Hardy Swiss Pioneers Arrived Here in 1845
The 1845 Swiss migration from Canton Glarus to southwestern Wisconsin details a three month voyage across seas and rivers. Messengers Streiff and Duerst bought land in Mineral Point for 1,200 acres, guiding 12 families to New Glarus where communal laws were drafted. Dairying grew into a cooperative cheese industry as descendants stayed, keeping Swiss dialect and cowbells in daily life.
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Glarus
Wisconsin
Fridoli Streiff
Nicholas Duerst
America
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Linth Canal
Zurich
Basle
Rhine
New Deppe
Baltimore
St. Louis
Mississippi
Streiff
Duerst
Mathias Duerst
Jacob Grob
Mineral Point
Coloni
Sugar River
Galena
Judge Duers
Pittsburgh
Peter Stauffacher
New Glarus
Emmen
Switzerland
Nicholas Gerber
Fridolin Babler
Oswald Babler
Caspar Becker
Fridolin Becker
Jost Becker
Balthasar Duerst
Wisconsin Swiss and Lim Burger Cheese Producers Group
The Wisconsin Swiss and Lim burger Cheese Producers association, a Monte based cooperative, lists 116 factories in Green Dane Lafayette and Town counties with additional Iowa participation. Albert H. Sioldt of Monroe presides joined by John R. Chapman South Wayne as VP and Harvey E Thew as secretary treasurer. Directors include John Fluckiger Verona Andrew Tschudy Monroe Ray Silver Monticello M H Stauffacher Monroe J H Burke Darlington and William Lauper Hollandale. Fred Galli serves as field manager.
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Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Cheese Producers Association
Monte
Wisconsin
Iowa
Green
Dane
Lafayette
Town
Albert H. Sioldt
Monroe
John R. Chapman
South Wayne
Harvey E. Thew
Madison
John Fluckiger
Verona
Andrew Tschudy
Ray Silver
Monticello
M. H. Stauffacher
J. H. Burke
Darlington
William Lauper
Hollandale
Fred Galli
Co-Operative
Monroe Area Produces 75 Percent of Wisconsin Swiss Beer
Wisconsin state agriculture department reports 75 percent of the state's Swiss beer production totaling 48,270,000 pounds in 1949 was produced and handled in the Monroe area where Monroe is the center.
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Monroe
Wisconsin State Agriculture Department
List of Swiss Names Misspelled in OCR Fragment
A fragmented OCR line lists multiple Swiss names including Duerst Hefti Hoesli Hoesli Hoesli Legler Schindler Stauffacher Streiff Wild and other variants. The text preserves spelling errors and ambiguous punctuation across a long catalog of individuals.
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Thias Duerst
Fridolin Hefti
Fridolin Hoesli
Henry Hoesli
Marcus Hoesli
Mathew Hoesli
Fridolin Legler Sr
Fridolin’ Legler Jr
George Legler
J. Caspar Legler
Abraham’ Schindler
Balthasar Schindler
David Stauffacher
Mathias Schmid
Anton Stauffacher
Henry Stauffacher
Jacob Stauffacher
Rudolph Stauffacher
Fridolin Streiff
Hilarius Wild
Ohio Cheese Workers Honor Camembert Girl
Van Wert Ohio crowd honoring Mile Harel the Camembert girl whose cheese allegedly drew a kiss from Napoleon. Borden plant workers donate two thousand dollars to build a shrine in Camembert France to replace a 1928 statue destroyed in 1944.
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Ohio Cheese Workers
The
Associated Press
van Wert
Ohio
Napoleon
Borden
Mile
Harel
Camembert
France
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Frank A. Buehler
Carl Maurer
Green County
Kohler and
Kohler
Carter Machine Shop
L. G. Carter
Square San Conemtaanth Avenue
Emery A. Odell
Green County Historical Society
Producers’ Group
Reese Orld
John Eley
Ron
Cunsom Y Pontiac Alsor
Pontiac
Minneapolis-Moline
Oliver Tractors
Kewanee Elevators
Martin Steel Buildings
L.M. and
Mlk. Johnson
Kohli
Robert
Mrs. Anna
Fred L
F. L. Kohli
Robert W. Stuart
Robert Kohli
Kohli Printing & Office Supply Co
Chalet Theatre
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