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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticBasler, Konrad
Title, AnalyticThe Dorlikon Emigrants. Swiss Settlers and Cultural Founders in the United States: A Personal Report
Journal TitleSwiss American Historical Society Review
Date of PublicationNov. 2010
Volume ID46
Issue ID3
Location in Work1-90, ill.
ISSN0883-4814
AbstractIn the years 1738 through 1743 five families emigrated from the author's village of Dorlikon (today Thalheim an der Thur) in northern Switzerland, heading for Carolina, as the records say. No news of their fate returned. This work describes the author's search for the stories of these families (Nuessli, Basler, Weidmann, Muller, and Epprecht), who ended up in Pennsylvania, as well as for the story of Julia Beringer Huber, who had been sent to Milwaukee with her illegimate child around 1875.
NotesLaura Villiger, translator. Max Hilfiker, editor of the expanded edition. Originally published in Switzerland with the title Dorliker Auswanderer.
Call NumberMKI Periodicals
MKI TermsSwiss Americans -- Wisconsin/ Swiss Americans -- Pennsylvania/ Basler/ Epprechts/ Weidmann/ 18th century/ Huber