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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticShoemaker, Alfred L.
Title, AnalyticJ. Fred Wetter, Author of the Hansjoerg Dialect Column
Journal TitleJournal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies
Date of PublicationWinter 1999
Volume ID6
Issue ID1
Location in Work8, ill.
AbstractJ. Fred Wetter was born in Degerfelden, Canton Aargau, Switzerland on Nov. 17, 1846. He and his brother emigrated to America in August of 1867, where J. Fred was employed as a printer in Baltimore, Wheeling, Newark, and Pittsburgh, before settling permanently in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Here he worked for and eventually purchased the Pottsville Jefferson Demokrat. For twenty years Wetter wrote a column in Pennsylvania Dutch, which he signed D'r Hansgoerg, and which was syndicated in German-language newspapers across the country. Reprints one such column from January 1, 1952.
NotesMillersville University
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsPennsylvania-German dialect/ Pennsylvania Dutch