Pg 31-37 (themselves a digest of a longer section from "Portraits of our Past: Jews of the German Countryside) depict the descendants of Joseph Weil and Fanny Kauder from Ckyne in Michigan (esp Ann Arbor) during the 1800s. This gives a detailed picture of emigrant life, collaboration between (five) brothers and how their diligence brought increased prosperity as the decades passed.
Jacob Weil in particular, trained as a rabbi in Prague, was offered a position as chair of the Language Dept at U Michigan (turned down because of commitments to the family business), served as alderman in Ann Arbor and was nominated to run for mayor.
... from Michigan Jewish History http://www.michjewishhistory.org/pdfs/vol44.pdf
