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Johnny Weissmuller: United States
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When Johnny was seven months old, the family emigrated to the United States aboard the S.S. Rotterdam as steerage passengers. They left Rotterdam on January 14, 1905, and arrived at Ellis Island in New York harbor twelve days later as Peter, Elisabeth and Johann Weissmuller. The passenger lists records them as ethnic Germans and citizens of Hungary. Peter had been born 1876-12-31.
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The group known as Banat Swabians - ethnic Germans who had lived for centuries in that beautiful region and developed a distinctive dialect and cultural traits of their own - counts Weissmuller as one of its most well-known sons. When Johnny was seven months old, the family emigrated to the United States aboard the S.S. Rotterdam as steerage passengers. They left Rotterdam on January 14, 1905, and arrived at Ellis Island in New York harbor twelve days later as Peter, Elisabeth and Johann Weissmuller. The passenger lists records them as ethnic Germans and citizens of Hungary. After a brief stay in Chicago, visiting relatives, they moved to the coal mining town of Windber, Pennsylvania. (For most of Weissmuller's career, show business biographies incorrectly listed him as having been born in Pennsylvania.
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The younger Weissmuller graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he was on the swim team. He joined the United States Navy, using his swimming acumen to specialize in underwater demolition.
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