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Boganis In America: The American Adventures Of Karen Blixen's Father, Wilhelm Dinesen
Boganis In America: The American Adventures Of Karen Blixen's Father, Wilhelm Dinesen
The Bridge
Sick at heart and world-weary at the age of twenty-seven, Captain Wilhelm Dinesen (1845-95) turned his back on Europe and set sail for America. The year was 1872. Danish immigration was on the rise, and many immigrants dreamed of making their fortune in the land of opportunity. Dinesen had other reasons. His fortune was already secure, for he had been born to wealth and privilege. As a young man, however, he had gone to war, but war had led to defeat, and defeat to bloody civil war. How could he forget the horrors he had seen and experienced? What he …
Memoirs From A Journey In America 1872, Wilhelm Dinesen
Memoirs From A Journey In America 1872, Wilhelm Dinesen
The Bridge
It was in the late summer of 1872 when I traveled to America. I was sick of soul. I had participated in the Franco-Prussian War, had seen my hopes for redress of [ the Danish defeat of] 1864 shattered, and had then been a witness to the civil war in Paris. I was nauseated by both sides, had then lived in both Denmark and France, but I felt uncomfortable, restless, tired, worn out, weak. I doubted my own ability to achieve anything whatever, and then came some personal problems-and I gave up everything and went to America. What I thought …
Foreword, Christine De Graffenried
Foreword, Christine De Graffenried
Swiss American Historical Society Review
2010 will mark the 300th anniversary of New Bern, North Carolina. We feel most privileged that the Swiss American Historical Society (SAHS) has agreed to dedicate its November 2009 Review entirely to the Tercentenary of New Bern.
Facets Of The History Of New Bern, Michael Hill, Ansley Wegner
Facets Of The History Of New Bern, Michael Hill, Ansley Wegner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The affable climate and geography of the coastal plain of North Carolina made it an attractive settlement point for incoming Europeans. The land is relatively flat, and the rich soils are ideal for agriculture. The mild climate allowed for longer growing seasons, and a number of wide, slow-moving rivers provided both navigation and a food source. Indeed, John Lawson, the British naturalist and explorer, described North Carolina as "a country, whose inhabitants may enjoy a life of the greatest ease and satisfaction, and pass away their hours in solid contentment."
The Enmeshment Of Five Worlds, 1710-1713: The Making Of New Bern In Southern Iroquoia, Leo Schelbert
The Enmeshment Of Five Worlds, 1710-1713: The Making Of New Bern In Southern Iroquoia, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On September 29, 1710, a hundred and three people - among them their leader Christoph von Graffenried and his son Christoph jr. - arrived at a river the Tuscarora called Gow-ta-no, meaning "pine water." 1 When in 15 84 reconnoitering the coast between what his people named Cape Fear and Cape Lookout, the English captain Arthur Barlowe (?-?) called it Neus River, possibly derived from the name of the Neusiok people living at its mouth,.2 The newcomers were from Canton Bern, a leading member state of the Swiss Confederacy, and they intended to settle in a region located on the …
Letters Of Swiss Immigrants From New Bern, 1710 -1711, Vincent H. Todd, Translator, Hedwig Rappolt, Translator
Letters Of Swiss Immigrants From New Bern, 1710 -1711, Vincent H. Todd, Translator, Hedwig Rappolt, Translator
Swiss American Historical Society Review
HANS RUEGSEGGER: I am in hopes that within a year I'll have over 100 head of horses, cattle, and pigs.
Next to my friendly greetings I report to you that I and my household arrived in Carolina safe and sound, and luckily at that, but on the 26th of Hornung [February] my son HanB died with great longing for the Lord Jesus. However on the last of Haying-Month [July] 1710, my daughter gave birth to a beautiful young son. We are on truly good and fat land; I am in hopes that within the year I'll have over 100 head …
Heinrich Handschin: A Man Wants To Climb Up
Heinrich Handschin: A Man Wants To Climb Up
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Barely back in Basel Handschin met Bernhard Lerch (1811-1904), a ribbon manufacturer and Swiss entrepreneur from Moscow, who was looking for a weaving master for his firm. This meeting was to become a fateful tum in Handschin' s development. Bernhard Lerch offered the young and well-qualified Handschin a position, he accepted and in 1856 traveled to Moscow where he was to spend the next 25 years.
Heinrich Handschin: Finally Independent
Heinrich Handschin: Finally Independent
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In the first years Heinrich Handschin lived extremely modestly, spent as little as possible and seemed to work untiringly. Because he lived so frugally, he was able to save several hundred rubles, approximately sfr. 2,300.00, which he then invested in his own enterprise. When Lerch Inc. moved into a new factory on the outskirts of Moscow in 1859, he sold a part of his old building to his manager Handschin. Thus, after Morf and Lerch the property changed into the hands of the third Swiss entrepreneur and was still used for the production of textiles.
Heinrich Handschin: Heinrich Handschin's Death
Heinrich Handschin: Heinrich Handschin's Death
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The last years of "the Muscovite Handschin" as he was called in the Basel area, were darkened by illness.
Heinrich Handschin: His Last Will
Heinrich Handschin: His Last Will
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On June 16, 1894, the President of the Cantonal Executive of Canton Basel-Landschaft received a telegram sent by the clerk of the Basel Civil Court: "You are requested to send a delegate this afternoon in order to receive important information from the Last Will of Heinrich Handschin from Rickenbach, deceased today." 19 In his last Will of October 5, 1993, Heinrich Handschin designated the Canton of Basel-Landschaft as his primary heir. He also made bequests to many charitable institutions and to relatives from near and far. This will had been drawn up by Dr. Wilhelm Vischer, a notary public in …
Heinrich Handschin: Heinrich Wiesner
Heinrich Handschin: Heinrich Wiesner
Swiss American Historical Society Review
I was born on July 1, 1925, in Zeglingen; my father was a small farmer and quarry worker. At the end of Bezirksschule[ corresponds to junior high school with a more demanding curriculum than 5th to 8th grade, at that time it was only found in larger towns] I did not see any possibilities for learning a profession. My teacher decided to send me to teachers' college [Lehrerseminar]. This meant great financial burdens and I needed four different scholarships. The result: I learned for money, not for life. Each trimester I had to appear at the Education …
The Handschin Foundation: Liquidation
The Handschin Foundation: Liquidation
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The Basel assets of Heinrich Handschin were speedily liquidated. Jakob Wirz renounced the right to buy the house at the Schtitzenmattstrasse, and the Handschin household was liquidated at an auction and the property was sold for the Foundation. Only the disbursing of the legacies of sfr. 25,000.00 to relatives who had not been mentioned in the will took until 1895 because these people also had to prove that they were indeed relatives.
The Handschin Foundation: Organization Of The Foundation
The Handschin Foundation: Organization Of The Foundation
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Now the assets of the Foundation were clear: at the end of 1894 it amounted to 1,222,200.00. Already on November 24, 1894, the Cantonal Executive passed a bill containing the first by-laws of the Foundation and appointed the members of the first board. On January 8, 1895, the board met for the first time.
The Handschin Foundation: Executive Order Of 1993
The Handschin Foundation: Executive Order Of 1993
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Executive Order regarding the Handschin Foundation of March 9, 1993 SGS 365.21 I GS 31.190
The Handschin Foundation: Members Of The Board
The Handschin Foundation: Members Of The Board
Swiss American Historical Society Review
On the basis of §2 of the 1894 By-laws there the following persons were presidents of the 5 member board
The Handschin Foundation: Foundation Revenues And Their Uses
The Handschin Foundation: Foundation Revenues And Their Uses
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Foundation assets at the end of 1985 amounted to Sfr. 1,275,982.00
At the end of 1992 they had increased to 2,365,039.50