ; The New York Times , September 14, 2006 (English).
- Ray O'Hanlon: Putting things right. Icon Annie Moore lived, and died, in New York's hardscrabble streets ( Memento June 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ); The Irish Echo, 20.-26. September 2006, Vol. 79, No. 38 (English).
- Jesse Green: Immigrant Number One , NY Magazine, May 9, 2010.
Web links
- Ellis Iceland Foundation: Irish Immigrant First To Pass Through Ellis Iceland (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Jesse Green: Immigrant Number One . In: New York Magazine , May 9, 2012.
- ↑ See The New Immigrant Depot . In: Irish World and American Industrial Liberator (New York, NY), Jan. 9, 1892, p. 8; Issue 1,115 (accessed via Thomson Gales database “Nineteenth Century US Newspapers”).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Annie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schayer, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish emigrant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cork |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 6, 1924 |
| Place of death | Manhattan , New York City |