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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Aregger, Manfred |
| Title, Analytic | From Escholzmatt, Canton Lucerne, to Chicago, Illinois: The Emigration of the Family Marbacher |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | June 2007 |
| Volume ID | 43 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 7-55, ill. |
| ISSN | 0883-4814 |
| Notes | Originally published in the Blaetter fuer Heimatkund aus dem Entlebuch, vol. 68, 2003. Translated and edited by Leo Schelbert. |
| Abstract | Documents the emigration of the extended Marbacher family, living on the Schwaendlen farm of Escholzmatt in Canton Lucerne's Entlebuch district. The core of the study is a transcription of letters written back home by Josef and Anton Marbacher. Josef was born in 1808 and immigrated around 1828 to the United States, first settling in Canajoharie on the Mohawk River in upstate New York, in 1831 moving west to Detroit, in 1836 to Chicago. In 1846 he was joined by his father Anton Marbacher. . . " Other family members followed to settle in Chicago. "The letters of Josef and Anton Marbacher describe conditions of travel, their surroundings and circumstances, and they reveal an intense sense of family loyalty, but deal only occasionally with major issues of the times. . . . The Marbacher family's emigration highlights the dimension of the migratory phenomenon that has been called chain migration." |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Swiss Americans/ Genealogy/ 19th century/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ Chicago (Ill.)/ Marbacher |