| The Newquist family--at least this Newquist
family, the family of John and Genevieve Newquist,
their ancestors and descendants--begins its American chapter with a story
of confidence and daring, opportunity-seeking, and, presumably, great love:
a marriage that defied convention, bringing together a Swedish Protestant
immigrant and a much younger Irish Catholic girl from Iowa. Theirs is a
story of wealth and hardship, community and severed ties, dreams
realized and dreams lost. But most of all it is about the endurance of
family. This site is devoted to discovering John and Genevieve's story--and
to learning something about ourselves along the way. |
