![]() ![]() He was granted a homestead April 1899 in Town of Birch, Lincoln County Wisconsin. He married Elizabeth Caduff Main Ramsey County Minnesota. My Great Grandfather Hans was born January 21, 1862. Mother Ursula died at her daughter Ursula Lutzke's home October 15, 1905. ![]() Mother Ursula came to America later after her husband Hans died, 1876 in Switzerland. ![]() It doesn't look like all arrived at one time. The names are Fred, Johann, Peter, Jann Christina, Margaret, Ursula, and Eva. My Great Grandfather Johann "Hans" Waldburger son of Hans Waldburger and Ursula Ziegher Waldburger of Buchen-Luzein, along with 3 brothers and 4 sisters left for America in the 1880's. They would find a new Switzerland in the west, and their influence would soon be felt in our midst." Show Less But a society organized for that purpose should be well patronized by the more prosperous of our own people, for it would soon enable those who had aided it to get their money back.We should like to see a thousand Swiss come into Oregon in the next five years. The cost of getting them here is so great that, unless a co-operative movement were made, the project would be impossible. They would find a milder climate than they had left behind and a far better market for what they could produce.Īt the same time it is doubtful if we could get enough of them here, during the present generation, to do any good. We need a few thousand of them in the foothills of the Willamette Valley, to occupy permanently and improve a class of lands which our own race deems only fit for summer pasture.Give them the foothills on each side of the Willamette and they would soon make the mountain slopes blossom like gardens. It is a rare thing to hear of their mixing in politics, and yet, in all educational matters they take the liveliest interest. They are a busy people and yet a conservative element. They are engaged in almost every branch of business that demands industry or financial wisdom, and you never hear of one of them being in jail for theft or vagrancy. In California the Swiss residents control more wealth in proportion to their numerical strength than any other foreign element. Most people have an idea that the Swiss are by nature dairymen and cattle-breeders, when the truth is that they are a nation of mechanics, second to none in industry and genius.They are a race of skilled mechanics, in a word, and in a country like Oregon, where water power is abundant, they would soon make their presence felt in the industries they would inaugurate and in the thrift that characterizes their daily lives. If a Swiss immigration or colonization scheme could be projected at once, so as to bring out each year a hundred Swiss families to settle in the foothills of Marion, Clackamas, Linn, Lane and Douglas, it would indeed be a great thing for Oregon. Again, they are a patriotic race, throughout all ages, and their love for their grand mountains is so inherent in every heart that they are loth to leave the land where the "Ranz des Veaches" echoes from hill to hill on the mellow autumn air. To begin with they are not used to the sea, and the sea voyage across the Atlantic has terrors for them which it does not possess for men born along the coast, and habituated to maritime life and then the journey from Switzerland to Havre, and the greater on by rail from New York to the Pacific Coast, render the expense so great that we are not likely, at least for years to come, to see many of these useful people settle among us. The only people to whom the mountains of Oregon would offer any great inducement to settle among us, are the Swiss but a score of reasons mitigate against any hope of their joining fortunes with us to any great extent. ![]() "Our mountains are bleak, covered with dense forests and full of wild beasts and we can only hope to gain people from a region that is less habitable than our own. ![]()
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