(From Bernard IV interview notes with Anna Korn McCauley)

• Sailed from Hamburg Germany on a freighter- had missed their passenger ship for which they had passenger reservations. Received a full or partial refund. (A point Anna would be sure to want remembered)
•  Probably sailed sometime between 1911 and June 1912 (Anna said she was conceived in the old country) March, April, May, probably a better bet.
• Went to Pennsylvania first to work in the coal mines.  It was said that when Grandma (Julia Korn) saw how filthy they returned from work and saw them coming in and out of the mines “like rats” she said they were leaving and went to Troy, NY. to work in a rag factory.  There they learned of work in a piano factory in Castleton, NY that also made wooden toys.  Went there and got work. Lived in a house on brick factory road south of village- (perhaps in village) Road Parallelled a stream.
• Grandma’s Cast Iron Kitchen Stove came on a barge from Troy.
• Family purchased a car in which Grandpa Koryn drove with a license Anna was the first official driver.

In her later years Anna admitted to driving (wittingly or un-wittingly) bootleg alcohol to Albany as police were not likely to suspect women drivers.  She was told to park the car in a certain location and shop for a while.  Then she would return home.  

As I write out these notes, I also remember Anna Korn McCauley saying the Micheal Korn was a valet to a Polish General. The General was concerned that there were tensions in Europe and that a war could break out.  Micheal left his post to come to America to get away from the tensions and enlistment. Could it be that they did not miss their boat, but rather a freighter was a more discreate way to travel?