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Othmar H. Ammann's Military Service, Lilly Ammann, Othmar Ammann, Gustav Lindenthal
Othmar H. Ammann's Military Service, Lilly Ammann, Othmar Ammann, Gustav Lindenthal
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Finally I get to write you a few lines from duty. As Papa probably has already informed you, I went from Basel to Monthal, where I met Mama and Werner, as well as Rosa and Manja Labhart from Moscow. Werner was very happy. He is thin but looks strong and healthy. He did not want to answer my question of whether he would like to come back to America with me after the war. But I am decided about bringing him back with me. On the same evening I also visited Onkel Hermann and David in Zurich. I also met …
Letters From 1915 To The End Of The War, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann
Letters From 1915 To The End Of The War, Othmar Ammann, Lilly Ammann
Swiss American Historical Society Review
My dear parents,
Tomorrow the last steamship that can bring you our Christmas greetings is leaving, so that means: hurry. Just a few words, but from the heart.
One is carried along here in the non-ending stream of business so much that one can hardly catch one's breath in order to appreciate the ideal side of life. However, with the approach of the holidays, spirits are lifted. With great excitement and wonderment, young and old await the festive days. What will Christmas bring, how will the New Year begin? This is what each one is asking himself and with thousands …
Reports, Leo Schelbert, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby
Reports, Leo Schelbert, Erdmann Schmocker, Carla Crosby
Swiss American Historical Society Review
REPORT
ON THE 30TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SWISS AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD ON OCTOBER 9, 1993 AT THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART IN PHILADELPHIA, PA
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Program For The Afternoon Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Agenda For The Business Meeting
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Obituaries
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Godfrey L. Munter, 96, a former judge of the D.C. Domestic Relations Court and a past president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, died of heart ailments August 9.
MURRAY LUCK (1899-1993) Dr. James Murray Luck, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a well-respected writer on Swiss history and culture, died on August 26 at his home in Menlo Park, at the age of 93.
Swiss-American Newsletter
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf
Glimpses From An Industrial Electrician's Lifetime, Ernest Thurkauf
Swiss American Historical Society Review
My life's main line of work has been as an industrial maintenance electrician, though in early years I tried my hand as blacksmith's helper, arc and acetylene welder, coal mine laborer, lumber jack, farm hand, fruit picker, and other miscellaneous work. But it was as a trained electrician that I got my greatest joy in working especially in training men in my line of work. In my old years now, I have given much thought to what have been some very challenging jobs I had encountered as I struggled onward in this best of all possible. worlds, and these are· …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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Our American Cousins, Alexandre Carron, Christophe Carron
Our American Cousins, Alexandre Carron, Christophe Carron
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In the article which follows, Alexandre and Christophe Carron, uncle and nephew, of Fully, Canton Valais, tell of their own adventure in discovering and writing about the Valaisans' immigration to North an~ South America. They have published two books, with a third under way, under the series title, Our American Cousins (Sierre, Switzerland: Edition Monographic).
Volume I (1986) presents the problem of the Valaisan emigration of the nineteenth century. It describes diverse expeditions to Algeria and Argentina, in addition to the founding and history of the V alaisan colony of San Jose in Argentina. Volume Il (1991) covers the colonization …
Valaisans All, Gordon Chapman
Valaisans All, Gordon Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Like seeds blown on winds of change.
These trees are evidence,
People, ideas, some piece of the ancient soul
Of this place, this valley, this passageway
Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration To The United States, Jane Adèle Chapman
Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration To The United States, Jane Adèle Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
In writing this paper I have had before me a mental picture of a young couple who left Martigny-Bourg in bas-Valais in the summer of 1854. They sailed from Le Havre with their small son on the new American ship Brother Jonathan to the Port of New York and continued overland to Wisconsin. The study of Valaisan emigration, of which this paper is a part, is my attempt to put this rather blurry mental picture in focus.
Profiles Of Immigration, Jane Adèle Chapman
Profiles Of Immigration, Jane Adèle Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
There is a story to tell for every Valaisan immigrant of the 19th century, but only a few can be presented below. These profiles were written by Swiss Valaisans, by American immigrants, or their descendants. They vary greatly as to source and level of detail. But even the simplest account of the facts of departure and travel reveal the enormity of the steps these immigrants took and the effect it would have on them and the generations to come..
Prefatory Note, Jane Adèle Roberts Chapman
Prefatory Note, Jane Adèle Roberts Chapman
Swiss American Historical Society Review
The theme of this issue of the Review is the 19th Century SAHS emigration from Canton Valais of Switzerland to the United States. All the materials in the issue were written by Valaisans or by American descendants of Valaisan immigrants. My own article, "Nineteenth Century Swiss Valaisan Immigration to the United States," developed from · a desire to understand the experience of my great-great grandparents who left the canton in 1854. Their final destination, according to the ship's manifest, was Mishicot, Wisconsin.
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
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A Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
A Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Greetings to All My Family:
The idea of a family history began this year when I attempted to identify my ancestors who preceded John and Anna von Gunten - an attempt to stretch backward the generations of our family tree. Other families overwhelm me with their pedigrees reaching into the 18th, even the 17th, century. So why shouldn't I trace my roots to a greater depth, hoping that our heritage would be revealed
In early 1989 I contacted a prof esmonal genealogist, asking if she would undertake a search of John's lineage. She declined, saying she did not specialize in …
A Sequel To The Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
A Sequel To The Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Greetings To All My Family,
This sequel will supplement the family history of my great grandparents, John and Anna von Gunten, which I mailed you in November 1989. A family history is never really completed - it grows and grows and gathers a life of its own. In the past year enough additional material has been generated to justify this sequel.
In that original history I briefly introduced you to Gervais von Gunten, my third cousin, of Bienne, Switzerland. Recently he retired, this permitting him to devote time and money to his avocation - genealogy. Happily for us he has …
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Prefatory Note, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
No abstract provided.
Hans Werner Debrunner, Schweizer Im Kolonialen Afrika, Leo Schelbert
Hans Werner Debrunner, Schweizer Im Kolonialen Afrika, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Review
Themes connected with Switzerland are often judged to be of only marginal significance. The Swiss nation as such certainly was no player in the European penetration and partition of the African continent. The involvement of Swiss people, furthermore, was numerically small and cannot compare with that of the Dutch or the Danes. Yet Hans Werner Debrunner's study of Swiss in colonial Africa is nevertheless of great value, especially since it is part of a set of other works he has devoted to African issues. It adds, first, much to our knowledge of Swiss migrations, understood not primarily as settlements overseas, …