History of Yakima County - Transcript (part 4).

Abstract

"September 22, 1898, Yakima Herald..And Still They Come. On Monday a large delegation of Hollanders arrived in the city from Michigan under the guidance of G. M. McKinney. There were 63 in the party. The Yakima colony is headed by Rev. Wm. Frieling and consists of Hollanders from Kent and Ottawa counties, Michigan. (In 20 year period of that time, other groups, came through railroad immigration colonization, Germans, Norwegians, French, others)."