Letter from the Schuetz Family Documents, 1870

Title

Letter from the Schuetz Family Documents, 1870

Description

This letter comes from the Dean family collection of documents and photographs that belonged to their second maternal great-grand parents Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz, who emigrated from Switzerland in 1870 to start a new life in Humboldt, Nebraska.

A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli who also came from Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Their daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).

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Source

Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Date

1870

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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document

Language

German

Type

image

Original Format

letter

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nebc_dean_margaret_0408.jpg

Collection

Citation

“Letter from the Schuetz Family Documents, 1870,” History Harvest, accessed October 4, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/299.

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