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History of the Bettschen Family ^AND ITS CONNECTIONS^

G ENEALOGICAI. BIOGRAPHIC AL AND PTCTORIAI.

BY GOTTLIEB BETTSCHEN 1910

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Genealogical, Biographical and Pictorial HISTORY ofthe BETTSCHEN FAMILY

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BV OOTTLIEB BETTSCHEN

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Little did I think fifteen years ago, when of which could be obtained reliable mtorma-

first I conceived the idea of writing a gen- tion. Many kinsfolk were found both in eology of the Bettschen relationship; what it Europe and America who gladly assisted in meant to find, gather, look up, arrange and the promotion of the gigantic undertaking. put into proper shape all the particulars in To all of them I wish to render my heartfelt connection with a family so old, numerous thanks and wish to make especial mention of and widely scattered. Although, seemingly a my dear friends David Bettschen of Klien, long time has passed since the first efforts to Samuel Bettschen of Reutigan, Christian gather data, yet during that time a contin- Bettschen of Thun, Alfred Bettschen Mon- ual correspondence has been carried on. Let- treaux and Mr. Bettschen the banker of Inter- ters of inq^uiry were sent and trips were made lacken, all in Canton Bern, Switzerland. I and both time and money freely spent for the also wish to render thanks to all who assist- purpose of ascertaining and securing the ne- ed in this work living in the United States cessary knowledge for this work. Several and Canada. Especially do I appreciate the trips were taken to the United States and in help rendered by my beloved cousin David 1909 a trip was made to Europe, going from Bettschen, Vohlethill, Ontario, Will. F. place to place searching church books, ar- Bettschen, New Richland, Minnisota, chives, old documents, tomb stones and aged and the affectionate friends in Hajnil- people, making use of every available source ton, Ont. Great credit is due to my niece. Mrs. Isabella Becker of Olean, X. V., who As vears roll around and time passes, has done much toward completing this work. changes take place, tradition ceases, genera- This most estimable lady besides attending tion after generation come and go, the won- to her household duties and doing other der increases with regard to things of form- work, devoted both time and talent to get er times; it will be then that people, yet un- this work ready for the press. No financial known will read with profound interest the advantage has been in view, but a desire to, previous record of that branch of the human relationship, familv belong to. May this work there- if possible, bring about a closer thev prove to be a benefit to all those inter- greater svmpathy and a better social feeling fore ested; a blessing to evervone who reads it. among the entire family. Some of those who No one unacquainted with the details of will read this geneology will be pleasingly such an effort can fullv appreciate the labor surprised when they learn the extent of their and time involved in the undertaking. The spread over a large relation; how thej^ are compiler hopes that this volume will promote area both in Europe and in America, when our family associations and bring those kin- they find out how that some of their hither- dreds who are far apart into closer touch, as to unknown ancesters were in high social well as those living near each other and not great care has been ex- standing, holding responsible offices and mov- acquainted. Although ercised to prevent errors, in a work so multi- ing in honorable society, as well as persons furious, it can hardly be expected that slight who left behind records of pious Christian errors have not crept in. On the whole, how- lives and charitable acts, the now dorment ever its authenticity may be relied upon. sympathy l\-ing in the human heart will be Respectfully, The Compiler, awakened and a warm feeling of love created toward many of whom they had never heard. A. D. 1910. New Dundee, Ont. :soiiixas of Inronncifion

1st. —Archieves and church records. bach, Sagerei and Holzhandel; Mr. J. Bettsch- en, Interlacken, Banker; Christian Bettschen, 2nd. —Graveyard tombstone inscriptions. Thun, Real Estate Dealer; Albert Bettschen, 3rd. Old document papers and writings. — Grier, Canton Freiburg, Tourist Hotel; Will- 4th. —Paintings, pictures and family iam Bettschen, Watenwille, Contractor Road Bibles. Improvement; Gritly Bettschen, Frutigan, Re- tired Lady; Victor Egger, Kandersteg, Hotel, 5th.—Engraved names, dates and verses on old buildings. for Tourists; Fritz Traxel, Frutigan, Garden- er and Overseer of Timber; Gottlieb Traxel, 6th. —Old people, what they knew. Frutigan, Zivil Schreiber, (Registrar); Zivil- 7th. —Traditional information. stand Klossner, Reichenbach, Gemeinde sch- Aares, Retired Lady; 8th.—What I heard from my grandfather, rieber; Susanna Nurner, my father and mother. Samuel Stotler, Kandergrund, Amts schrieb- er; Kobi Bruegger, Kandergrund, Bauer, 9th. — Correspondence with all concerned. (Farmer); Johanna Bettschen, Montreaux, loth.—Three trips to the United States. Tourist Hotel; Samuel Pieren, Adelboden, nth.—One trip to Europe. Baker.

The following friends assisted In Europe. Those from America.—David Bettschen, —Samuel Bettschen, of Reutigan, Oberschwells Voilet HOI, Ont., Farmer; John Bettschen, Master; David Bettschen of Kien, bei Reichen- Dashwood, Huron Co., Ont., Mason; David Bettschen, Minnesota, Farmer; William F. Schroeder, Hamilton, Ont., Retired Lady; Bettschen, Dentist, Minnesota; John Bettsch- Mrs. Isabella Becker, Olean, N. Y., Command- en, West Cairo, Allen Co., Ohio, Nurseryman; er L. O. T. M. of the world and Sen. Vice- Joseph Bettschen of Regina; Ferdinand Bet- Treas. of the M. R. C. of Olean, N. Y.; Ed- tschen, Vancouver, B. C, Store keeper and win Miller, Belleville, Kans., Alderman and Office Furniture; Charles Von Gunten, Jewel- Shoestore; Alexander Von Gunten, Jeweler,

er, Blenheim, Ont.; Meda Von Gunten, Ham- Chatham, Ont. ilton, Out., Retired Lady; Mrs Louisa KANbER - u. ENQSTLIGEMTHAL ..jsa.lL J i'anoramic Bird's Eye View of the Fmetig Thaal and its surroundings, C'anton Bern, Switzerland, seen from a mountain near Interlaken, East of the Thaal.

EXPLAXATION OF THE MAP OF FRUTIG 8. KANDER FLUSS (stream.) THAAL, KANDER GRUND, ENGST- 9. ENGSTLICHBACH, running down LICHGRUND, and THE MOUNTAINS through Adelboden. IN THE BACKGROUND, WEST- WARD. 10. KIENA BACH, running down Kien Thaal in a northerly direction. Fig. I. LOETCHBERG range, along the S. E. side of the Thaal. 11. THUN, a small city at the north end of the See of the same name, 30 miles 2. MORGENBERG range along the east- S. E. from the City of Bern. erly end of the Thaal. 12. SPIETZ, a town at the S.W. ani;le of 3. NIESEN nange along the N. westerly the junction of the Rern, side, dividing Frutig from Simmen Thaal, the Thuner See, at with the Niesen point at the easterly end. Interlaken and Frutig R. R.

4. LOHNER range, dividing Engstlich- 13. MUEI/ENEN, from where the electric grund from Kandergrund. bergban starts and ascends the eastern slope of the Niesen to its top; just being construct- 5. THUNER SEE, northerly from the ed in east end of the Thaal. 1909. town. (S. AESCHINEN SEE, up on the Loetch- 14. REICHENBACH berg range near Kandersteg dorf, 5302 feet 15. AESHI, upon a plateau of the Mor- high. genberg, a town.

7. BLAU SEE, in Kandergrund on the 1 6. KlEN dorf, at the entrance of the right side of the Kander, in the I^ohner range Kien Thaal. i;. FRUTIGEN dorf. 28. MiTHOIvTZ, the old home of the Bruegger family where David Bettschen's wife i8. KANDERSTEG dorf, at the uj per was born in 1770. end of the Kander griind, 4,000 feet high. 29. CHURCH im Kandergrund. 19. ADELBODEN dorf, at the upper eu'l of Engstlich grund, the highest town in the 30. WATERWORKS for power purposes. State, 4,520 feet high. 31. OEY, the old Klopfenstein home, where Abraham lived. 20. MAIN ROAD from Frutigen to Kan- dersteg. 32. SCHWAENDLY, the home of Adu- dant Bettschen. 20)/. TELLENFEI.D, between Frutigen and Reybruegg. 33. AARIS, the old David Bettschen home for centuries, where D. Bettschen the 21. KANDERBRUEGG dorf. pioneer, was born 1782. 22. REYBRUEGG. 34. DAVID BETTSCHEN, the sawmiU-

23. SCHLOSS TELLENBURG (cast'.e . er's home.

the 24. GALGE HUEBEL (execution hill.) 35. NIEDERFELD, where barn stands, built bv Statthalter Reyter in 1800. 25. WIDDI feld— flats. 36. NIESEN summit, the terminus of the 26. BOERTLI, Kobi Bruegger's house. Bergban (electric.)

27. LOETCHBERG tunnel. 37. BERN, Thun and Frutig R. R. 38. LOETCHBERG tunnel temporary 49. DEXSE ORIGIXAL Thanen wald. R. R. 50. EXGSTLICH FALL.

39. HIGHWAY from Reichenbach to 51. FOOTPATH up the perpendicular pre- Frutigen and from there to Adelboden (new.) cipice to the Engstlich Alp. 40. OLD ROAD from Reichenbach to 52. DISMAL THAXEN WALD, at the Kien and Kandersteg. end of Kander grund. 41. ROAD from Reichenbach back up the 53. ROAD rising up, leading to the Gem- Kien Thaal. mi pass. 42. HIGHWAY from Trutigen to Kan- 54. RL^GGED unpopulated mountain dersteg. regions.

43. COLLECTIOX of stone, ground and -ALPHABETICAL EXPLAXATIOX. trees, caused by a mountain hail storm.

44. KLEIX THOXER mountain. a. ALTELS GLACIER 12,120 feet high.

45. GROSS THOXER mauntain 10,181 b. GEMMI PASS 7,740 feet high. feet high. c. DAUBEX SEE. 46. HASIJ GAESLI. d. SCHWARMBACH ALP, where 3 sehn 47. GASTERX THAAL and stream. huetten, 6 men and 146 cattle perished in a detached piece of glacier. 48. BERG HOTEL and road leading moment by a a district. from Adelboden to the Lenk e. STEG HORX 10,502 feet high. f. TSCHINGBLOCHTIG HORN, 9,132 ft s. LENK LOCALITY, in the Simmen high. Thaal.

g. ENGSTLICHEN ALP, 6,460 ft., with CAPITAL LETTERS. sunflner hotel Marmot. A. MDRGHNBERG RANGE, east of Frutigen. h. WILD STRUBEL glazier, 10,841 feet high. B. KITCHFLUS PASS, Morgenberg range. i. FIZZER mountain, 8,49 1 feet high, C. SOFTINGEN FI'RGE, Morgenberg j. HANEMAS mountain, 6,511 ft. high, Range. k. OESCHINEN HORN 11,631 feet high. D. TECH SPIES FLUH, Niesen range 1. BLUEMLISALB (Flowersalve) 11,000 between Frutigen and Simmen Thaal. feet high. E. KO-NIESEN, Niesen Range between m. SUMMITS, points and horns. Frutigen and Simmen Thaal. n. HORN, a bare rock towering GENI F. MAEXLY FLUH, Niesen range be- higher tfaam the rest. tween Frutigen and Simmen Thaal.

o. TOPS- on the Niesen range. H. GSUERR, Niesen Range, between

p. SIMMEN STROM in the Siimnen Frutigen and Simmen Thaal. Thaal. G. ELSIGHORN, Lohner range.

q. ZWErzlMMEN, in the Simtnen Thaal. L. RUINS upon a steep hiH in a dense r. DIEMTIGEN, in the Simmen Thaal. forest in Kien. The irregular strokes along the mountain its northerly end with the same name, the slopes indicate the timber limit. Above them towns of RchertzHchen, Spietz, Muelenen and

is the bare blue rock belt indicated by the Reichenbach, all along the rushing Kander bare space. Above that are the peaks, horns and the Bemer Frutig R. R.; with the hund-

and glaziers, the peaks being marked by ob- reds of thousands of fir trees on all the

long strokes along the mountain ranges. The mountain sides. This is so charming that the dotted places are covered with growing for- stranger only with reluctance ceases to look. est trees, tallest and thriftiest at the bottom, Turning toward the west and south-west, he

and shortest and scrubbiest at the top. meets with still more wonderful scenery.

The famous Frutig Thaal lies like an open Frutig Thaal, so called on account of its book before him. The Thaal is a beautiful rich and fruitful soil, is about 50 m.iles south concave. Through its centre rushes the noisy of the city of Bern, in the centre of the Bemer blue Kander. Along and parallel with it is Oberland. By ascending one of the high the Bern, Thun and Frutig R. R., many trains points like the Geri Horn at the easterly end, running smoothly and without noise both Loetchberg range near the entrance to the ways. Parallel and nearer the foot hills of the Kien Thaal, a panoramic view presents itself Niesen range is the Reichenbach and Frutig to the gaze of the stranger not easily describ- highway, alive with travelers both on foot ed, the majestic Niesen at the N. E. end of and with teams. Along the bottom of the the range running as far up as Adelboden. lower plateau on the S. easterly side of the Farther in the North are seen the charming Kander is the old hedge road, with as many Thntrer See with its adjoining mountains curves ?n it as it can have. This road leads along the North shore, the pretty town at from Reichenbach through Kien to the Rey-

CANADIANADlPAi bruegg.and joins the Kandersteg highway. higher are the white glistening peaks so The whole bottom part of the Thaal is dot- dazzling that the sight seems to border on ted, from end to end, with houses, every one to the sublime when the morning sun shines standing in its own angle, all, however, hav- against and over them. ing the gabel end toward the mountain Surrounded thus by a perfect combina- slope. Some are up nearly as high as the tion of natural alpine sceneries, curiosities timber limit. The steep mountain sides are and wonders crowded into the mind by the covered with original pine forests and only vision and increased by the thundering sounds the more accessible parts are in use. The of descending streams falling over lofty rocks trees at the bottom are tall and beautiful; into narrow jungles below, and the surging the farther up the shorter. The upper parts noise caused bv the rapid descent of torrents are picturesque, the whole being of a deep of water dashing against a thousand broken green hue. Through the thickly populated rocks, as well as the pleasing musical chime valley can be seen thousands of fruit and or- coming from dozens of metallic bells carried namental trees standing by themselves much by hundreds of cattle pasturing upon the high to the beautification of the country. Dozens alpen, the mind becoming saturated almost of small streamlets come down the slopes, beyond its capacity, the stranger gets amaz- having their origin either at the alpen, along ed perplexed and begins to wonder the tim.ber limit, or still higher among the and glaziers, where is seen the bare blue rock, whether it is realitv, ot, whether the great mostly perpendicular rocks where no animal strain upon his nerve sj'stem by the laborious nor vegetable life exists, excepting once in a and fatiguing ascention has put him to sleep Still •while a stray Gemse or Lamer Geyer. and he is dreaming. At the dorf Frutigen the Thaal is divided 6460 feet high and form the double Engstlich- into the ^ngstlich grund on the right and the en waterfall, a most interesting sight. At

Kander grund on the left, by the Gross and the bottom is a rocky evergreen forest

Klein Lohner mountain range. Adelboden dorf through which it winds its way to Adelboden 4,520 feet high, is 12 miles from Frutigen near and down through crooked, narrow gorges the upper end of the Engstlich Thaal. It is a to Frutigen, and about a mile below joins the

'great tourist, gentry, and sporting resort, Kander where it loses its name. In Adelbod- both sumjner and winter. It is on the north en town the main road from Frutigen divides side of the Engstlichen Bach, partly on the into two. The one running in a northwester- slope and at the foot of the mountain range. ly direction leads over the mountains to the The Thaal ends about one and a half miles Lenk district, the other, a foot-path, goes up farther at the bottom of the Engstlichen Alp the almost perpendicular fluh zig-zag, and fluh. The whole valley from Frutigen is nar- terminates on top near the summer hotel row and in places more wild and romantic Marmet on the Alp. The Kander starts in than between Frutigen and Reichenbach. the rugged and narrow Gastern Thaal far There are curious caves, cascades and bridges. above Kandersteg. Various small creeks The Engstlichen stream derives its main come down from icefields upon the awful supply from the wild strubel glazier ic',841 glazier Alt Els and gather in a narrow gorge feet high, still farther west. Sm.all rivulets high precipices on both sides. No vegetation; are running down in many places from the rock, water and sky are the only elements upper parts of the ice-covered mountain. At visible. About a mile from the road leading the foot of the glazier they run together and from Kandersteg to the Gemmi, there is a shoot over the brink of the Engstlich Alp stream of water shooting out of a high rock half way up. Xo one knows exactly where it supply from the eastern part of the famous has its derivation, but the writer thinks it is Bluemlisalb glazier and runs north. the outlet of the mysterious Dauben See, sev- Frutigen eral miles farther up. That sea is fed by a The main road from crosses the stream coming down from the Lamnver Kander at Reybruegg and terminates at Kan- dersteg tunnel narrow zig-zag rocky glazier and has no visible outlet, hence the and a road leads up the steep fluh, passing the theory that the water follows a vein of crev- Schwarenbach summer hotel, and follows a ices inside the mountain through which it south-westerly course and ends up at the runs and finallv escapes in the Gastern Thaal. Gemini pass feet high. The Blau See is The Gastem stream runs in a northerly dir- 7,740 a small, deep, blue, cold, clear water lake in ection and falls from one clus to another, the midst of a place containing hundreds of foaming and dashing as it rapidly descends broken rocks m.ostly the size of a common to the end of the Kander Thaal. From Kan- house. Thev have in times past come down dersteg it keeps on its wild and turbulent higher rock tumbled and to'ur over rocks, through crevices, dashing, from some and foaming and roaring at a great rate when at rolled and heaped up in every imaginable shape mostly covered with thick moss. Pine last it reaches the Reybrnegg. The Oeaschin- trees of all ages are standing thick together. en See is supplied bj' the great Bluemlisalh Surrounded like that the sea with neither in glazieir and a brook is running out of it down nor outlet is a wonder, into the Kander. Many smaller brooks are both dismal and pic- running down both sides and into the Kan- turesque, full of speckled trout. IManv other der. The Kiena bach also runs into the Kan- curiosities are in the Thaal. The Felsenburg der through the Kiena ThaaU It has its is an old castle up high, nothing remaining but high walls, the secret underground gang- in length, when it is completed and a R. R. ways and the fast entrances that could onlj- built from Frutigen up the Kander Thaal and be opened and closed from the inside are still through the tunnel and connected with the R. to be seen. Many centuries have passed since R. passing through the Simplon, a complete it was the habitation of governors and rul- R. R. line is then in operation from St. Pet- ers. The Muran washed down from an Alp ersburg in Russia, across the continent of by a torrent caused by a terrible hail storm Europe, passing through Russia, Germany, reaches from the Alp down to the Kander. Switzerland, Italy, and as far as to the At the lower end it is about a half mile wide. Mediterranean Sea. Far up In the back-

The farther up the narrower it becomes in ground from the S. W. to the N. \V. are tht- places ten to fifteeji feet high composed of Alt Els glazier (a) 12, 120 feet high. The earth, stones and trees, the stones varying Gemmi pass (.b) 7,740 feet, the Dauben Sec from the size of an egg to that of a parlor (c), the Schwarenbach Alp (d), where m 1S93 stove. The timber has been taken awav noth- three Sehn Huetten (cheese huts) six men and ing but stone and earth remaining. The one hundred and forty six cattle were de water viaduct taking it up several hundred stroved in a moment bv the falling of a feet for producing electric power is a fine detached portion of ice coming down from the piece of work. Alt Els glazier.

The Loetch Berg tunnel is one of the The Steg Horn (E) ten thousand five most interesting as well as important liundred and two ft. high, can plainly be seen achievements. It enters the mountain and On its eastern slopes arc the Lamnier aiid will terminate in the Walis Thaal nine miles Rote Kuuimer glaciers. The Tschingelochtig Horn (f) with its re- fields and all joining at the brink, and tumb- markable natural monument of solid rucks, ling down over the precipice into the abyss towering perpendicularly to the hei,i,!:i of below, forming a beautiful waterfall in two nine thousand one hundred and thirly-Lwo sections, the upper and the lower. The Alp is

feet, is a wonder in and by itself. From il? parallel with the timber limit and is capable pinnacle a circumspective panoramic view can of pasturing from three to four hundred cows be had that cannot be imagined and less during summer, there being seven Sehn Huet- described. On all sides are dozens of sum- ten (cheese huts) and a summer hotel. All

mits, points, horns, and glaciers, intersected the cheese made is carried down by men to b}' valleys, gaps and gorges, a picture cur- Adelboden. In Winttr no one lives there. ious, awful, wonderful and beautiful, once seen never to be forgotten. The great rugged and only partly explor- ed and unknown Wild Strubel (h) so called on

Engstlichen Alp (g) six thousand, four account of its wild and rugged surface, 10,841 hundred and sixty feet high, so-called on ac- ft, high, forms the rear of the Alp. This icy count of the anxiety experienced in its ap- desert has been visited by adventurers and proach, incased by the Tschingel Mount, on expert Berg fuerer (mountain guides); only

the South, the Fizir on the north and the Very few have ever penetrated far into the in- great Wild Strubel, with its slopes filled with terior of its highest parts. Indeed some plac- glistening snow and ice, and its summit cov- es have never yet been trod bv human feet. ered over three hundred feet thick with per- petual ice. The Alp being traversed by a The Fizzer (i) 8,491 feet high, at the nor- dozen streamlets coming down from the ice- thern side of the Alp is also an uninhabited region. The Hanemous (j) so called .on ac- second highest mountain in Europe, in the S. count of much moss found on the rocks, is E. 15.451 ft. high, the Leucher Bad (Hot westerly from the Lenk district, in the upper Spring) directly in front, way down in the South West part of the Simmen Thaal. The valley the scene thus presenting itself to the Gemmi pass (,b) is where the rocks are broken Wew at the hotel looking from S. W. to S. E. and it is possible to cross the mountain range can hardly be surpassed in grandeur and from the Walis Thaal to the Frutig Thaal. At dazzling beauty especially at sunrise when the that point it is called Duba (a pigeon) be- raj-s meet, the numerous and varied shaped cause the two high pointed rocks between ice and snow fields, resembling a thousand gi- which the hotel Wilstrubel stands resemble gantic diamonds sparkling forth their rainbow the two wings of a pigeon. At this hotel, hues and tints and the spectator is forced to 7,740 feet elevation, can be seen summits of exclaim: the famous Walis berg, 62 in number, of which 49 are glaziers, in a radius of from 20 "Who has made this gorgeous wonder, to 180 miles distant, all the way from Mount God alone has got the power. Blanc 16,031 feet high, the highest mountain To break the rocks with might asunder. in Europe, in the S. W., to Mt. Rose, the And place them there mid flash and thunder."

FAMILY TREE A RECORD OF THE ^ETTSCHEN RELATIONSHIP AUTHENTICALLY

I, a. David BettSChen, Bergfuehrer (Moun- meyer and Elsbeth Kuentzi, born 1770.

tain guide), born 1723 at Aaris. Oberampt David was a watchmaker ; they lived at (Parish) Reichenbach, Canton Bern, Swit- the Reuebruegg, there were six children; of

zerland ; was married to.. (Biography), and them hereafter... (see Biography).

Johanes Bettschen is a brother. III, c. Johanes, born May 16th, 1784. His

1, b. David Bettschen, Pattraueilauer (Pat- first wife was Elisabeth Reichen with whom roleman) was a son of the Bergfuehrer he had one daughter Elisabeth. His second wife was Suesana Roesti, daughter of and born 1753 at Aaris; was married to Gilgian Roesti, with whom he had seven Magdalena Mueller from Lauterbruenen. children. Of them hereafter. He was a They lived at Fruetigen. Their children blacksmith and lived at the Reuebruegg.

were ; IV, c. Mariani, called Dante, sister of David I, c. Magdalena, born 1780 at Fruetigen. In Bettschen, remained single; see Biography. 1828 she married Gilgian Zuercher at Schwandi. V, c. Maria, born Sept. 27th, 1789, and was II, c. David, born Oct. 6, 1782, at Fruetigen, married to Daniel Muerner of Aaris, the was married to Elsbeth Bruegger from oldest brother of Senator Samual Muerner Mithohz in Kandersteg. She was a of New Hamburg, Ont. Their children daughter of Jacob Bruegger Alt Kirch- were; of them hereafter. VI, c. Maria Elisabeth, born January 1st, New Dundee Ont, where Jacob died in 1797, married Jon von Gunten, a watch- 1869, buried in Rosebank cemetary, and maker at Sigrisvil. They have eight chil- Elisabeth his wife in 1888; they had ten dren; of them hereafter. children ; of them hereafter, (see Biography).

VII, c. Susana, was married to Aplenalp at IV, d. Christian, born May 17th, 1810, at the Meiringen. He was a mountain guide. Reuebruegg, Switzerland, came with the family to America in 1825. In 1831, May (II c) DAVID BETTSCHEN 3rd, he was married to Maria Krueger. He WATCHMAKERS CHILDREN was a tailor and they first lived in the town of Berlin, Upper Canada. From there they I, d. David, died when 21 and single, at the Reuebruegg. moved to Wisconsin and from there to Lake county, Illinois, on a farm, where he II, d. Johanes, born Nov. 10, 180.5, was an died in May, 1862. His widow died in Sept. instrument maker and died in the city of 1890. They had eight children; of them New Vork, single. hereafter.

III, d. Jacob, born May 8th, 1808, at the V, d. Gottlieb, born April 6th, 1813, at the Reuebruegg. In 1825 he came with his Reuebruegg, came with the family to parents to New York, then to Dundas, N. York and then to Dundas, then to the Upper Canada, then to the Township township of Wilmot, county Waterloo,

Wilmot, where he located and in 1830 Ont., was married on Sept. 25th, 1842, to married Elisabeth Klofferstein, Abraham's Katharine Forler, daughter of John and daughter. They lived on a farm at Katharine Forler from Elsas, France. He

Johan von (nintcn, Hamiltim, OiUarici, brother-in-law of David Bettschen, watchmaker.

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John Bttt^;lu^. Hi_-h School teacher in Fnietigen, Canton Bern, son of Jol\anes Bettschen, blacksmitli.

Fritz Traxel, wite and family, Fruetigen, Switzerland (19(19,1. Fritz Traxel is a son of Gilgian, the strong, and of his third wife, who was a daug-hter of Johannes Bettschen, the blacksmith, who was a brother of David Bettschen, the watchmaker. They all lived at the Reybruegg. The wife of Fritz Traxel is from

Lenk ; her maiden name was Mede Bettschen, and is a handsome woman. They have a nearly grown-up family.

was a blacksmiih; they first lived in the CHILDKEX OF SECO.VD WIFE! township of Wilmot, from there they II, d. Gritly, bom 1829, lives at Fruetigen moved to Wellesley on a farm, from there and unmarried. to township Haj- where they farmed. He died April •28th, 1883, in the' town of Niles, III, d. Johanes, born Oct. 24th, 1821, died Michiofan. They had eight children; of Dec. 27th, 1886. He was an educated them hereafter. man and high-school teacher. Has left a

VI, d. Gilgian, born Oct. 3rd, 18U, at the good record behind, died a bachelor at Reuebruegg, Switzerland, came with his Fruetigen. parents to .America in 1825, in 1834 was IV, d. Friderick, born July 25th, 1824, died married to Mary Hall, an English lady from Sept. 13th, 1890. Yorkshire, England. They first lived on a farm in the township of Wilmot, county of y, d. Susana, born Dec. 2)th, 1825, married Waterloo. From here they moved in 1841 Nov. 30, 1855, Gilgian Traxel, the strong, to Pilkington, county Wellington, about at Reuebruegg, whose third wife she was. ten miles north of the city of Guelph, on a She had four children; of them hereafter., farm, where he died in 1889 and his wife (see Biography). in 1893. They had ten children; of them VI, d. Susana Katarina, born Nov. 6, 1836, hereafter. married to Johan Christian Foss from HI, c. JOH.WES BETTSCHEN Balg, May 21st, 1864. In 1909 she was BLACKS.MITH'S CHILDREN living at St. Imer, a widow. I, d. Elisabeth, daughter of first wife Elisa- VII, d. Elsbeth.... beth Reychen, born July 5th, 181 4, had one daughter Elisabeth, died March 19th, 1839; \'1I1, d. Rosina, a widow at Nurenburg in of her hereafter. 1909, Hying.

—23— V, c. MARIA MUERNER'S CHILDREN 1828. Retired and went to Thun in Switz- erland where he died. They had I, d. Susana, born 1829. ..is a maid and living 7 children. in Aaris.

II, d. Jacob, is working in a foundry at V, d. Charles L, born 1834, married to interlaken.

Mary Garret ; lived in Chatham ; was

watchmaker and jeweller ; died. .They had VI, c. MARIA ELISABETH VON GUNTEN'.S three children; of them hereafter (see CHILDREN. Biography).

I, d. Mariana, married to Samuel Schenkel at Thun..They had seven children; of them VI, d. Rosina, born 1836, died single 1864, hereafter. hurried at Rose Bank Cemetary, town- ship Wilmot, county Waterloo, Ont II, d. Anna S, married to Sailer in Genf town, ten miles south west of Berlin. cabinet maker, had one daughter Margret; of her hereafter. VII, d. Louisa, born 1838, married to Fred-

III, d. Magdalena, married to Christ Bloom erick J. Schroeder, cigar manufacturer of in Berlin, Ontario, ..born in 1826, died 1908 Hamilton, Ont. They had six children; of at Hamilton. son; of She had one him them hereafter. hereafter.

IV, d. Johan, married and lived at Dunkirk VIII, d. A. Ludwig, born 1839, died Oct. 27, Pensylvania, was a watchmaker, born 1901, buried at Hamilton, Ont., single. Grand Children of David hereafter; (see Biography). The husband

Bettschen, II, c. was a son of Abel and Elisabeth Miller of Wilmot; he was a cabinet maker and CHILDREN OF JACOB BETTSCHEN, joiner. He died in Wilmot April 12th 1865 III, d. WATCH-MAKER AND and was buried in Rosebank Cemetary on FARMER, AND HIS WIFE the Huron road at the age of ELISABETH. twenty- eight years.

I, e. Jacob, born in I83I in the township of III, e. Gabriel, died in infancy. Wilmot and lived in Wilmot four years.

He was a millwright, was married at Bay- IV, e. Gottlieb, born Sept. 3, 1841 in Preston

field, Ont., to Grace Martin, an English lady Ont, his parents moving back to Wilmot from Yorkshire England, where they lived at his tender age of a few months, onto the farm where he was raised to manhood. for some time, then at Stratford and from He was married to Mary Copley on Jan. 1 there they moved to Palmerston Ont., where 1867 in Berlin Ont. She w-as the daughter he died on the... His wife survived him two of John and Elisabeth Copley with whom years. Both are buried in Palmerston; they she came toAmerica fromNottinghamshire, had five children of whom three died England, when about thirteen years old. young. ..of them hereafter. They lived on the old Bettschen home- stead on lot six, 2nd concession, from the II, e. Susanna, born May 30th, 1837, in year 1869 to 1907 when they moved to the Preston, was married to Conrad Miller on town of Nev.' Dundee, Ont., where his wife Sept. ilst, 18.56, and died Oct. 8th, 1908, at died on May 17th, 1908, and was buried in Oiean, N.Y., buried in Pleasant Valley the New Dundee cemetary. They had cemetary. Thev had four children; of them one daughter, of her hereafter. ;

V, e. A boy. died in infancy. making business with Mr.John Buetikoffee, a Swiss; and was buried there. His broth- VI, e. Judith, born Oct. 4, \8H, in Wilmot, er Gottlieb was the only relative attending married tc Gottlieb Neiderheuser of Wil- the Funeral. They had one daughter; of mot. They at present live in Berlin, Ont. her hereafter. they had three children ; of them hereafter.

IX, e. David and Elisabeth, twins, died in VII, e. Frederick, born Oct. 27, 1816, in Wil- infancy, in 1850. mot, Ont., on the old homestead, raised to manhood on the farm, married to Hannah Clemens, daughter of Jacob and Eva CHILDREN OF CHRISTIAN Clemens of Roseville, Ont., at Baden in BETTSCHEN IV, d. May, 1871. They lived at Roseville for I, e. Susana, born March 23rd, 1832, at about twenty years where he worked in a Berlin, Ont., died at that place. sawmill after which they moved to Berlin II, e. David, born Sept. 7th, 1833, in Berlin, Ont., where they reside at present. They Ont., died in west Flamboro, Ont. have one daug-hter; of her hereafter.

III, e. Peter, born Dec. 28th, 1834, in Berlin, VIII, e. Hercules, born .August 31, 1848, in Ontario. Wilmot, Ont., on the old farm home where he lived to manhood. He was married to IV, e. Mary, born April 17th, 1837, in Nancy, daughter of Frederick Lederman Berlin, Ont. and wife; Wilmot, Ont. He died at Kenda-

ville, Indiana, with congestive chill and V, e. Christian, born April 2nd, 1839, in fever, where he was engaged in the watch- Berlin, Ont. VI, e. Catharine, born April 23rd, 1841, in IV, e. George, born June 2.5th, 1847, in Wilmot, Ont. Wilmot, Ont. Died July 24th, 1881, in

Colorado, aged 32 years and 1 month. VII, e. David, bom Nov. 18th, 1842, in Wilmot, Ont. V, e. Mary, born March 12th, 1852, in Wilmot, Ont., VIII, e. Sophia, born Dec. 8th, 1845, in was married to Henry P. Washington Co., Wis. Died Oct. 20th, Brown, March 14th, 1876, of Reno, Nevada. 1846, ill Lake Co., 111.

CHILDREN OF GOTTLIEB VI, e Margeret, born Feb. 12th, 185.5. Died Sept. 18th, 1876, in Parkhill, aged 21 BETTSCHEN V, d. years, 7 months and 6 days. I, e. Jacob F., born in Wilmot, Aug. 27th,

184.3, died in Hay Township Aug. 22, 1869. VII, e. Elisabeth, born Nov. 26th, 1856, in Wellesley. Married Nov. 4th, 1879, to II, e. John F., born April 26th, 184-5, in Benton Peck of Reno Nevado. Wilmot, Ont. Married to Isabella Bow- man, Dec. 10th, 1868, in Bayfield, Ont. VIII, e. Christina, born May 26th, 1859, in They had 7 children. Wellesley, Ont., married to Frederick Kelles

III, e. Catherine, born Jan. 29th, 1847, in Nov. 18th, 1883, in Michigan. Died July Wilmot, Ont. Died Nov. 10th, 1879, in 15th, 1895, in Oregon, aged 36 years

Nile, .Michigan, aged 32 years, 9 months 1 month and 18 days. They had 4 and 12 days. children, the names are not ofiven.

-27- VI, d. GILGIAN BEXrSCHEN'S VI, e Hannah Mary, born Aug. 12th, 1852, CHILDREN. married to Rev. Wm. Bough. They have a family. I, e. Mary Ann, born May I9th, 1837, mar- ried to Henry Patmore, a farmer, in 1866. VII, e. Edmund Thomas, died young. They had 7 children. Mar/ Ann died at the VIII, e. Ada, died in infancy. age of 60 years. IX, e. Kesiah, born Sept. 1854, married to II, e. born 29th, i83(S, on the John, June H. Boulding, had 2 children and died at Victoria was crowned. that day Queen On an early age. day the Bett.schen family father and sons X, e. Jabez, born Nov. 9th, 1860, married formed a band of music to celebrate the to Mrs. Simpson, living in Guelph, Ont. crowning of the Queen. He has no family. Grand Children oi Maria Elizabeth III, e. Ester born March 7th, 1840, now (Bettschen) VI, c. dead. von Gunten, I, d. CHILDREN OF MARIANl IV, e. David, born July 28th, 1845, married (VON GUNTEN) SCHENKEL. to Mary Colbeck of Luther town on 7th I, e. Samuel. of March, 1877. They have two children II, e. Maria. and are livmg- an a splendid farm near III, e. Lena. Violet Hill, Ont. IV, e. Louisa. V, e. Joseph born Nov. 1817, married in V, e. Alvreda.

1869 to Charlotte Boulding; they live in VI, e. Hulda. Regina, N. W. He is a master builder. VII, e. Halana. ~ s

J.ihn S.hrDcilcr ami first vvlte, Haiinhnn, (Jmari.

II, d. CHILDREN OF ANNA (VON HI, e. Alexander Harry, a jeweler born at GUNTEN) SEILER. St. Matys, Ont., July iSth, 1862, married to Ella 1. Paxton, Nov. 1887. They have 2 I, e. Margaret, has 2 children, was married daughters and live in Chatham, Ont. to Christ Schroeder of Hamilton, are VII, d. CHILDREN OF living in Little York, Pa. LOUISA (VON GUNTEN) SCHROEDER.

in, d. CHILDREN OF MAGDALENA I, e Frederick, cigar manufacturer of Ha- (VON GUNTEN) BLUM. milton, Ont., born 1866, married to Nellie Hammond. They have 5 children, I, e. Adolph born 1854, married Matilda of them Fricker of Preston, Ont., they have 3 hereafter.

children; of them hereafter. II, e. Charlie Schroeder, cigar maker, Ha- milton, Ont., born 1868, was married to V. d. OF CHARLES L. CHILDREN Lizzie Froad, Eng. They had 4 children

VON GUNTEN, JEWELER. of them hereafter. He is married again.

I, e. of Blenheim, married to M. John J. III, e. Louisa, born 1870 at Hamilton, Ont., have 5 children, all boys; of Shaw. They married to Albert Lay of Olean, N. Y. them hereafter. They have 2 children ; of them hereafter. They are living in Hamilton, Ont. II, e. Charles Lewis, born April 2Ist, 1860, jeweler and stationer, Blenheim, Ont., I\', e. John, born 1871 in Hamilton, Ont., married Sarah .A. Clemens Oct. 17th, 1883. cigar maker, his first wife was Birdie

They have 3 daughters and 1 son; of them Tribute, a teacher, his 2nd wife Ethel Reed. hereafter. He has 2 sons; of them hereafter. V, e. Emma, born 1874 in Hamilton, Ont., IV, f. Frank, born in Bayfield, at present married to Frank Schaffer of Olean, N.V., living in Hamilton, single. a lawyer. They have 3 children; of them

hereafter. V, f. Ferdinand, born in Bayfield, at present

living in \'ancouver; he was married in VI. e. Goodie Emmilia Martha, born in \'ancouver, his wife dying a year later. Hamilton, Ont., married Arthur Robinson They have one daughter. of Buxton, Eng. , a musician. They have 1 child. Ferdinand Bettschen came to British Columbia in the fall of 1902. Married Grand Children of Jacob Bettschen, Elma Silistria Newcomb, daughter of Joseph Newcomb, LIpper Dorchester, New III d., son of David Bettschen II c. Brunswick, Jan. 10, 1905, and you can't anything too good of her. Baptist 1, e. JACOB BETTSCHEN, THE say in MILLWRIGHT'S CHILDREN. religion, she alwa3's took an active part in all church work, of a quiet loving dis- ..died at an early L f. Mary Martha, born. position, ever ready to do a kind turn for age. others. Died, Sept. 13th, 1906, leaving one daughter, Elma S. N. Bettschen. infancy, buried at Rose- II, f. A Son, died in Ferdinand is a share-holder in the Prud- bank cemetary. ential Life of Winnipeg, Man. ; and the

Bank of Vancouver, B. is of III, f. George Washington, died at two C, Knight years of age of poison from matches, in the Maccabees and holds the office of Bavfield. Chaplain.

—.30- Frank Si'haffer and his Kifc, Emma Srhroeder, at their residence, Henley Street, Olean, N. V.

Jacob Eduard Miller and wife, Seattle, W.i>li.

(II el SUSANNA (BETTSCHEX) IV, f. David Edwin, boru Feb. I.'th, 1865, ML'ELLER'S CHILDREN. in Wilmot, Ont., later going to Dewitt,

I, f. Isabella, born July 20111 1857 in Peters- Neb., where he married and later moving to Belleville, burg', Ont , was married to J. M. Becker Kans., where he resides at of New Dundee, a wagon maker; they live this time. His wife died .April 7th, 1908; at present in Olean, N. Y., and have 5 he is a shoemaker; they have 3 children; of children; of them hereafter. them hereafter.

Ill, f. Mary Hannah, born May 23rd, 1859, IV, e. CHILDREN OF GOTTLIEB BETTSCHEN, FARMER. in New Dundee, Out , she was married to

A. J. Bowser of Olean, N. Y., on Feb. I, f. Lucinda Alice Cynthiana, born July 17th, \S8l where she died Dec. 20th, 1900, 26th, 1873, in Wilmot, Ont., on the and was buried in Pleasent Valley ceme- Bettschen Homestead lot 6, was married to Edwin Hallman of Wilmot, farmer. tary. They had 3 children; of them one They have 3 children; of them hereafter. died. The two living are Hazel and -Mabel. They live on the old home. Ill, f. Jacob Edward born May 21st, 1862 II, f. Anna, (adopted) is married to Nathaniel in Sebringsville, Ont., he afterwards lived Clemens, blacksmith, and is living at in Olean, N. Y., where he was married to Netistadt, Ont. They have 3 children, Edith Byer of Buffalo, who after 17 years A. C. Clemens ot New Dundee, Ont., of married life died and was buried in .Alfred, and Mrs. A. Wagner of Grand Pleasent Valley cemetary. They had no \'iew, Man. children, again to he married Emma III, f. Ellen, (adopted), is married to Henry of Buffalo, they had 2 children; of Bauer, blacksmith, and is living at New them hereafter. Dundee, Ont. VI, e. CHILDREN OF JUDITH (BETT. Grand Children of Christian SCHEN) NEIDERHEUSER. Bettschen. IV, d. CHILDREN OF PETER I, f. Frederick, born in Wilmot, Ont., later BETTSCHEN III, e. moved to Berlin, Ont., single, resides He was married in 18.56 to Margret McKarthy, at home. a beautiful Irish lady from Chatfield, II, f. Charles, born in Wilmot, Ont., later Minnesota. They lived in Lake Co., 111., moved to Berlin, Ont., where he died until Dec. 186.5 when they moved to single at the age of buried in Berlin. Berlin, Steel Co., Minnesota, where they where engaged in farming until 1884, III, f. Caroline, born in Wilmot, Ont., when they moved to the villiage of Xew later moved to Berlin, Ont., single and Richland, Maseco Co., Minnesota, where lives at home. Peter died January 19th, 1899. VII, e. CHILDREN OF FREDERICK HETTECHEX. The widow died Dec. 2-2nd, 1903, at the home of her daughter Mrs. A. Ruedig, I, f. Blanch Meda, born 1881 in Roseville, in Berlin. She was of a very cheerful Ont.. later moved to Berlin, Ont., married a baker by trade. They have 3 children; of disposition, always a comforter to those in them hereafter. trouble, handsome in appearance, amiable as a companion shedding rays of love VIII. e. HERCULES BETTSCHEX'S CHILDREN. towards those around her. (The writer

was personally acquainted with her ) I, t. Mary Elisabeth, born lf<*i9 in Wilmot Ont., later moved to.\yr, Michigan, where Nine children were the result of their she married Mr. Warren a farmer. They marriage. Two, Nellie and Nora having

have I children. died in infancy. The others are:- Huntly, born 18.56 at

., is living at Seattle, ritory.

n 18.58. He is farming at Grand Children of esota.

Frederick Bettschen. 3rn 1866. He is a farmer

1, f. BLANCH MEDA BETTSCHEN. 3.

I, g. Gladys M., born Oct. •->2, 1902. BETTSCHEN V, e. Christian and Maria Bett- H, g. Meta K., born Dec. 17, 1905. Minnesota in Dec. 1865, HI, g. Alice G., born May 22, 1908. with his mother until her hat time on he made his the children of Frederick These are grand ent members of the family Bettschen esota, New Ritchland and died at the home of his I, f. MARY BETT.SCHEN WARREN Ellendale, Mar. 11, 1909.

I, g. Vern, a boy of 10 years. ig infancy left him nearly affliction he bore very H, g. Hazel, a girl h life. He never married, old violin . his HI, g. Florence, a girl. anion was o be nearly human, and IV, g. Sangster, a boy. jm which it poured forth music when in his hands. ere always happy when 'k his fiddle. VI, e. CHILDREN OF JUDI SCHEN) NEIDERHEU

I, f. Frederick, born in Wilmot moved to Berlin, Ont., sir at home.

II, f. Charles, born in Wilmot moved to Berlin, Ont., wh single at the age of bui born in W III, f. Caroline, later moved to Berlin, Ont lives at home.

VII, e. CHILDREN OF FR I5ETTECHEN. 1881 I, f. Blanch Meda, born Ont.. later moved to Berlin, a baker by trade. They have them hereafter.

VIII, e. HERCULES BET! CHILDREN. born 1^ 1, t. Mary Elisabeth, Ont., later moved to Ayr, Mi she married Mr. Warren a

have t children. I, f. David, M. horn at Goodall, Lake Co., I, f. Samuel E. Huntly, horn 18.56 at

111., Nov. i:5th, 18-57. Forkerville, JU., is living at Seattle, Washington territory. II, f. Mary, S. born at Goodall, 111., March

ith, I860. II, 1. William, born 1858. He is farming at Ellendale, Minnesota. HI, f. George, born at Berlin, Minnesota, in

.April. 1867. Died April 18th, 1883. III, f. Willis J., born 1866. He is a farmer at Lamour, N. D. IV, f. Francis, born Aug. r2th, 1869, in Berlin, Minnesota. CHRISTIAN BETTSCHEN \', e. Third son of Christian and Maria Bett- V, f. Frederick, horn May 15th, 1872, in schen came to Minnesota in Dec. 1865, Berlin, Minnesota. where he lived with his mother until her his VI, f. Louis V, born Aug. .Slst, 1877, in death. From that time on he made home with different of the family Berlin, Minnesota. members in Berlin, Minnesota, New Ritchland and VII, f. John W, born June -Slst, 1882, in Ellendale. He died at the home of his Berlin, Minnesota. brother David in Ellendale, Mar. 11, 1909. Sickness during infancy left him nearly CHILDREN OF MARY BETTSCHEN blind, which affliction he bore very DAUGHTER OF CHRISTIAN patiently through lite. He never married, AND MARIA BETTSCHEN. his chief companion was his old violin which seemed to he nearly human, and She was married in 18-55 to Charles contain a soul from which it poured forth Hurtley M.C., of Henry, 111., at which place sweet strains of music when in his hands. she died April 9th, 1866. Three sons The children were always happy when were born to them. L^ncle Christ took his fiddle.

-33- CHILDREN OF CATHARINE Wilson raids, fought in the battles of BETTSCHEN VI, e, SECOND Nashville, Tennessee, Salma and Mont- DAUGHTER OF gomery, in Alabama, Columbus, Macon in CHRISTIAN BETTSCHEN Georgia. He was discharged at Chicago

She came to Minnesota in company with on July 1st, 1865. He then went to Berlin, her mother and brothers in Dec. 1865. Minnesota in August and in the same She was married in 1868 to Philo Saw3'er month was married to Miss Mary Ellen of Berlin, Minnesota. She died July 1902. Farensworth, a school teacher from Three boys were born to them, one died Wawkigan, 111. in infancy. Those alive are:- They settled on a farm in Berlin, Minn- esota, where they remained until April I, f. Dr. Herbert P., born 1870, is living at 1902 when they moved to Ellendale, Minn. Goodhue, .Minnesota. He is a Physician In Oct. 1909 they sold their property in and Surgeon. Ellendale and moved to New Richland. II, f. born 1872. He is employed Almond G., Four children were born to them. in the Post Office at Minniapolis. I, f Frederick, died in infancy. CHILDREN OF DAVID F. BETTSCHEN II, f. Olive E., born at Berlin, Minnesota, VI, e., YOUNGEST SOX OF CHRISTIAN AND MARIA July 22nd, 1867. BETTSCHEN. III, f. Bell L., born at Berlin, Minnesota, Nov. 3rd, 1870. He served in the Union .Army, in the

Chicago Board of Trade Battery during IV, f. William F., born at Berlin, Minn., the Civil War. Was in the Hord and Feb. 28th, 1877.

John Bettsrheii and family, Uashwoiid, Ontarin

Grand Children of Gottlieb \'II, f. Lizzie, born Dec. 8th, 1884, in Bettschen, V, d. Hay, Ontario.

CHILDREN OF JOHN F. BETTSCHEN DAVID BETTSCHEN, IV, f. II, e., SON OF GOTTLIEB He has 2 boys, they are:- BETTSCHEN V, d. Solemn, born 1904. I, f. Mary, born April 1st 1869 in Hay, Ont., Tyle F., born 1908. married to James Overholt Nov. 26th 1855, be obtained. in Exeter, Ont. Died June 8th, 1S98, in No more could Hay, Ont., aged 29 years and 2 months. Grand Children of Gilgian n, f. Catherine, born Dec. 25th, 1870. Bettschen, VI, d. Married to Christian Zuerk March 6th, I, e. CHILDREN" OF M.ARY ANN 1894, in Zuerick. (BETTSCHEN) PATMORE. Ill, f. Lovine, born July 6th, 1873, in Hay,

Ont. Died Dec. 11th, 1882, in Hay, I, f. Josiah, died.

aged 9 years 5 months and 5 days. II, f. Joseph, Tinsmith, married. l\, f. David, born Oct. 24th, 1875, in Hay, III, f. Garnett, Tinsmith, married. Ont. He married to Miss Guenter. I\', f. Hattie, married.

V, f. Issacca, born March 1st, 1878, in \', f. Lewis, Lawyer. Hay, Ont.

VI, f. Ernest, Tinsmith. VI, f. James, born Feb. 13th, 1881, in

Hay, Ont. VII, f. Ferdinand, died. IV, e. CHILDREN OF DAVID Alvira, daughter of L. A. and Mary White

BETTSCHEN. of Ceres, N. Y. , they have 3 children, they are at present living in Ceres, N. Y. I, f. Mabel, Pianist, Toronto.

II, f. Franklin, farmer, Violet Hill, Ont. II, g. Clara Mary^ born at St. Agatha, Ont. V, e. CHILDREN OF JOSEPH July 13th, 1878, later moved to Olean, N. BETTSCHEN. Y., married to Frederich Vollmer (Patrol- I, f. Ada. man) on Oct. 18th. They live in Olean, N. II, f. Susannah. Y. ; at this time of writing they have no III, f. Birdie Mabel. issue.

IV, f. William. HI, g. Herbert bom in Baden, Ont., V, f. David. J., Oct. 20th, I88I, later moved to Olean VI, f. Edna. where he resides at this time. Married to The others could not be obtained. Katheryn Karl of Allegany, N. Y., Oct. Grand Children and Great Grand 22nd, 1904. They have 2 daughters; of Children of Susanna (Bettschen) them hereafter. Mueller, II, e. Daug^hter of Jacob Bettschen, III, d. IV, g. Annetta, born in Normanby Tp., Ont. Oct. 23rd, 1884, later on moved to I, f. ISABELLA (MUELLER) BECKER'S CHILDREN. Olean, N. V., single and lives at home.

I, g. Edward, born in Baden, Ont., June 25, V, g. Karl Frederick, born June 28th, 1888, 1875, later on moved to Olean, N. V. He in Olean, N. Y.. is a Brakeman on the R.

is a sawmiller, was married to Clarisa, R. He is single. I, g. CHILDREN OF EDWARD II, g. Eliria Mary, born Dec. 7, 1906, in BECKER, SAWMILLER. Wilmot, Ont., on the homestead Lot 6.

I, h. Francelia, born Oct. 8th, 1898, in Eva III, g. Eliah Grace, born April 5th, 1910 on Ceres, N. V. the old homestead Lot 6. II, h. Marion Isabel!, born Aug. 12th, 1900, in Olean, N. V. Children and Grand Children III, h. Beatrice born and died June, 1903, in of John Copley. ' Olean, N. V. only brother of Mary, Gotiieb Bettschen's IV, h. Lyle Edward, born Xov. 19th, 1908, in Ceres, N. Y. wife. He lives in Michigan.

Ill.g. CHILDREN OF HERBERT I, f. John, single, a Rancher and Cattle Dealer

J. BECKER. at Crossfield, Alberta, Canada.

I, h. Helen Isabell born Oct. 190.5, in Olean, II, f. James, died single. N. V.

f. to II, h. Madalene Margaret, born Julv 18th, III, Mary Jane, married Samual Goften, 1907, in Olean. X. V. engineer, living at Berlin, Ont. They Grand Children of Gottlieb have one son only. Bettschen, IV, e. Son of I, g. Harry, Jacob Bettschen, III, d. I\', f. Joseph, Rancher and Cattle Dealer, 1, f. LUCINDA ALICE (BETTSCHEN) Crossfield, .Alberta, Canada. Married to HALLMAN'S CHILDREN. Jessy Sutherland. They have 6 children.

I, g. Quintin Bettschen Hallman, born I, g. Robert July "-'5, 190.J in Wilmot, Ont., lives on the old homestead Lot 6. II, g. Henry III, g. Alice IX, f. Alice, married to Israel Hallman, they are living at Bridgeport, Ont., have 5 IV, g. William children. V, g. Jessey I, g. Lillian \'I, g. Joseph Arthur II, g. Greita HI, g. Clarence \', f. William, married to Miss Agnes Kek- IV, g. Florence erton, thej' are farming near Plattsville, V, g. Herbert Ont. , Canada, they have no issue. X, f Adeline, single, living with her parents

VT, f. Emma Jane, married to Fred Kack- at New Dundee, Ont. erton, a fireman, they are living in Ayr, Children of Ont., Can., they have one daughter. Grand Mag^dalena (von Gunten) Blum, III, d. Grita, I, g.

CHILDREN OF ADOLPH BLUM, I, e. VII, f. Henry, married to Miss Lizabelh Rodky. They are living on the old farm I, f. Edmund, who was drowned in the near New Dundee. They have 2 children: Grand River in Gait, Ont.

H, f. Gertrude, born 1882 living at home in 1, g. Olivia Hamilton, Ont. ir, g. Ralph HI, f. Frederick, born 1884, watch maker,

VIII, f. Ellen, married to Adison Taylor, Caledonia, Ont.

office clerk. They live in Waterloo, Ont., IV, f. Alfred, born 1887, Jeweler, Hamilton,

1 Can , have son, Burdell, I, g. Ont. Mrs. Louise Schroeder and grand-children, Hamilton, Ontario. Mrs. L. Schroeder is first cousin of Jacob Bettschen, the compiler's father.

Grand Children of Charles L. Ill f. Clarice Louie, Public Teacher, born von Gvmten, V, d. Nov. 21st, 1887.

CHILDREN OF JOHX J. von GUNTEN I, e. IV, f Carl Frederick, born Sept. 7th, 1892, student. Blenheim, Kent Co., Ont. I, f. Charles James, born July 19th, 1893.

II, f. Peter Garrock, born Dec. iSth, 1895. Ill, e. ALEXANDER HARRY von GUNTEN'S CHILDREN. III, f. George Harry, born Feb. Uth, 1898.

f. I. IV, f. John Loyde, born March 29th, 1900. I, Beatrice E.

V, f. Franklin Watts, born Aug:. 1-th, 1902. II, f. Nora M. Chatham, Ont.

VI, f. Katherine May, born Jan. Uth, 1905. Grand Children of Louisa (von f. Chester Frederick, born Aug. 29th, VII, Gunten) Schroeder, VII, d. 1906. All rai-sed at Dunkirk, Pa.

I, e. FREDERICK SCHROEDER'S VIII, f. Archibald McCaig, born Sept. 30th, CHILDREN. 1908. 22nd, 1897. CHILDREN OF CHARLES von I, f. Queenie, born June GUNTEN, II, e. II, f. Fred, born 1899.

I, f. born Sept. 17th, 188+, Prof. May Rhea, III, f. Harry, born 1901. Musician. IV, f. Laura, born 190+. II, f. Lizzie Evelyn, born July 18th, 188G,

Prof. Nurse. V, f. John born 1907. .All at Hamilton, Ont. -39— II. e. CHARLIE SHROEDER'S VII, e. GOODIE EMMILIA MARTHA CHILDREN (SCHROEDER) ROBINSONS

I, f. Lillian, born 1892. CHILDREN.

II, f. Ruth, born 1897. I, f. Dorethy, born 1910.

III, f. Gertrude, born 1899. Grand Children of Peter Bettschen

IV, f. Marjory, born 1901. Living at Ha- III, e. Son of Christian milton, Ont. Bettschen, IV, d.

Ill, e. LOUISA (SCHROEDER) LAYS 1, f. DAVID M. BETTSCHEN'S CHILDREN. CHILDREN.

I, f. Vera, born 189B. He was the eldest son of Peter and Margret Bettschen. was married in II, f. Albert, born 1898. He 1882 to Miss Dora Jackson of Woodville, IV, e. JOHN SCHROEDER'S CHILDREN. Waseca Co., Minnesota. They lived in I, f. John H. born 190.1. Berlin until 1888 when they moved to New

Richland, Minn. , from where they moved II, f. Frank Arthur, born 1908. in about 1890 to \Vater\ille, Minn., here V, e. EMMA (SCHROEDER) SCHAFFER'S they lived until 1902 when they moved to CHILDREN. Morehead, Minn, where .Mrs. Bettschen

I, f. Leah, born 1903. died in 1904. They had 6 children born II, ( Charles, born 1908. to them.

HI, f Frank, born 1910 I, g. Paul, (first) died in infancy. II, g. Arthur, born 188j in Berlin, Minn. I, g. Lizzie, (.Mrs. Ben GraiT.) He lives at Portland, Oregon. II, g. Louis, is in the Mercantile Business. III, g. Herbert, born 1885 in Berlin, Minn.

Christian, is He lives in Northern Minnesota. III, g. in the Mercantile Business

IV, Margret. IV, g. Paul, (2nd) born 1889 in New Rich- g. They all reside at Waterville. land, Minn. He lives at Waseca, Minn. Minnesota.

V, g. Francis, bom 1892 at \Vater\ille, Minn. FRANCIS, l\, i. YOUNGEST She lives with her father at Minniapolis. DAUGHTER OF PETER

\'I, g. Frederick, born 1894 at Waterville, AND MARGRET Minn. He lives with his father at Minni- BETTSCHEN. apolis. In 1908 David was again married She was also a school teacher before being to a lady at Morehead, Minnesota. They married. In 1890 she married Rudolph live at Minniapolis. Dickoff, and 4 daughters were born to them. CHILDREN OF MARY S. I, g. Margret, born 1892. (BETTSCHEN.) RUEDIG'S II, f.

II, g. Marion, born 1894. She was the eldest daughter of Peter and

Margret B. She taught school when a III, g. Burnice, born 1897.

girl, was married in 1881 to Andrew Ruedig IV, g. Lucile, born 1901. of Woodville, Minn. There were 4

children born to them. They all live in Minniapolis. FREDERICK BETTSCHEN, V, f. THIRD was married to Miss OliveBogue, a school SON OF PETER AND MARGRET teacher of Northfield, Minn. There were BETTSCHEN. 3 children born to them.

He enlisted in the spring of 1898, in Co. I, g. Margret Minerva, born Feb. 15, 1905. A. 13th Minnesota volunteers. Served in the campaign in and about Manilla in the H, g. Robert Louis, born Dec. 8th, 1906. Spanish American war, and was raised to the Ill, g. Dorathy Louisa, born Sept. 17, 1909. rank of Seargent, he was mustered out when

the regiment disbanded at Minniapolis in JOHN W. BETTSCHEN, VII, f. Oct. 1899. In 1902 he was married to YOUNGEST SON OF PETER Miss Elaine Murphy, and they moved to AND MARGRET BETTSCHEN. Litchville, North Dakota, where he has He resided in New Richland until the charge of a grain elevator. They have spring of 1899, and lived about one year at one child. Worthington, Minn. Since that time he has I, g. George Frederick, born at Litch\ille, been employed at Arthur, N. D., in the North Hakota, in July 1904. same store as his elder brother Louis. He LOUIS V. BETTSCHEN. VI, f. has great musical talent, the slide trombone 6th son OF PETER AND being his chief instrument. He was married MARGARET BETTSCHEN. July 25th, 1907, to Miss Alma Cora Schur, He lived with his parents in New Rich- of Arthur, N. D. There was one child until the spring of 1898, when he land went (a boy) born to them. to Arthur, North Dakota, and obtained

employment in a general store. In 1901 he I, g. Burton Louis, born Nov. 29th, 1908. Grand Children of David Bettschen I\", g. Glenn A., of Minniapolis, born Aug.

VII, e. Son of Christian 4th, 1889. He serv-ed 4 years in the U. S. Bettschen, IV, d. Navy, on board the Flagship West Virginia," and had the rank of Gunners Mate. CHILDREN OF OLIVE E. STEELE He is employed as a book-keeper for a firm II, f. OLDEST DAUGHTER OF DAVID & iMARY BETTSCHEN, in St. Paul, Minn. SON OF CHRISTIAN V, g. Pearl E., (Mrs. Edward Dunning) of BETTSCHEN, IV, e. Jamestown, N. Dakota, born July 26, 1891. She was married on March 21st, 1883, to William B. Steele of Berlin, Minn. She died VI, g. Robert E., of Watertown, S. D., born at Ovvatona, Minn., Aug. 3rd, 1906. On May I6th, 1893. He is employed in a Dec. 20th 1901, Mr. Steele was killed while wholesale confectioner)' establishment. operating a feed mill at Ellendale. There VII, g. Frank R., born Jan. 26th, 1895. He were 10 children born to them. is employed in a shirt facton,' at Minniapolis. I, g. Fannie May, (Mrs. Gus Kranby) of VIII, g. Marion B., born Dec. 18th, 1896. Randolph, Minn., born at Berlin, Minn., She li\es with her grandparents at New Aug. 16th, 1884. Richland. II, g. Earl R., of Kenyon, Minn., born Nov. Milton E., 29th, 1885. He is employed by the Rail- IX, g. born xMarch 29th, 1899. way Company. He is on a farm in Hartland, Minnesota.

III, g. Vernon M., of Ellendale, born Aug. X, g. Willis L., born Feb. 20th, 1901. He

15th, 1887, he is engaged in farming. lives with his brother at Kenvon. BELL L. BETTSCHEN, III, f. SECOND Couden, a school teacher of Boone, Iowa. DAUGHTER OE DAVID AND In Aug. 1906 they moved to New Richland,

MARY BETTSCHEN. Minn., where he is engaged in the practice of Dentistrj-. She was a school teacher and a teacher of music. In Sept. 1897, she was married to REMARKS. Guy Leslie Gordon of Berlin, Minn. They have lived at Redwood Falls and Mankota, The decendents of Christian and Maria Minn., and are now located at Watertown, Bettschen, who came from Canada to the S. D., where Mr. Gordon has charge of a Western States in the year 1843 as pioneers, are wholesale Ice Cream and butter making generally speaking small of statue, of a dark establishment. Eight children have been complection, and of a nervous temperment, hard born to them, four of whom died in infancy. working and good citizens. They are all more

or less musical, nearly all of them being able to WILLIAM F. BETTSCHEN, IV, f. play some musical instrument, some becoming YOUNGEST SON OF DAVID quite proficient. AND MARY BETTSCHEN. They have become so intermarried with

He graduated in June 1897 from the other nationalities, Scandinavians, Irish, Owatowa High School and in 1902 from the English and Americans, that the coming generation Dental Department of the Minnesota State will no longer be spoken of as Swiss, but as

University. He was located first at Mankota, Americans or "Yankees", and while we are and in 1904 moved to Ellendale. He was proud of our Swiss Ancestr>', we love America.

married Aug. 23rd 1905 to Miss Maude It is our natixe land. sq

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Pension Gries Alp :

Suminer hotel high up above the timber Umit, between the upper end of the Kien Thaal and the glacier Bluemlisalp, which is visible bevond the Pension. Built by Herr Christian Bettschen of Thun, Canton Bern.

Samuel Bettschen's Family Branch, President of the Counsul, the latter during 12 Obersch^velen-Meister at years, and he had also the charge to keep the Ruetigen, Switzerland. present register above mentioned. He died Feb. 21st, 1867. The following is a copy out of the Register of the Citizens (\umber 1, page If 3) of the Reg. 2, page 52. Common of Ruechenbach, concerning the This above named Johannes Bettschen w-as Samuel Bettschen Family. married on F"eb. 18th, 1831, to Suzanna

1. The widow Barbara Bettschen, (maiden Muerner, Jacobs of Kien christened Nov. -Ith, name, von Kaenel Emanuel's), from Reudlen, 1810, and died March 8th, 1833. christened July 29th, 1770, married Sept. '27th, Of this marriage was born one son. 1799, to Kilian Bettschen, son of Jacob, from Renschigen at Aris and of Elizabeth Lugin- F Johannes, born March 8th, christened buehl, christened Aug. l-oth, 1773, and who March 17th, 1833, and died Dec. 15th, 1847. died Oct., 1802. This widow Barb. Bettschen He was married a second time to Anna von has been married a second time to Christian Kanel, Peters' who was judge in the common, Rubin at Kien on Nov. 8th, 1806, and died on Miller of Kien, christened March 3rd, 1816, April 29th, 18-1:7. Of the first named marriage died Sept. 8th, 1870. was born one son only. Of this second marriage came the follow- 2. Johannes, christened April 19th, 1801, ing children.

(Register 2, page 52), who was a Lieutenant,

Consul in the Common and also different other 1. Samuel, born .Apr. 1st, christened Apr. charges he had. President of the Common and 12th, 1835, — died. 2. Anna, christ'd June 12th, 1836, married 10. Johann Friedrick, born Dec. 17th, 1853, to David Bettschen, Johannes of Aris County, christened Feb. 5th, 1854, (lY page 191). July 29th, 1859, (HI page 155). 11. Johann, born Oct. 1st, christened Nov. 3. Johann Jacob, born March 25th, christ'd 2nd, 1856. Apr. 8th, 1838, married to Elizabeth Kiossner, Samuais' of Diemtigen, at Reichenbach on 12. .Adelina Johanna, born Jan. 27th, christ'd March 21st, 1862, (111 page 199). March 10th, 1861, married on Oct. 3rd, 1889, to Vago Henry .\ntoine of Luglie (Halie) at 4. Samuel, christened Janruary 2Gth, 1840, Montreux. In the Reg. Ill page 199 is (111 page 284). mentioned;

5. Gottlieb, christened July 10th, 1842, 1. Johann Jacob Bettschen, No. 3 as (IV page 23). above married Maach 21st, 1862, and died 6. Peter Johann, christened July 9th, 1845, Feb. 22nd, 1870. His wife Elizabeth Kiossner died June 2 "2nd, 1868, in Russia, (he was was christened Feb. 2ith, 1839, of this drowned). marriage were born the children as follows:

7. Anna N'erena, christened Dec, 1 2th, 1847. 1. Suzanna Jakobea, born Aug. 7th, christ'd Sept. 13th, 1863, married to Samuel Stoller, 8. Kilian Frederick, christened March 20ih, schoolmaster at Kandergrund. 1849, died June 30th, 1850.

9. Suzanna Katharine, born June 12th, 2. Elizabeth, born Dec. 31st, 1865, christ'd christened July 14th, 1850, marr!e 1 Nov. 19th, Jan. 21st, 1866. married to Adolf Straubhaar 1870, to Andreas Zwala of Halisberg. on .March 3rd, 1899. 3. Anna, born Feb. 7th, clirist'd March 15, 5. Louise, born .April loth, christened .May 1868, married to Alfred Mueller, hotelkeeper 25th, 1873, died April 9th, 1878. at Hospenthal, on Apr. 26th, 1894. 6. Frederick .Adolf, born June 17th, christ'd Reg. Ill page 284. Aug. 15th, 1875, at Reutigen, (V page 236).

11. Samuel Bettschen, as mentioned 7. Anna Bertha, born July 30th, 1876, died above Sub No. 4, married on Aug 18th, 1866, on Apr. 20th, 1878. at Thun, to Maria Buetschi, daughter of Jacob Name of the second wife: & Marianna Kernen of Reutigen, born Jan. 20, .\nna Marie Louise Kaestli, daughter of christened Feb 10th, 1839, died on Feb. 6th, Christian and of .Anna Maria Kaesermann of 1897. He was married a second time on Oct. Adelboden born Nov. 3rd, 1854. 8th, 1897, of the first marriage were born: Register lY, page 23. 1. Johann Jacob, born Nov. 28th, christ'd Dec. 30th, 1866, at Reutigen, (V page 129). 111. Gotlieb Bettschen, named above Sub. No. 5, married on March 6th, 1869, at Thun, 2. Charles .Albert, born Feb. 2nd, christ'd died on Nov. 14th, 1876. His wife Suzanna March 1.5th, 1868, at Reutigen. Kiossner, daughter of David of Diemtigen, 3. Marie, born Apr. 11th, christened May born Feb. 4th, christened March 1838. 9th, 1869, at Reutigen, married on Oct. 16th, 1891, to Christian .Arnold Kipfer, schoolmaster Children: of Luetzelflueh. 1. Johann Adolf, born Aug. 22nd, 1869,

4. Frederick Wilhelm, born Apr. 9th, at Nicolskoye, Moscow, (V page 168). christened Tune 5th, 1870, at Reutigen, 2. Wilhelmine, born Dec. 10th, 1870, at (V page 155). Nicolskoye, Moscow. 3. Johanii Jacob, born Aug. 26th, 1873, The following is a supplement to the first at Nicolskoye, Moscow, married on May 25th, statement and concerns the family of: 1902, at Nessilorva, to Lydia Berger, daughter Johannes Bettschen, named Sub. No. 2 and of Samuel and Magdalena Kueng of Kien, born is drawn by his son Samuel, who is today Jan. March 13th, 1884. 14th, 70 years old. My father Johannes Reg. IV, page 191. Bettschen took service in the French Army at IV. Johann Friedrick Bettschen, named Besancon in April 1877 when he was only 16 Sub. No. 10, married on July 2-lth. 1879, died years, first as a groom to an Officer named Dec. 8th, 1892. His wife Suzanna Jisalina, Tfanden, who gave him a good training so daughter of Jo.sia Benjamin Borloz and of Suz that soon afterwards my father became Under- Judith Cuenod of Montreux, born Feb. 19th, Officer and after the Capitulation he returned 18-12. to Sv/itzerland as Adjudaut of the Regiment, Children: and settled down in his fathers home, Schwendli,

1. Jeanne Marguerite, born Dec. 11th, near Kien, Reichenbach. Then he took service 1880, at Montreux. as Lieutenant and Instructor in the bernese 2. Max Friederick, born Jan. 1st, 1884, .Army, where he advanced to a Chief Officer, at Montreux. and as such took part in the war between the 3. Louise Marguerite, born Sept. 2nd, Cantons in 1847. He left service only on Jan. 1887, at Tales Chatelard, died on Aug., 7 1888. 9th, 1860. Father Bettschen was a well

This copy is confirmed by the trained and experienced Officer, and his sub-

Keeper of the Register, alternes liked him. I keep his Brevet and Gottlieb Klossner Reichenbach. Diploma as dear relics. Had he had protection Dec. 22nd, 1909. and more capital, he would have advanced to Grand Hutcl, Mount Bein Les Baines- Engruir Ch. Friburj;, Sicrsee. Albert Bettschen, pmprietor.

proprietress. H.jtel d'Europe, Mcntreux, at Hern; Mrs. Fritz Bettsrhen,

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still a higher grade. Of his intelligence and 10 children. The second, .Albert, is keeping many other good qualities, his sons and the Hotel Europe at Montreux, and Hotel nephews have inherited part of. For instance Mont Barry near Greyerz. Wilhelm, the 3rd,

the four eldest sons were employed in the is foreman in the construction of roads and

service of the State or of the Common. My rivers, and is settled down at Wattemoyl.

brothers, named Sub. No. 3, 5, 6 and 10, alas! The fourth, Adolf, is schoolmaster at Biel; he

died too early and besides me there are alive has also the diploma as a Dr. phil., and is an only a brother John in Beaver-Dam, Ohio, and author, he has 6 children. My only daughter

a sister Verena, now at Utzigen, and Suzanna Marie is married to A. Kipfer, schoolmaster Katherina, widow of .Andreas Froald in and president of the parish of Reutigen. They America. Father and brother had for 40 years have i children. This would make for me

the post of President of the Common of Reichcn- 24 Great-children, and I may say that they are

bach, and they are still kept in good memory. all intelligent and well brought up.

1'- I myself at the age of years went about Xow 1 will conclude and will only add that

with my father to assist him in his works in our family 1 know no idiots, or illbred ones, Construction of bridges, ways, and correction nor anyone that has debts or needs support

of waters (rivers), and I worked myself up to from others.

what 1 am now, a very well situated man, This is the answer to my dear cousin Gottlieb keeping still my much envied position of an Bettschen's letter of Nov. last, which I sent to Inspector of roads and rivers. my son and cousins at Montreux, asking them

My eldest son Jacob is agriculturer, he has to answer it in English. for me to continue It will be also a pleasure Bruegger Branch correspondence with Gottlieb and to hear more I, a. Bruegger, .-Mt Kirchmeyer born about his family-tree book. Jacob 1740, married Elisabeth Kuentzie; they With kindest regards, lived in a house on the north side of the Samuel Bettschen road, leading from the Ruebrueck to Reutigen, Jan. 14th, 1910, Kandersteg, about 4 miles from the latter, (on my 70th biithday). 10 mmutes further than Reichens Hotel,

the place is called Mitholz. They had 7 P. S. I include a cut of a notice in a news- children: 1. Elsbeth, 2. Jacob, 3. Johanes, paper, "The Bund." This is the translation 4. Gilgian, 5. Maria, 6. Susana, 7. Antoni; of it:— of them hereafter. the 14th inst., Mr. Samuel Reutigen.—On I, b. Elsbeth, born 1770, married to David Bettschen who since 1862 was employed as Bettschen lived at the Ruebrueck, had 6 Inspector of roads and rivers by the State, children. (See Bettschen register) his birthday. Many con- accomplished 70th II, b. Jacob, born 17, — — structions of the above kind have been accom- at Mitholz, married to plished in different places under his surveyance. III, b. Gilgian, he had one daughter Elsie; wish him a happy eve of his life. We of her hereafter.

IV, b. Johannes

Y, b. Maria

VI, b. Susanna \II, b. Antoni, born 1799, called Anti 1. c. Elzie Bruegger. She was an amiable Bruegger, a great friend of Jacob Bett- young woman, and was a first cousin to schen, the father of the compiler, was mar- Jacob Bettschen. Her first husband was a Gruenig. ried His children are Jacob on the hill Herr They had a daughter. Boertly, Maria Traxel in Hash, mother of I, d. Susana, who was a good woman. She Gottlieb Traxel Zivilstand, Margrita became the wife of Christian Stoller, a man Zuercher a Schwandi and David Wandflu's of more than ordinary ability. They had wife was a daughter o( Antoni Bruegger. 7 children.

I, b. Elsbeth Biuegger, born 1771, at I, e. Christian Miltholtz, in the Kandergrund, Switzer- II, e. Robert land, was the eldest daughter of Alt Kirchmeyer (Jacob Bruegger) and his wife III, e. Askar Elsbeth Kuentzie. IV, e. Arnold, Postmaster at Rekethaal, at She was married to David Bettschen, the fort of Kobie Bruegger hill. He is watchmaker, in 1804. They lived at the married and has a family. Reybruegg until 1825, when she with her V, e. Alberta husband and 5 sons left for America. (See VI, e. Rosa, a beautiful blond maid born in Bettschen Branch). 1867. She is assistant Post Master.

IV', b. Gilgian Bruegger, had a family, one VII, e. Matilda, a brunette born in 1860. of them was the amiable. She is well educated and teaches school. 1, c. ELZIE BRURGGERS, SECOND Ill, e. Adeline, single. HUSBAND WAS JOHAN SCHMIDT. I\', e. Edith, single. Their children are: V, e. Edwin, single. 1, d. Johan, of Berlin, Ont. VI, e. Emma, single. H, d. David, of Fruetigen who has 3 sons.

V'll, e. Gottfried, single. n I , d. Mrs. Gottlieb von Kaennel, at Kand- 10 children. erbruegif. Thev have VIll, e. Alma, single.

IV, d. Kattie, a widow at Kanderbruegg. „,^ Mrs Got. von Kaennel. They ha She has 2 sons, Gottfried and John. 10 bovs and 1 sirl.

I, d. JOHAN SCHMIDT, OF BERLIN, ONT., IS MARRIED TO SUSIE VII, b. ANTONl BRUEGGER'S KATTIE MUERNER. CHILDREN.

They have 8 children. He was born in 1799, at Mitholtz, in Kandergrund, and was the third son of I, e. Maria, married to Maurice Patterson, Jacob Bruegger, Alt Kirchmeyer, and Shakespear, Ont. father of Jacob on the Hill, first cousin to

II, e. Alfred, married to I.ucy Reick, at Jacob Bettschen, the writer's father. His Stratford, Ont. children were: —— —

I, c. born in 1835 at Mitholtz. Margrita, Klopfet^stein Married to Mr. Zuercher. They live at Branch

Schwandie, about two miles from Rey- 1, a. Hans Klopfenstein, born in 1688, mar- bruegg on the way to Kien. She is ried .Anna Bruegger, his wife. Their mother of Mrs. David VVandflue, at the children are :

Wangibruegg. I, b. Peter, born October 17, 1718. was mar- ried to Margrita Luegibuehl. He was II, c. Maria Traxel, mother of Gottlieb Alt Almosener (Poormaster) in Kander- Traxel Zivilstand, at Fruetigen. She lives grund, Canton Bern, Switzerland. Their in the Haslie, five minutes walk from the children were : Reybruegg; has two sons, Samuel is a I, c. born September 22, 17-54, he lived small man, and Alfred is in Germany. Isaac, in Hash, Oberaml Fruetigen, and was III, c. Jacob Bruegger, called "Kobbie," married to Elisabeth Glausen, from Kan- wa.s born in 1834; married to Margrita dersteg. Their children are : Wandflue, one out of a family of 17 1, d. Abraham, the grandfather of the writer, children, all big people. They live about born in .April, 178-5, was married March 5, three miles from the Reybruegg, in the 1808, to Susanna Ryter, from Fruetigen, Kandergrund, upon a high hill called a daughter of the highly-respected Stat- Boertly. They have 2 sons. halter (Mayor), Johannes Ryter, whose I, d. Hans, (John) wife was Sara Rosser. They lived in the

II, d. Gottfried. They are tall fine men, Oey. Susanna Ryter Klopfenstein died single, and from 30 to 40 years old. October 13, 184-5. They had two sons and

(See Bruegger Sketch). two daughters ; of them hereafter. II, d. Elisabeth, born September 9, 1787, was lived three-quarters of a mile from the married to Christian Lenherr at Speitz. Delefeld, on Reinish Oberampt P'ruetigen. Her husband was an excellent penman. I, d. Isaac, born December, 1789, died Anton Bueshlen was her second husband. July 29, 1860. He lived in the Oey and She had no children. The writer visited was a bachpjor. the cosy home in 1909. Both house and called schoolmaster in IV, d. Johannes, barn were built by Susanna and her first married Ohio, born August 12, 1792; husband. Religious verses decorate the Reichen. She March 1, 1814, to Elisabeth gable ends. was the daugter of Abraham Reichen, II, e. Elisabeth, the mother of the writer, Amts-stadt halter of Fruetigen, and Susan- was born March 17 and baptised March na Reichen, September 2, 1892. They 22, 1810, and came with her father, Abra- lived in Gallon, Ohio. They had four sons ham Klopfenstein, to America, 1828, and

and two daughters ; of them hereafter. was married to Jacob Bettschen, May 29, V, d. Susanna, born August 2, 1801, married 18-30, and lived in the township of Wilmot, Johannes Waffler, July 17, 1821. They County of Waterloo, Ontario, where she of had five sons and three daughters ; died on May 2-5, 1888. They had seven sons them hereafter. and three daughters. (See Biography).

ABRAHAM KLOPFENSTEIN'S in, e. Abraham, born October 25, 1812, CHILDREN, I, d. came with his father to Canada in 1828. In 1829 to the State of Ohio, I, e. Susanna, born January 12, 1809, married he went Gilgian Schmidt February 6, 1830. She where he lost his life on a steamboat. was a kind and good living woman. They (See Biography).

-54— IV, e. Johannes, born October 25, 1814. VI, e. A daughter married to Mr Fridley. He came with his father to Canada in They had a family and moved from Ohio 1828 His father took up lot No. 5, 200 to the State of Indiana, into Vonwerth acres in the 2nd Concession, Block A, in County, where they carried on farming. the township of Wilmot, County of Water- loo, Ontario. He was married to Polly Krumbach. They first lived in Canada JOHA.VNES THE SCHOOLMASTER'S and then moved to Michigan. They had CHILDREN, IV, d.

sLk children ; of them hereafter. I, e. Johannes, born June 26, 1814, married

V, e. Isaac, married to a Miss Bittikofer_ July 7, 186'), to Susanna Katerina StoUer, They lived at Sulpher Springs, Crawford daughter of Christian Stoller and Susanna County, Ohio. He was a thorough busi- Bruegger. They had four children. Or ness man, starting life with nothing. them later. They lived in the Oey. He With sheer energy and perseverance he .had stayed with Isaac the batchelor. accumulated a fine property, carrying on II, e. Isaac, born March, 1817, married to farming, horse-breeding and droving. Susanna Pieren. They lived on the old They raised a family, the oldest being a schoolmaster's farm, Ohio. They had . . son named John. He met a premature

children ; of them hereafter. death by falling off a load of hay and being crushed by the wagon going over him. III, e. Samuel, born September, 1818, mar- ried had children He was a highly-respected citizen and a and lived the old good business man, as well as a kind hus- on homestead in Galion, Ohio.

band with a religious turn of mind. The IV, e. Abraham, born August 1, 1822, died writer knew him well. a bachelor. —

V, e. Elisabeth, born April 18, 1830, married V'l, e. Margrita, born 1832, died . . . to Mr. Baliard. They had five children; VII, e. Frederick, born 1836, married to

lived in Galion, Ohio ; of them herafter. Bohler. They live in Columbus, Ohio.

VI, e. Susanna, born November 21, 1834, VIII, e. Wilhelm, born 1842; married M. married. Klopfenstein. CHILDREN OF SUSANNE (KLOPFEN- Grand- Children of Johannes Klop- (son of the school- STEIN) WAEFFLER. daughter of Isaac fenstein, N, d. master) who lived with Isaac the Klopfenstein, married to Johannes Waef- bachelor in the Oej'. fler. Their children are : I, e. Susanna, married Lenhard. They live I, e. Johannes, born 1822, married to a on the Deiefeld, half-way betwen Frueti- Kratzer; died 1889. They lived in Swit- gen and Reybruegg. zerland. II, e. Elisabeth, married to Mr. Wandflue. II, e. Susanna, born 1824, married to Pieren. They live on the Bioic Stuiz, fifteen min- They live in Adelboden, Switzerland. utes walk from the Reybruegg towards Kandersteg. HI, e. Isaac, born 1827, a bachelor, died III, Kater- 1894 in Switzerland. e. Johannes, married to Susanna ina SioUer, daughter of Christian Stoller IV', e. Maria, born 1828; married a Witwer, and Susanna Bruegger, his wife. They

Died . . . live in the old Klopfenstein house in the V, e. Samuel, born 1830, married to Miss Oey, near the Ruebruegg, in Switzerland. Egger. They lived four miles from IV, e. Maria, married to Samuel Pieren, a .Aliance, Ohio. The compiler and his wife baker. They live at Adelboden Dorf, in visited them in 1896. Switzerland.

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5 > - ^' ~ LjU The Bettschen Pioneer Settle- the entire corner of lots. Fig. 4, 5, 10 and 11. ment Explanation The}- afterward moved to Bethany Co., Well- ington, Ont. In the second and third concessions, 5. Lot 6, 2nd concession, S. half, 100 block A, Township Wilmot, district Welling- acres settled by Jacob Bettschen in 1828. It ton, Upper Canada, now (1910) County Wat- is yet in the hands of the family and is erloo, Province, Ontario. known as "Vineyard Farm," a splendid home stead. It has been the centre of many inter- 1. Lot 6, 3rd concession, S. half, 100 esting incidents. acres settled by John Millar in 1826. He was the founder of New Dundee. 6. tiOX. 5, 2nd concession, S. hail, 100 acres settled by Abraham Klopfenstein, Sr., 2. Lot 5, 3rd concession, S. half, 100 in 1829, who afterward moved to GaUon, acres settled by David Bettschen, the first and Ohio. His son John remained on the farm. oldest Bettschen that came to America. He 7. Lot 3, 2nd con., N. half, 100 acres, afterwards moved to Lot 7. bought from the Canada Company by Abra- N. half, settled 3. Lot 5, 3rd concession, ham Klopfenstein, for his son Abraham, who by Dan. Schaefer, a Kentucky hunter. He did not accept it but went to Ohio. It was squated and cleared the famous Schaefer afterward occupied by David Millar, a broth- Shanty field. er of John Millar.

4. Lot 6, 3rd concession, N. half, settled 8. Lot 6, 2nd concession, X. half, 100 by Thomas and Henry Hall from Yorkshire, acres, settled by Mosses Biehn from Waterloo England. They were choppers and cleared County. 9- Ix>t 7, 2nd concession, N. half, loo 20. Beaver Creek, socalled because Beav- acres settled in 1835, by Gilgian and Gottlieb ers had built a dam and Uved in it. Bettschen. In 1841 Gilgian moved to Beth- 21. Hallman's Creek, socalled because it any, Wellington County, Ontario, when David came from the Hallman farms. his father moved on the farm. Gottlieb soon afterward moved to Wellesley Township on Jacob Bettschen's miill pond and saw a farm, and from there to Hay Township, miU. Ontario. 23. Beaver Dam, made by the beavers.

10, II, and 12 were unoccupied bush lots. 24. Reichard's Trout Dam.

13. that leads to Roseville Road and 25. Schaefer's Shanty Field. Gait. 26. Original Bush Roads, marked by 14. Road, 3rd concession Line. Blazed trees, not cut out. 15. Petersburg Road. 27. Deer Path, over which the deer went 16. Huron Road leading from Hamilton from the Waterloo Plains to the Wilmot to Goderich. Pineries and back getting a drink as they crossed the Alder Creek. It was here whert 17. New Dundee Mill Pond. Jacob Bettschen counted thirty-one deer 18. Alder Creek, also Trout Creek. Its while they crossed. banks were covered with Alders, hence the 28. Bear Trail leading from the Dam to name. the Waterloo Plains, over which the bear 19. Reichard's Trout Creek. went for a drink in summer. It was where it crosses the bush road, Fig. 26, where Jac- 35. Public Temperance House, the first ob met and shot a bear carrying a piece of a one in this part of the woods, built by Mr. hog he had killed the night previous. The Miliar; singular is it not? It is in that

bear intended to take it home to his hole in house where the compiler is writing this ac- the Wild Pine Plains. count, as weU as drawing the diagram on July 20th and 21st, 1910, nearly one hundred 29. Bear Traps made of logs. years later.

30. Indian huts. In the one on Lot, Fig. 36. John Millar's house and barn, where 6, the Ultshes lived at the time when Eliza- he first kept a small store. His brother, beth had the chase after the buck in the job Fred afterwards lived there and owned the field north of the house. whole property, John moving one-half mile 31. Indian Stone Crossing connecting thi further south. two trails. 37. Cemetery at New Dundee. 32. Wild Plum bottom on the flats near 38. Gottlieb Bettschen's Travellers' Inn, the Alder about fifty trees standing there. on the corner of Huron and Petersburg roads Alder peo- 33. Big Log across the where from where he aitorwards moved to \\ eUesIey. ple crossed when on foot, as there was no His father occupied the place until death. bridge. Those having oxen crossed a few 39. David Millar's home where he kept a rods further south and drove around the big small store. hiU that is now a gravel pit. 40. Rosebank Ceanetery and sciiool 34. Saw Mill built by John Millar, the house where nine of the Bettschen family are fiest one in the township. buried. (a) The squares indicate the exact spot (d) Shows where the first frame dwell- where David Bettschen's house, barn and ing in the township was built by Jacob Bett- blacksmith shop stood. All are away now. schen. It is there yet.

(b) The spot where Abraham Klopfen- (e) Is where Gilgian Bettschen lived, and stein's house and barn stood. They are his father David afterward. The house is away now. away now.

(c) Shows where Jacob Bettschen's first (f) Is the barn built by Gilgian Bett- shantv stood. It is away now. schen in 1837. ^t is standing yet.

Note.—All the buildings excepting house

(d) and barn (f) are gone and all the pioneers referred to have long since passed away. I.i«.ie li;di:irt :iiul fciinily, (kili..n, Ohi

CHILDREN OF JOHANNES KLOPFEN- VI, f. Freeman, the youngest son, is a tall

STEIN AND HIS WIFE, POLLY man. He is married and has a fine wife KRUMPACH. and family. They live on a farm four miles

I, f. Mary Ann, was married to David from Lake Odessa in the Staie of Mich. Klingman. a farmer. They lived in Kent ^^^^._The names of the g. generation could County, Michigan. They had one child, ^^^ j,^ obtained. a boy named David, who was born about 1860. Mary Ann died, but her only son LIZZIE BALIARDS CHILDREN, V, e. David Klingman grew up and became a i_ f. Samuel, married, is living in Galion, tall and lived at Odesa, Mich. man Lake Ohio. He is a machinist.

II, f. up to be a man. lived , ... ,. ., ' Isaac, ^grew "^ He ,, ^ ' II, f. a son living near Oalion, on the . with his parents on a farm in Gains Top, j '^ ^ Ballard„ i- farm.r . . Kent County, Michigan, where he died. III, married ,,, e c t-A /= ' f a daughter, to a Mr. III, f grew up to be a fine young Sarah Ann, . ,..,,. ^ . , . • Mackie. Thev live in Cralion, Ohio, c-i J 1 ' and lady, she is dead. . carry on a milk business. IV, f. Anna, was a handsome girl. She married Jacob Roth from Canada. They 'V, f a daughter, married to a Mr. ^oat. They live on a farm near Galion, lived near the old homestead in Kent County, Michigan, on a farm. They had Ohio. a to several grown children, at least two girls ^' V, f. John, grew up to be a man, but died while still at home. They have families and are well-to-do. —57— OF THE SETTSCHEN ANCESTORS

The ruling name of the Bettschens was also David Bettschen, born 1753 at Aaris. "David." The first born son always received This was a son of the former David. He was that name. This family has lived many cen- Pattrouleur (Patrolman). Died -May 25, 1829. turies in the Berner Oberland, Switzerland. His wife was Magdalena Mueller from Louter- It is not known when and where they origin- brunen. (See Biography.) ally came from. They have intermarried Children: —Magdalena, born 1780; married in 1828. with other families so that now this name is Gilgian Zuercher David, bom 1782, found in many parts of Switzerland, Ger- married Elsbeth Bruegger. many, France, Russia, the United States and Canada. Aaris, Oberamt, Reichenbach in the BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID BETTSCHEN, GUIDE. Canton Bern, in the north-easterly part of MOUNTAIN

Frutigthaal, in the Oberland is the centre and David belonged to one of the old families original Bettschen home. The first name that that inhabited the Fruetig ThaaJ ("meaning by is on the record in the church book at Reich- interpretation, fruitful valley) in Canton enbach official register of the Oberaint in Berne, Switzerland. He was born 1723 at which Aaris lies, is David Bettschen, a Berg Aaris Oberampt, (Parish), Reichenbach. In Fuehrer (mountain Guide) born in 1723, (See his early boyhood he showed unmistakable Biography) and Johannes Bettschen, a bro- signs of courage, being possessed of a strong ther of the said David Bettschen. The next is constitution, sound heart, well expanded Rcybrucgg-, as it was in 1846. The second liouse from the end of the bridge is the house where David Bettschen, the watchmaker, lived previous to his departure for America in 1825, and where his whole family were born, Jacob in 1808. Behind and a little higher the house covered with stones is where Johanes Bettschen, the blacksmith, lived. The curved road leads from Fructigen H miles to tlie left in a south-westerly direction through the Kander grund valley. The first house on the right side of the road is where (Jilgian Traxel, a zimmerman, lived and raised 31 children. It was there Jacob Bettschen, the compiler's father, made his home in 1846-47. The corner of the bruegg is visible at the building in which CJilgian performed a great feat of strength by carrying one of the stringers from his home to the bridge alone.

Reybruefjg and its surroundings as it appeared in 19119. The Kander in front running tow-ards the bruegg. The compiler standing in the field opposite. The middle house is the Bettschen home ; between it and the third house is the Haesli gaesli that leads up to the neighbourhood near the mountains called Haesli, also to the Aev. lungs, good stomach and level head; was thus the wind and its results; know when and naturally adapted for the hardships, priva- where avalanches occur, where landslides may tions and dangers to which he is exposed come down. An outfit is necessary consisting who would undertake to lead strangers of heavy shoes provided with iron nails with through and over the almost unsurmountable heads one-half inch square to prevent slipping, precipices, horns, glaciers, lakes and caves of a stick eight or nine feet long with ar- iron

Switzerland. The one who undertakes this spike in the bottom. This is used to hunt responsible task must have a strong heart to cracks in the ice when covered with snow back him up when confronted by dangerous and to assist in going up as well as bracing. passages. He must have a good stomach to A coil of rope thirty feet long is also car- endure hunger when the supply of fooJ runs ried by each guide; this is fastened to the out and he is up in some wild desert place, guide who walks on ahead and held fast by may be, in knee deep snow. He must have a one, two or more who follow, so that if the large chest with well developed lungs, as it first one should slip or fall into a crack the is absolutely necessary to inhale more air as others can pull him up and save him. Should the moimtains are ascended. The farther up another one get dizzy, by holding fast, he will the more air is needed. The lungs n\ust be not tumble. Thus the rope is indispensible. perfectly sound or they will give way result- Each man carries a bag strapped to his ing in hemorage, causing almost instantaneous shoulders in which he carries bread, cheese, death. He must have a thorough knowledge wine and white lump sugar, a field glass, a of the passes, paths, cracks, caves and ice as knife that has a saw, lacing needle, cork well as snow accumulations; must know a screw, cutting blade, a steel for striking fire, forecast as to the probability of the weather, flint and punk, a watch, pipe and tobacco. This is the entire outfit. was made to walk lame, the gentries object- David having been raised among the ing to his attendance on that account, ac- mountains and being prepared with all the tually allowed the short leg to be broken and requirements soon became known as an ex- by means of a weight and pulley have it pert, consequently he was sought by the stretched, and when it was healed and he wealthier class of tourists who came to see stood upon it, to his horror it was too long, the great, wonderful and beautiful scenes of and had to be broken a second time to be Switzerland. made shorter. Among the many dignataries whom he DAVID BETTSCHEN, had the pleasure of leading over the world re- BIOGRAPHY OF nowned Alps was the distinguished German PATTROLEUR. General Lentulus who had been chief of Fred- David was born at Aaiis where the Bett- erick the Great's army. So much was the schen family Uved for centuries. In 1909 the General taken up by the subtle and active compiler visited Aaris and went into the

Swiss that he proposed to take him along to Bettschen house. It is believed to be about

Prussia where he ofiered to secure for him an eight hundred years old, during which time it honorable military position. David, however, must have been- reshingled over a dozen declined, as he chose rather to breathe the times. It was occupied all that time. As pure mountain air and to enjoy the pleasures far as is known the name Bettschen has of achieved triumphs over dangerous adven- never been lost to that place during that tures. time. This David was not so adventurous as

It was told that his daring resoluteness his father, but is said to have been a good was so strong that, when he, by some means. citizen. He was bom A. D. 1753 and died May 25, 1829, aged 76 years. His wife was cigar maker. They raised a family and after Magdelena Mueller from Louterbrunen near his death the household effects were divided Interlacken. She was a beautiful woman. among the children. Fred being the oldest They had a family of six children and lived son, his mother gave him the pictures, think- at Fruetigen. He was a patrolman. It is ing he was entitled to them, being the old- noteworthy that this couple is the first of est. Fred got them framed and holds them whom a picture is in existence of the whole in sacred remembrance, being his great connection of the family book. Those pic- grand parents as well as to the compiler. tures are in possession of Frederick Schroed- er, living in Hamilton, Ont. They are oil BIOGRAPHY OF JOHANNES RYTER, paintings two by three feet. The pictures BUERGERSTADT HALTER OF FRUT- were painted when David and his wife were in IGAN. middle life. They are well executed. They He was born about 1754. He was mar- were the property of their daughter Maria ried to Sarah Rosser. They lived in Fruti- Elizabeth who was m.arried to John Von gan at the tune of the French invasion at the Gunten, a watchmaker from SigriswU, Can- command of Napoleon Bonaparte. The peas- ton, Bern. At her death at Biel where they antry around the town plotted to poison the had been living, her two daughters, Louisa French soldiers, which, when Mr. Ryter heard and Rosina who lived with her till she died, of it, was promptly frustrated by him, hav- took the pictures out of the frames rolled ing by virtue of his office the power and in- them up and putting them into a trunk, fluence to prevent that awful deed, and by brought them along to Hamilton, Ont., doing that he prevented the utter destruc- where Louisa married Frederick Schrocder, a tion of the whole town; for had the poisoning taken place, no doubt the victorious French BIOGRAPHY OF DAVID BETTSCIUv.V, would have laid the town in ashes, besides WATCHMAKER. taking the lives of both innocent and guilty. David was born at Aaris in 1782. He was By this wise and Christian act Mr. Ryter the second of the Pattroleurs' children. He gained for himself a reputation of which his being the oldest son, was, according to the descendants maj' be proud. He was also a custom of that country, named after his fa- religious man. This is manifest by an in- ther. He was courageous, daring and adven- scription which the compiler found in 1909 on turous, taking after his grandfather, the the gable end of a barn built by him, situa- guide. At the age of seventeen he voli.utar- ted in a field fifteen minutes' walk from Fruet- Patrolic which was hast- igen on the Reichenbach road. The place is Uy joined the army called Niederfeld. The letters are beautifully ily mustered and led against the invading cut out in front along the gable end and read French at the command of Napoleon Bone- as follows: —"Hier Nacht eine Schauer, Las part. The seventeen year old lad with the die warnung gelten. Folgt ihr imd meinem rest manifested great enthusiasm and hero- raht, ist doch es gut gemient. Bekert euch zu ism; but they were overpowered by the over- Gott mit fasten, wachen beten, so geh es wie whelming forces of the victorious French. es wU, so sind wir doch mit Gott vereint. When the news was received that Bern, the Gebauen durch Burgerstathalter Johan Ryter capital city had surrendered the lamentation und Sara Rosser im yahr 1800." His daugh- ter was married to Abraham Klopfenstein was so great among the older soldiers that who emigrated to America in 1828. This some broke their swords, some wept and was the father of Abraham the lost son, am' others cursed, while others committed sui- EUzabeth who martitd Jacob Bettschen ain'. cide. David next was foimd at La Chode- ,Tohn Klopfenstein who died in Michigan. fong, a watch and clock manufacturing town ° < i g

in the French speaking part of Switzerland. tant new world. They travelled westward There he learned the watchmaking trade and and got to Paris. From there they continued married Elizabeth Bruegger. She was a and after a tedious journey they got to daughter of Jacob Bruegger who was alt Havre where they took a sail ship, upon Kirch Meyer and lived at Mitholtz, half way which they were tossed to and fro for eighty- between the Reybruegg and the village of Kan- two days, when at last they arrived at the dersteg. She was a hearty and energetic re- Castle Garden in the City of New York on ligious woman. They moved to Reybruegg, Sept. 2nd of the same year after a stormy thirty minutes' walk from Fruetigen, in a voyage of eighty-two days. This was the southerly direction. There in O.tc second first family that had up to that time landed house from the bridge, on the left side t f the on this side of the Atlantic from that part of road that leads to Kandersteg, about "re Europe. They remained several months in hundred yards from the bridge, (see picture), that city, and while there they had the hon- they lived for many years, he mamifattLruj!; or of playing for the famous General Lafay- both watches and clocks. One of chi- clock.s ette, who had with his regiment of French- made by him is still in the possossiOQ of bis men nobly assisted George Washington and grandsons John and Jabez Bi.-iischen at the American army to force the British under Weisenburg, Wellington Co., Ont. Here ali General Lord Cornwalis to surrender. Lafay- the children were born. From here they ette was on a visit to the land of the free. started with two wagons to emmigrate to They then as a caravan started from New America on the loth of June 1825. They York and travelled westward, as there were were the first family that left that part and no railroads then, and on the loth of July, undertook the hazardous journey to the dis- 1826 the family arrived in a small village on the western shore of Lake Ontario in Upper During the first two years, Jacob being a Canada, now called Ontario, about five miles splendid mechanic and an expert watchmak- northwest of Hamilton, called Dundas. Here er, assisted his father in the shop, while the David, his wife and four sons, Jacob, Chris- other sons were busy peddling and selling the tian, Gottlieb and Gilgian bought a small imported stock among the few settlers. It house and lot on the Waterloo road where was during those years that the Bettschen they lived for several vears, and at once family got so favorably acquainted with opened a watch and clock repair shop. The some of the wealthiest and most respected Township of Waterloo at that time was be- families occupying farms between Dundas and ing settled by Pennsylvania Dutch, whose Hamilton; among others there were the market place was Dundas. The Bettschens Ashboughs, Bingleys, Bambergers, well-to-do soon became known and noted as expert farmers. watch and clock repairers. David being of an About the year 1828 Jacob took a stroll enterprising nature at once sent to Kurope, through the County of Waterloo and located to the Schwartzwald (Black forest) for on lot six, second concession, Block A, WU- clocks and for several years did a good busi- mot. Da'vid still carried on the watch and ness. Thus they became the first importers business with his of clocks and watches from Europe to Upper clock until 1831, when he wife and Canada. To this day there are a good many the three youngest sons, Christian, clocks and watches kept as relics by the des- Gotlieb and Gilgian moved into the Town- cendents of those sturdy pioneers who had ship of Wilmot, County of Waterloo, about purchased them from the Bettschens. fifty miles west of Dundas. Here he became a pioneer, locating on lot five, third conces- simple Swiss style of living. Coarse home- sion, block A. Wilmot, half a mile east cf the made bread, sweitzer cheese, potatoes and village of Xew Dundee, a dense forest cover- Swiss coffee was his li "ing; no luxuries of any ing the land. kind being used. David his sons at once set to work and The writer was personally acquainted clearing up and building a log house aru log with both husband and wife, and often con- barn. Here for ten years they lived a regul- versed with them, receiving much informa- ar pioneer life, living on venison, beatmeat, tion regarding their forefathers. David was potatoes, vegetables and milk, a strength a talkative man, given to hospitalit}-, a producing diet necessary for chopping in the great friend of companv, rather outspoken, winter and logging in the summer. About but honest and very courageous. He was ex- the year 1842 the farm was sold to an Eng- ceedingly kind to the cattle, so that lish family by the name of AUchin and the so much Bettschens moved to the north half of lot it became a byword, "as kind as Bettschen is seven, second concession, two miles north- to his cows.' He believed that cattle should west. The farm faces the Huron road on the be fed and milkel regularly every day, at the north and the road leading from New Dundee same time treated kindly and not scared, to Petersburg. This farm is hilly wiOi a nor dogged, kept scrupilously clean; the hay

small cold water creek running through it, made early before the grass is fully grown. called Beaver Creek alive with speckled trout. In his latter years he had some money to Here a sort of retired farming was carried loan but would ne.er take more than six per on, a sort of private dairy on the Swiss cent, interest, although in those days high in- style. Vp to his death he adhered to the terest, could be obtained. He li>'ed to the ripe old age of eighty-fivt Reybruegg in a southerly direction. In the year years; he died in 1867, taking with him all 1828, he with his two sons, John and Abra- his teeth to the grave. His wife Elizabeth, ham and his daughter Elizabeth, started by a pious, Godfearing woman preceeded him, wagon for America. His wife being of a tim- having died in 185b at the venerable age of id nature and fearing to cross the Atlantic, eighty-six years. They are both buried in the stayed at the old home and the daughter Rosebank cemetery two miles north of New Susana remained with her. They went by Dundee, Ont., on the Huron road. For "coat wagon as far as Havre, where they embarked of arms," belonging to the Bettschen familj^ on a sailing vessel, arriving at New York see cover page. after ninety days of sea voyage. While cross- ing the ocean Elizabeth, by the swaying of BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHM KLOIFEN- the vessel, came near slipping overboard, but her and STEIN, SR. a sailor who was near caught saved her from being drowned. (Father of P'lizabeth, wife of Jacob B'H- After reaching New York they again tschen.) travelled by wagon nearly five hundred miles, Abraham Klopfenstein was born in April, reaihing Wilmot, Ont., enduring a great 1785, in the Oey, Canton Bern, Switzerland, many hardships, anxiety and privations. Up- and belonged to a highly res;ected family. on reaching Wilmot Abraham, at once took He was married to Susana Ryter whose fa- up two hundred acres of forest land, being ther was Bnrgenstatt halter of Fruetigen, lot No. 5 in the 2nd concession, block "A," who was a man universally respected. They Wilmot, Ont. He and the two sons put up a lived in the Oey, six minutes' walk frt)m the shant}' on the southeasterly part of the lot The house in the Aey near the Reybruegg. This has been the home of the Khipfensteins for centuries. Abraham Klopfenstein lived there previous to his departure for America in 1828. In this place Elizabeth, the wife of Jacob Bettschen, was born in 181(1. Johan Klopfenstein, a nephew, is living there now. The compiler had It taken specially for this work (19U9), and can be seen standing near the house, which is a typical oberlacnder heim.

on the east side of the Alder creek, which 1825 emmi;rated to America. Jacob by this was alive with speckled trout. Soon after time had received a common German educa- John married and made that his home- tion which consisted of reading, writing and Abraham, the father went to Ohio a few recording. He was then seventeen years old years after, locating about four miles south- and shared with the rest the tedious journey east of Galion, Ohio, where he lived until his with wagoris to the shore of the mighty At- death. lantic, a distance of nearly one thousand miles. BETTSCHEN, BIOGRAPHY OF JACOB As steam boats at that time were not AND FARMER AND WATCHMAKER vet known, the family embarked upon a sail- HIS WIFE ELIZABETH KLOPFEN- ing vess.l. After being tossed about by the STEIN BETTSCHEN. boisterous waves for eighty-two days, the

Jacob Bettschen was bom May 8, lSo8 in ship landed safely in New York harbor on the second house from the Reybruegg on the Sept. 22, 1825. Absolute strangers in a southeasterlv side of the Kandersteg road strange and far ofi land, the family not about one hundred vards from the bridge. knowing what to do or where to go, lingered His father was David Bettschen, a son of in the city for several months struggling (ot David Bettschen the Pattroleour, and his an existence.

mother was Elizabeth, a daughter of .Tacob They finally started by wagon in a west- Brueggtr, who lived about six miles farther erly direction, .no railroads being in existence. up in the Thaal, at a place called Mitholtz. They moved slowly, sometimes over rough Here David carried on watch and clock mak- roads, sometimes over hills and through for- ing until the whole family on June loth, ests, until after travelling five hundred miles, on Julv lo, 1.S26 they arrived tired and near- ered with a mixture of sugar maple, beach, ly discoiira^Ejed at Dundas, at that time a several kinds of elm, basswood, white and small village at the most westerly point of red oak, white and black ash, cheery, sweet Lake Ontario in what was then called Upper and bitter hickory, birch and many other Canada. Here a watch and clock business smaller kinds. There were different kinds of was at once started. Jacob for two years maple, the common hard or sugar assisted his father in building up a business. maple, the birdeye, the curly and the soft It was during that time that he became maple. There was the white, red and blue acquainted with some of the new settlers, beach, the rock, soft, slippery water and bas- among which were the Ashboughs, Batnberg- tard elm. There was white, red, burly and ers and Binglies, families living between Ham- scrub oak; white and black ash; the big many people cherry. Wild beasts ilton and Dundas, as well as black , choke, and red li\-ing along the Grand River in the County such as deer, bears, wolves, foxes, wild cats, of Waterloo. Ivnx, porcupines, and racoons existed in About the year 1829 Jacob made a tour great numbers. The forest in some places in a westerlv direction, and on foot trave'lled was fairly alive with black, grey and red the then densely wooded townships of Wilmot, squirrels and chipmunks and once in a while Blenheim, Wellesley, Zorra, North and South a weasel could be seen. The creeks were full

East Hope. At that time very few settlers of fish, mostly speckled trout. Minks and had located, and others that had, were liv- muskrats lived in all streams. Beavers were ing in small shanties with but very small here and there in dams of their own build. clearings where the shanties stood. The Otters were not so plentiful and were gener- countrj- for the most part was heavily timb- ally in deep water. The innumerable birds seen and heard everywhere added much to the eight hundred acres of land, a lot of two delight of the pioneer. There were very many hundred for each in the family, viz., Daniel, specia, from the five foot high crane down to Jacob, Polly and Christian. The .\lder creek the tiny hummingbird, eagles, hawks, owls, is running from north to south through a quails, partriches, were plentiful, and wild belt of solid hard wood, passing through the turkevs, ducks and geese could be seen at village of New Dundee, where a Scotchman bv certain seasons. The wild geese migrated in the name of John Millar put up a saw mill large numbers towards the south in the fall and made what is known as the Dundee Dam and towards the north in the spring. Nearly supplied by water from the Alder. On the

all smaller birds go south in autumn and re- east of this hard wood belt with its several turn in the spring. cedar swamps where springs supplied the About this time Daniel and Jacob Reich- Alder with the best clear, cold water, was ard settled in the township of Wilmot; the the Waterloo pine plains and pine forest. On latter put up a saw mill driven by water the west was the Wilmot pinery, all tall from the Alder creek, near where it crossed thick trees. Those pineries had not yet been the Huron road. The Huron road had just settled and game of all kinds was plentiful. been opened up by the Reichard famiK from Deer, bear and the like would cross the Alder the Grand River in the Township of Water- when going from one place of safety to the loo, where, the old Reichard homestead was, other and there quench their thirst.

all the way up to Lake Huron from which it Jacob was delighted with the mixed, beau- derived its name. It terminated where the tiful and endless forest full of animal life

town of Godcrich now is. For this Mr. and was greatly tempted to be a hunter and Reichard received from the Canada Company thinking it would be a good place for an out- post in connection with the Dundas clock out from the fire which was made on a flat

business took up the south half of lot No. 6, stone, upon which the food was cooked in a second concession, block "A," Township of long handled pan. Two holes were bored in- Willmot, about fifty miles west of Dundas, and to a log on the side into which sticks were after having been to Dundas he came to his put upon which a small board was laid and bush home with nothing but a healthy body, this served as a table. A trimmed stump in ambitious mind, and an axe in hand. V."',h the centre was used as a seat. In one corner

the help of his younger brothers Gottlieb and stood a rude bed, on the wall hung a rifle, Gilgian they cut down the trees on a little and in the corner an axe. Thus was the elevation one hundred jards from the .i^lder pioneer home furnished. creek which passes over lot five and crosses In this place for some time Jacob kept lot six near the road. house alone, his food consisting of venison, They then put up a log shanty twelve by potatoes and coarse bread baked in hot ashes eighteen feet with a slant roof. The roof was on the hearth. Potatoes mostly were baked made of small basswood trees split in two with the skins on. and hollowed, the half laid down with the About this time Jacob again went to hollow up and the other half placed over the Dundas and while there visited the Bingley, joints, all the cracks being closed with moss. Bamberger and Ashbough families. After a An opening in the side with four panes of few daysof enjoyment he started for his bush glass eight by ten inches served as a window. home again. They gave him a few apples and A door made in the most primative way pears to eat on the journey. He kept the kept the cold out. A chimney made with seed and planted it in a small enclosure he sticks plastered over with clay let the smoke called his garden.

-70— First Shanty put up h\ Juc.ili Bettschen, 1S:S, in wliicli lie lived for a time.

About the vear 1828 Abraham Klopfen- fence. The following day on his return Jacob stein with his two sons Abraham and John was surprised sure enough, finding that some and daughter Elizabeth came from Fruetigen, one had pulled up every apple and pear tree Switzerland and located on lot five, second that had grown from the seeds out of the session, next lot from Jacob's to the east Dundas fruit he had planted the previous fall. over which the Alder creek run all the way He hunted the torn up a?ple trees from among from the Huron road. Abraham with his the refuse outside and replanted them care- two sons put up a log house about two hun- fully. The result was that nine apple trees dred yards from Jacob's shanty on the east and one pear tree grew and became the first side of the creek. They cleared part of the orchard in that neighborhood. Some of the south half. His son John soon married Polly trees are standing at the time of writing and Grumbach whose parents lived one mile are in a good condition. Meantime Jacob's south of Rojeville, a distance of five miles stock had increased, not as much as Jacob's avvav. Two very large willow trees near the of old, but he was the happy possessor of a creek is all that remains to :nark the place yoke of oxen called Bock and Bright, a cow where the Klopfensteins lived. In the fall of and a dog. Tiger. The implements were a 1829, Jacob being away from home, Elizabeth two wheeled cart, a three corned harrow went up to look around; noticed that the so- made out of a crotch with wooden teeth and called garden was weedy and what she a chain. thought were wild little trees, thinking to In 1830, May 29, Jacob and Elizabeth prepare a nice little surprise on Jacob, went took the oxen and on the cart without to work cleaning and pulling up evervthing springs, drove to Preston, twelve miles dis-

that seemed to be wild throwing it over the tant, on the Grand River, and there were

71- married by Squire William ScoUic, a magis- woods to the home with the oxen and there trate, no minister being within twelve miles. erected and became the first frame dwelling It was legal for a magistrate to oiliciate. in Wilmot. It is still standing as a relic. From Preston they drove all the way to Soon after a log barn was put up, which was Dundas with the cart outfit. There they a great convenience at the time. Many visited the parents and then returned home, startling incidents occurred the first few driving over stony newly made roads through vears. swamps, over hills, passing between stumps, in some places driving through forests. Thus A HAXD TO HAXD EXCOVXTER WITH A DEER BUCK. one hundred miles were travelled in going and coming. The newly married couple then One morning Jacob started out early and started in hope to clear the land and build went out on the Waterloo plains. In this better buildings. The first grain was thrash- part many vears previous fire had destroyed ed in open air upon planks laid on the the big trees. A new growth had grown up ground, the oxen tramping out the grain, and no one had as yet settled there. At the straw being removed the grain that time percusion caps were not known. A

was made free from chaff by throwing it muzzle loading flint lock rifle, a hunting against the wind with a wooden shovel made knife and a tomahawk were the weapons out of Lasswood. Many were the hardships carried by the hunter. AU of a sudden Jacob and privations they had to endure. In the saw a deer not far from him standing broad- year 1830 a frame twenty by twenty-two was side. A shot was fired. The ball passed purchased from Mr. Salsbtrger in the Town- through the body of the deer. The hunter ship of Waterloo and was taken through the thinking the deer would tumble to the

—72- Dwrllin^r in ,|ie township of Wilmot, built by Jacob Bettsclicii, 183(1: It is standing yet on Vineyard Farm.— A. D. 1910. u^&kii: ground, instead of reloading as an expert beast's throat. Thus ended a fight which

hunter would have done, started to advance would have ended the hunter's life had the toward the wounded animal. The deer on his deer not been shot before. The horns of that part showed fig^ht. With its head lowered it deer are yet in the Bettschen family and are came toward its assailant. Jacob turning in the possession of one of Jacob's sons, the rifle dealt a blow, his gun landing between Frederick. The skin is parted between the the antlers of the deer. The deer onl) nod- horns where the blow hit. This was the first ded and paused for a second onslought. deer Jacob got. It was so old that the teeth Jacob mustering all the strength he could, were worn away to the gum.s, his age no

dealt a second blow with his stockless barrel doubt was the reason he would not run ofi. asjain between the homs. So terrible was the blow that the barrel bent like an elbow, JACOB'S WIFE LIZZIE IS STARTLED BY but the deer could not be afiected. The two THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A antagonists were now in close quarters and a BIG BUCK. hand to hand fight was inevitable. .lacob The new frame house stood on posts, the catching hold of a horn with one hand, cellar under it having been dug but not wall- caught and held fast to a front leg, the deer ed. The roof was on and the house so far to trving hook for some time. The deer los- done that Jacob, his wife Lizzie and their ing blood became exhausted and coming up first born baby boy were living in it. The against a small sapling leaned against it to forest between the house and the creek had rest and lost his balance by the tree giving been chopped down and the brush heaps not way and both fell to the ground, when Jacob burned, and the logs lying around profuselv taking hold of the knife thrust it into the on the opposite side of the creek when, half breed Indians were living by the name of fieid on the north, the woman following with "Ulches." One hundred yards to the north the rifle in hand. The deer having been pre- Abraham Klopfenstein was living in a log viously persued by hunters and hounds for house. It was a bright sunny, summer day. hours was so fatigued that it could not jump Jacob was away from home. The oxen were over the fence into the woods, but kept on cleared and fenced field pasturing in a newly running up and down with the hope of find- the north side oi the house. All around on ing an opening through which to escape, fol- Tiger, outside of this was standing timber. lowed by Tiger. The oxen too, took part in the dog, lay s'leeping in the cellar. I

—74- LIZZIE GETS AN AWFUL SCARE BY near Roseville. On the return, she, o.i foot THE MEETING OF A BEAR. and alone had to pass through and cross the bear trail. The sun had just disappeared There was an Indian trail that led along below the western horizon when Liz'ie, as the eastern side of the dam from the saw she hurried through the woods, heard a mill, where New Dundee is now situated, noise, and to her horror a huge black bear passing through a small clearing that was emerged from the thicket in front of made by a pioneer hunter who squated there her, and stopping on the trail looked at her and put up a shanty in which he lived alone for a while. The bear after having a good hunting and trapping for a living. This man look started on his way. The sight so affect- was surrounded by mj-stery. He went by the ed her that she stood motionless, not able name of "Squat Shaffer." He had a pecul- to make a sound or move, completely »m- iar appearance and lio one knew where he nerved. The few moments she passed in came from, nor wither he went, nor what be- agony seemed a long time. The path being came of him. The writer saw the man twice. clear the woman walked on trembingly. So The trail went through that opening which terrible was the shock to her nerves that she was ca'led 'Shaffers shanty field." On the was confined to her bed for six weeks. Lizzie north of it was a piece of bush. In that was often referred in later years to the howling of a bear trail which crossed the other and led numerous wolves at that time, which would to the dam on the one and on the other side come around in the night disturbing their to the Waterloo plains. It was here the Uc.ir peaceful slumbers. Bears would come and would go to the dam for water. Lizzie had carry off pigs. A big male hog one time been to visit friends by the name of An toner, [ought with a bear and succeeded in wound- ing him with his long sharp tusks, so that alas, the heft was too great; so while Jacob the bear, suffering pain left, but not until he went and got the stone boat Lizzie stayed had put over a dozen holes into the pig's and watthed the deer, and together they load- back. When the pig three days later, return- ed the deer and started for home rejoicing ed home, the holes were alive with maggots. over the prospect of more fine venison to help Lizzie pouring oil into the wounds and other- make out their dailv fare. The antlers of that wise caring for the patient succeeded in re- fine dear can be seen at the Bettschen Mus- storing it. eum at New Dundee.

JACOB AND HIS WIFE HAVE AN EX- JACOBS ENCOUNTER WITH WOLVES CITING DEER EXPERIENCE. AND FINANCIAL DISAPPOINTMENT.

Jacob, as a usually successful deer hunt- Jacob had also several experiences with er, had again brought down a fine specimen wolves. Leaving on one occasion, early in with his rifle, but being a miie or so from home the morning before sunrise, it being his cus- was turning the problem around in his mind tom to go early when hunting, before the how to get his prize home. He went home beasts of the woods had retired to safety, he to get his oxen and two wheeled cart, ask- came upon a pack of fourteen of these brutes, ing his wife to accompany him as he needed but luckilv they were feasting upon the carcas assistance in loading the game. She cheer- of a dead horse at the time and did not give fully went with him, but alas, difficulty was the hunter serious attention. The ravenous before them, as the deer was too heavy for animals were so intent upon their least ol dead even their combined strength. Jacob said to horse that they did not notice the approach his wife, "Now when I tug you tug toe," but of the hunter. He had heard the whistle of the blue jay which he knew was a sign of the exception of one which was partly hid by danger near at hand. There had been a fall brush. He fired but the animal escaped be- of snow of about six inches deep the night ing protected by the surrounding bush. Thus before. He cautiously crept up the side of a ended his financial calculation. About a week hiU. On top was a fallen tree behind which or ten days later he visited the same place he hid from view. Putting his hand on top and was horrified to see that the whole car- of the log and parting the snow about enough cas was gone, every particle, even the twigs. to look through he beheld the wolves at The wolves were so hungry that they gnawed some distance. He thrust the muzzle of his ofi every particle of growth and twigs to the

rifle through the apperture in the snow. ground where the horse lay. This was not

While holding his rifle in this position he very far from what is known as I'usKnch made a financial calculation. Before taking Lake, southeast of Hespeler.

aim he thought taxes are due to-morrow Difierent devices were resorted to in order amounting to twelve dollars and if I can to secure game such as wolf traps, licks, shoot two with one shot I will get five dol- bear traps and scaffolds. The latter was a lars each as bounty and one dollar each for coop fastened in the top of a bushv tree, the hides, making the amount required. where beasts had the habit of passing at the When he thought he had two in range he dawn of day before sunrise when the animals pulled the trigger. The cap went ofi but the returned to the more sheltered parts. The gun was not discharged. Putting more pow- hunter would hide himself in this place and der into the nipp'.e and placing on another shoot the beasts as they passed by. The cap he was about to aim again when to his writer had a small box containing four flat- surprise the whole pack had disappeared with tened rifle balls with which Jacob killed the

77— lar;jest black bear that is known to have been the small trees were cut close to the ground slain by a white man in that part of Canada. and thrown into heaps as far as the job was After the least was c'ead Jacob went home to extend. After that, during winter, the and got the oxen, hitched them into the trees were cut down, first the largest, then sleigh with only the floor on, and taking- with where a log heap was to be marie him h's two brothers Gottlieb and Gilgian, was cut down and nothing done to went to fetrh the monster. It was all the the trunk, the branches being cut three men could do to load the brute. They off and nicely piled into what we

dro' e to New Dundee where it was measured called a brush heap in order to insure a good and weighed. Its weight was four hundred fire. All the brush had to be put on from and fifty pounds. The writer was told by the same side. Then the smaller trees were Mr. John Miller, the fovmder of that town, cut and the tops put into heaps. Thus ended that he measured the neck, of the bear and it the first part oi the clearing process. No- was thirtv-two inches in circumference. The thing was done until about the first week in bear was taken home. The skin, after being June, when everything was very dry, and a tanned, was the winter sleigh robe. Lizzie fire was started on that side from where the rendered six gallon crocks full of bear greace. wind was blowing. In a short time the whole The head was buried near the first shanty on job was a blaze, everj- brush heap being ou the iarm. fire. A few days later the fourth stage was During winter Ja:ob was busy chopping started, viz., logging. A gang of four men, a down forest and in s immer what had been yoke of oxen, each man having an axe, three chopped was logged and cleaned. The pro- hand spikes, a logging chain and a pair of cess of cleaning was as fo'lows: In Autumn skids was all that was necessary excepting a whip and that often consisted of a long blue then drawn over and between the numerous beech switch. The largest logs were then stumps and the job was finished. If the job turned by the oxen toward the big tree and was done by some one else and he preferred after that smaller logs were brought with the to do it, he could with a cradle cut two oxen, the driver drawing them up near the swaths around the outside and have that for log heap would drive right out and bring one his pay. Great was the joy when the} could from the opposite side similar to the move- behold the golden sheaves standing thick be- ment of a weavers shuttle and so on. The tween the stumps at harvest time. Haying three otl er men rolled up the logs over the was done by hand, the grass cut with the skids during the time the teamster went af- hand sythe, the swaths spread with a fork, ter the ne.\t one. Thus a practical log heap the hay turned with a hand rake, then drawn had the heavy timber at the bottom and the together into winrows, then loaded onto farther up the lighter. Sixth, when the whole wagons and carts and taken to the log barn job was logged, a favorable time was watch- where it had to be pitched up by hand. All ed for when the log heap was fired the same this was hard work. The hope of a better fu- as the brush heap had been. After the burn- ture was the all inspiring centive and there ing there was a s:cond logging, all the re- was plenty of real pleasure mixed in with tha mains being gathered and placed upon the hard work. largest pieces. After this was burned the ash- The writer well remembers the many hap- es were shoveled up and scattered. py seasons he had when a boy in the days of

About the loth o1 September the fall pioneer life. Dozens of instances of real plea- wheat was sown by hand, and a harrow be- sure could be related if space and time wotild ing made of brush being tied together, was permit.

—79- Durinfr the first years Jacob mowed all way. At times the bristles were removed by the grass with a straight snathed scythe which scalding and at times by burning them ofi. was sharpened with a hammer, beating it on Jacob's first suit of clothes was made of tan- a flat tempered steel driven into a block. ned deer skins. Later on a few black and Many times did the writer witness the prim- white sheep were kept. In the latter part of ative way of sharpening a sythe. At four ilav they were washed and in ten or twelve o'clock in the morning the mowing was com- days after the wool was clipped ofi and then menced and continued until nine o'clock alter pulled apart bj' hand and mixed; at evenings which the other part of the work was done. it was carded and rolled in rolls with hand Cows were supplied with bells and let run cards. The rolls were then spun by in the woods which was a grand shelter from the girls bv wool-wheels or by the storms and cold, as well as heat in the sum- older women on smaller wheels, the mer. Thev fed on leaves and brouse m win- varn being divided into cuts by means of ter. There being no export for milk products a reel for that purpose, four of which made it was kept for family use. The swine run a skein of yarn. The yam was then taken to loose in the bush, living on beachnuts, acorns the weaver, there being hand looms used. and the like. In the autumn they were hunt- The cloth was then made into wearing appar- ed and brought home and butchered. Beach- el, for both man and woman. In some cases nuts made them fat which was very oily. In men wore buckskin pants and coats as well the winter slaughtered hogs were loaded on as mocca.sins instead of boots. Shoes were sleighs and taken to where they could be not common among men on account of the sold and traded for necessaries. The butcher- deep snow in winter. Many went without ing had to be done in the most primative shoes in summer. Lights were made by put-

-80- ting of oily hog fat into an earthen Tcsse] others and tied together so that the rain, with a smaU spout. Into the fat was put when entering at the top would run down at narrow strips of old cotton, the end project- the outside of the lower sheaves and not en-

ing over the spout. This vessel which they ter the inside. The shocks were then left for used to call "degel" was placed where the ten to fifteen da^-s according to the weather, fat was kept soft. The lighting was done and when done sweating and thoroughly dry with flint and steel and punk and then fine they were either taken into the log bam or split cedar. put up into a stack. The threshing was done

Religious services were held in houses and during the winter, first with the flail, then by barns and sometimes under trees. Every- tramping &nd later on by open cylinders. body walked and with bare feet, and in some In 1846 Jacob started from his home in gathered without the summer time men Wilmot to go to Switzerland for the purpose coats and even with sleeves rolled up. The of adjusting some family matters relative to grain was cut with cradles. Jacob used a the Klopfenstein family. The following year straight handled one. writer The saw a fam- he returned. It was then that the following ily cut all their grain with sickles, the par- incident occurred as told by the party himsell. ents cutting all dav in a stooped position. In the vear 1862 in December the writer was The older children did the binding and stooking travelling through parts of the U. S. A. and and the ."^mailer children took care of the when at Gallon, Ohio, he heard of a certain baby which was kept under an open umbrella. man living some lour miles out ot town, whose The grain was bound by hand and stood up name seemed familiar. The writer went to eight sheaves together, two were turned see and visit the party and it turned out to with the heads down, spread all over the be the Stowaway of whom he had heard be- fore. He was married, had three sons and a ed out and taken up on deck. The count re- farm and was well-to-do. When told who the vealed that there was one more passenger on visitJor was he manifested great joy and said board than was paid for. Suspicion at once he knew Jacob Bettschen in Canaaa well. fell upon me. I was bound with chains and After walking over the farm and through the placed on deck. All the passengers had to home they sat down to dinner, the father at appear and form a circle. The captain stand- the one end, the mother at the other end, the ing in front of me, read the law, 'ship regul- writer in front and the three boys on the op- ation.' The pilot ship lay at anchor. A short posite side. After prayer he began by say- distance awav a small boat with a half a ing, pointing to the first: "This is Henry, dozen men all in uniform came on deck and and this is and the third is .lacob. when the captain was through reading, they

I named him in honor of your father." The took me, a bound boy, regardless of the tears glistened in his eyes when lie satd, "'be- pleading and weeping of my dear mother and cause he saved me." Still continuing he the begging of my father. Just then a well said, "In 1847 when I came from the OM dressed, pleasant looking man stepped for-

Country with my parents, then a boy, we ward and said, I will pav for the boy if you were on a sailing ship which had started will take him along. The necessary money from Havre, France to sail to New York. was paid and 1 was loosened from my chains

All tlie passengers were required to come on and restored to my parents who with me deck to te counted. I, not feeling well, in- were overjoyed. The sentence was that the stead of going up, crept into a corner and boy must be taken back to France and im- hid myself. The cabins were diligently prisoned for a term, as punishment for the searched bv the stewards. I was found, pull- ofience and in all probability would not have been able to come to America and maybe pole fitted. On that pole were hung* as many never again see my parents, had it not been wooden hooks as there were kettles with the for the generous heart and kind act of your crotch at the upper end fitting upon the father. Many other kind acts could be writ- pole. A nick at the lower end heiti the bow ten which were done by him, but time and of the kettle. At the back was placed a big space do not permit. log, and at the front a smaller one, and the fire made under and aronntl tlve keltic. The A PROMINENT PART OF PIONEER WORK trunk o£ a pine tree was hollowed out and WAS SUGAR MAKING. placed behind the camp to store the sap in. The first thing to do was to make Jacob being of inventive mind, placed a small troughs, pine, basswood, or blackash irom trough along the rear of the kettle which he eighteen to twenty inches in diameter; then kept full of sap and by means of small cut into blocks two and one-half feet long. troughs the sap was conveyed to the kettles. These were split through the centre paralel The weather had to be studied closely in or- with the cut, and with the axe hollowed out. der to know when to tap, as the sap does These were placed by the tree into which the not alwa\ s run. When it did begin to run a sap dropped from the end of an in.serted nick was made with the axe below which the spout. iron guage was driven into the tree, taken Spouts were made of pine or cedar, a out and a wooden spout put in its place, guage made by a blacksmith of iron with a over which the sap would run and drop into half round sharj) Ijit wa,s used to split the the troughs. The sap was then carried to spouts out of blocks sixteen inches long. the camp, a yoke was made out of basswood These spouts wire then sharpened with the which fitted around the neck and shoulders, jack knife. The next was to make a sugar with a wooden hook fastened to the end of camp. A long stiff pole was placed against the yoke on each side. With basswood hook two trees supported by strong posts having holding a pail on each side, the sap was a crotch at the upper end onto which the gathered. Generally the snow was two feet deep on an average and it was a real hard- the clarification done. It was then boiled un- ship to get through it. A trail was tramp- til ready to take ofi. The exact time for ed out and through it the carrier walked. A taking it ofi was determined in this way: A good run would take a day and the follow- twig was taken; the small end formed ing night to reduce it to syrup. The follow- into an eye about three-quarter inch in dia- ing day the svrup was then sugared off. In meter, dipped into the boiling sugar and order to do that a wonden crane was fast- blown at. If the syrup blasted by the blow- ened to a trte. .-\t the bottom a hole was ing it was not vet ready, but as soon as it bored into a root from which the top had blew out, forming a .string resembling the first bten cut away. At the top the upper casing used for stufiing sausage, it was end of the upright ])iece of the crane was ready. Or a piece of snow was taken, a few fastened to the tree with basswood bark. drops of the hot sugar dropped on it, and ii

The kettle was hung to the end and it broke when cold it was ready, but as long could be swung to and from the fire, as it bent without breaking it had to re- so that when the boiling molasses begun to main over the fire. Three kinds of sugar were come up the kettle could be drawn off the fire made, the usual cake, the fine and the per- s;mplv dipped out in- and the boiling mass would go down, other- forated. The cake was left until cold. The fine was wise it would have run over and been lost. to pans and Before starting the fire a few eggs were beat- stirred and rubbed until cold and the perfora- en into a quart of milk and this was stirred ted was left to drain and not as hard boiled into the svrup. As soon as the syrup be- as the other. By f^r the sweetest and most came heated the dust would accumulate at aromatic tasting sugar was made out of sap the top and was then skimmed off. Thus was gathered in February. March and April also made good sugar but later in the season the also for the first murder committed among taste was flat. The hard maple was best for the white people in the district The murder- tapping. The writer remembers many exper- er was apprehended at Haysyille and the iences in connection with sugar making in his charge of murdering a child and concealing boyhood days. its remains under a culvert. Jacob Bettschen arrested this man single handed and on foot conyeyed him to the Hamilton jail, a dis- JACOB'S OFFICIAL CAREER. tance of about forty-fiye miles. The greater

As a business man and farmer his repu- portion of the distance was through dense tation for honesty won for him positions of forest. public trust and responsibility. He was the also the first magistrate. first tax collector appointed in this section. Jacob was He In the early days institutions for the safe de- held that office tyitil his death and was gen- squire such posit of money were remote from the stt de- erally known as Bettschen. As ments and as a consequence when he return- official, he was noted for his zeal in promot- ed late in the eyening with the results Irom ing harmony among those of his neighbors his collections during the day he would pull who came before him to settle their disputes out the large wooden pins in logs of the by legal measures. He was also one of the cabin which were used for hanging up clothes first councillors, long before Wilmot was a put the money in the holes and replace the municipality. It was then kn'own as a part pins. He was the first man appointed con- of Wellington district. For a period of eight stable on this district, and while acting in years he went on horseback to attend the that capacity made the first arrest. It was regular session at Guelph. When Wilmot was made a township he When the toast master gave a toast they was made its first Reeve, and for years after cheered the Queen. The little fellow also was a member of fhat board. He was the raised his glass, shouting, "Hip! Hurr- first man in the neighborhood or township ah!" for the Queen, thereby drawing the at- to advocate and establish a public library. tention and admiration of the whole stafi. At that lime the township hall was located .Tacob was also the originator of the at Wilmot Centre. He was also one of the building of the St. Jacob Church of New original directors of the Wilmot Township Dundee, Ont. He was the man who secured Agricultural Society, the shows being then the lot on which the church stood. He do- held at Wilmot Centre. Conspicuous features nated thirty-seven pieces of hewn timber, in his character were kindness and generos- which he with his own hands dressed and ity towards those soliciting his assistance. hewed, towards the building of the church. He wai also appointed by the Command- He was the president and secretary of the ing General of Canada to enroll and muster first church board. The church was named in a company of the township to be the Wil- St. .Tacobs, his name being Jacob. mot Township Militia, of which he was ap- BIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM KLOPFEN- pointed Captain, their first training being STEIN, JR. held at Haysville, Ont., then Upper Canada. About the year 1848 the music was rend- Abraham Klopfenstein, Jr. was a son of ered by the New Dundee Brass band of which Abraham Klopfenstein and his mother Su- the writer, a boy not yet eight years old, sanna Rueter, who was a daughter of Jonas was a member. While eating dinner the boy Rueter, Amtsstatthalter (Mayor) of Fruet- was seated at the table with the officers. igen, Canton Bern, Switzerland, a good hon-

— 86- and honorable man. They lived in the Oey, up two hundred acres, one hundred for five minutes' walk from the Reybruegg in a Johannes and one hundred for Abraham, his south-easterly direction. Here he was born two sons. John located on his one hundred Oct. 25, i8i2. In 1827 the house burned acres, but Abraham did not like the pioneer down in the night. Alter the fire the boy life composed of so many hardships and priv- was missed and no one having seen him, it ations, and suddenly disappeared. A few was believed he had perished in the flames. years later the father moved from Canada to The parents had already lamented the loss of the State of Ohio in Gabon, where he again their boy when, later on, the following day, purchased a lot for Abraham, thinking the it turned out that he, panic stricken, with prodigal son would surely turn up some nothing but a shirt on had jumped out time, when a'l of a sudden he received a let- throus:h the window at the rear and ran to ter stating that a man with that natne was Fruetigen and hid in his grandfather's barn lying sick in a house on the shore of the Ohio until hunger drove him from his obscurity. river, giving the whereabouts. The father at He catne to Canada with his father, and in once started for the lost son, and after con- 1828 the family located in the dense forest on siderable difficulty found the place, a small lot five, second concession, block "A," Town- house on the river. After staying some time ship Wilmot, district of Wellington, now with the patient, the father returned home, County of Waterloo, then known as Upper Abraham having first promised he would as Canada. soon as able came home to his father at Gal-

As far as is known they were the second ion, Ohio. A letter written by the father di- family that emmigrated from that part of rectly after Ins return, addresied to .Jacob the old country to America. The father took Bettschen his son-in-l.iw in Canada, setting forth the particulars, is still in the posses- lost man for the lot of land which the lather sion of the ^Titer of this narrative. had purchased for him before the father's Alas! Abraham never appeared. Instead death. The purchaser's name was Johannes of complying with his iather's wishes he gave Klopfenstein, who, by the wav, contracted a way to his wild inclinations and again went severe cold while on the boat during the on board a steamboat (Ben Franklin) where night going from Bufialo to Cleveland on his he had been before his .'^ickness and serving way home, and a few days after he died. as fireman, went with the boat down the AH, DAUGHTER river to St. Louis, and other southern points. BIOGRAPHY OF SUSAN .TACOB AND HIS For upwards of half a century Abraham OF BETTSCHEN WIFE ELIZABETH. remained a mj'stery, when a man claiming to have been a. passenger on the same boat Susannah, daughter of Jacob and Eliza- where Abraham was fireman was found, who beth Bettschen, was born May 30, 1837, on had been slightly scalded, said the boat was the old homtstead in the township of Wilmot, racing with another boat, and in order to in- County of Waterloo. She lived with her par- crease the steam oil and other inflammables ents on the old home until the age of nine- were thrown into the fire when the boiler ex- teen when she was married to Conrad Millar, ploded blowing a number of those on board son of Abel and Elizabeth Millar, also of Wil- into the air, among which was the fireman. mot, on Sept. 21, 1856. They lived at Peters- Thus was solved the long standing mystery. burg, Ont., later mo\ing to New Dundee, and

The writer remembers the time when an still later to Sebringville, Ont., on a farm. uncle' of Abraham ca.me to Canada to get the The husband's health failing, they again mov- de«d signed by the brother and sister of the ed to the neighborhood of New Dundee, Ont., ^1 I"!

where the husband died at the age ol twenty- the respect of all who knew her, and often

eight years. After that, Susannah lived in a did she think of it in long years afterward, cottage on her father's farm for two years, how well she was repaid to mind that good

and then she moved to Hamilton, and later advice. As she left a three and a half years' to Bufialo where she resided eight years, lat- service of her girlhood days her mistress er moving to Olean, N. Y., where she died on said, "Isabella, I would trust you with any-

Oct. 8, 1896 and was buried in the Pleasant thing, for in all this time you have never

Vailey cemetery near Olean. She was a good told me a lie, nor have I missed a pin's

nurse in the sick room and had fine musical worth." When in her married life her chil- talent, drawing forth music from all kinds of dren came to her, she tried to bring them up musical instruments. to be honest, true and faithful men and wo- men and never will she forget the grief she BIOGRAPHY OF ISABELLA MILLER felt on one occasion on her twelfth birthday. BECKER, DAUGHTER OF SUSANNAH About a week before her grandfather said to BETTSCHEN MILLER. her, "Xow Isabella, if you are a good girl Isabella was born in Petersburg, Out., on vou can have a birthday party and grand-

July 25, 1857. In her childhood, whenever mother will make some cakes for your possible, she was a constant companion of partv." Instead of a party it was a da\- of her grandfather, Jacob Bettschen who was, grief and mourning, for in the middle of the to her mind an ideal grandfather, always night her grandfather had died.

ready with advice to help her out in her Shortly after her marriage, on Jan. 25, childish difficulties. He told her to always be 1874, she, with her husband, Jacob M. Beck- honest and truthful and she would command er of New Dundee, Ont., moved to Baden, Ont., where he carried on a wagon making the ICrie train. Edward was the lirst put business for several years. In 1885 she, with on duty being stationed with musket on the her family, moved to the United States to platform of the car as guard. That was one Richburg, X. Y., where her husband was em- of the greatest days seen in Olean, N. Y. ployed in an oil lease, that being an oil After having been moved from camp to camp county- In 1888 thev moved to Olean, X. Y. they were ordered to the Philipine Islands, where they still reside. Isabella is a jTom- but prominent citizens and the Governor of inent member of the Ladies' of the Maccabees the State took it in hand and finallv had of the World being a great worker in that them furloughed to come home in September order, and was awarded a gold medal from and in October 1898 they were honorably dis- headquarters with an appropriate inscription charged but re-enlisted and formed the Span- for having faithfully discharged the duties of ish American war veterans. A year later he comanander for ten or more years, she having was married to C. A. White, daughter of L,. served in that capacity for fifteen years. She A. White and wife of Ceres, N. Y. He is at is also a member of the Woman's Relief present engaged in the lumbering business. Corps Xo. 56, of Olean, N. Y., and is Sen. Vice Pres., and Chairman of the Auditing BIOGRAPHY OF CLARA, DAUGHTER OF ISABELLA BECKER. Committee. Her eldest son, Edward, joined the 43 Sep. Co., 3 Regiment, Xew York vol- Clara was born July 13, 1878 at St. unteers in 1897, and in 1898 when the Span- Agatha, Ont., and later with her parents ish American war broke out he marched moved to Olean, X. Y. In Get. 1903 she was away with the boys on May ist, 1898. When married to Frederick Vollmer of Olean, N. Y. the 13 Sep. Co. marched away and boarded who is at the time of this writing on the police force of Olean, N. Y. She, like her he got his engineer papers he was the young- grandmother and great grandmother has fine est engineer in the employ of the Penn.syhan- musical talent. In the spring of 1907 her ;a Railroad Co., having made rapid strides in husband had a house boat built sixty-two gaining that end. On Oct i, 1908 he was very seriously hurt in a railroad wreck. Since feet long by sixteen feet wide, with six rooms then he has been unable to follow that oc- and on April the 2nd they started on down cupation. He was married to Katherine Karl the river towards Pittsburg, a large crowd of Allegany, N. Y., on Oct. 22nd, 1904. Two watching the start, as that was the first daughters have been born to them. boat of anj- size to go down the river for many vears. Her sister Annetta joined them MARY HANNAH, SECOND DAUGHTER on their trip, they staging on the river at OF SUSANNAH BETTSCHEN MILLER.

different points, finally on the Ohio river and Mary Hannah was born in Wilmot, Ont.,

came home two weeks before Christmas from May 23, 1859 and was married to A. J Bow- their trip down the old Allegany river, and ser of Olean, N. Y. Two daughters and one manv were the interesting incidents they re- son were bom to them. The son died at the lated about their trip. age of nine months. The two daughters live at Beitter, Pa., with their father. Mary H., HERBERT, THE SECOND SOX OK ISA- after the death of her boy grieved and BELLA BECKER. mourned his loss, and not having a very ro- Herbert, the .second son of Isabella Beck- bust and strong constitution, her health fail- er, after assisting his father at farming until ed and she died at the age of forty years, nearly grown up took to railroading as fire- and was laid to rest in the Pleasant Valley man, and later as engineer. At the time that cemetery near Olean, N. Y. BIOGRAPHY OF GOTTLIEB BETTSCHEX, ceive even a moderate education, Gottlieb THE COMPILER OF THIS WORK. struggled on with the rest.

As soon as he was able and far from lit Gottlieb, son of Jacob and Elizabeth to work, his father bought him a yoke o' small Bettschen, was born on the 3rd of September oxen. With them Gottlieb did all kirds of 1841 in the town of Preston, Ont., on the work among the stumps and in the newly cut Grand River, (then called Upper Canada) jobs during the summer. In winter the wood where his father Jacob had carried on the necessarv for home use was brought home by watchmaking business for four years. \\ ht-n Gottlieb and his stags, as they were called.

Gottlieb was six months old the family uiov- -All that was necessary was the yoke that ed back to Wilmot, taking with them the was put on, a logging chain fastened to the baby, a feeble child, on the farm one mile voke, an axe and a whip made out of a stnail north of the present town of New Dindce, thin tree. The trees were cut so that the south half of lot six, second concession, o.xen could draw them over the snow to the block "A," township Wihnot, County of back of the house where they were cut into Waterloo, Ont., Canada. There Gottlieb was proper lengths, split and carried in to dry raised surrounded by a forest, sharing all the and to be used in the fire place. Everything hardships and privations and roughness inci- was done by hand, that was done from Jan. dent to pioneer life. The family being poor, 1st to Dec. 31st, the boy taking part in no money being in circulation, far from the evervthing. market, bad, crooked, almost impass.i'ule Having a great desire to learn and ob- roads, leading mostly thi'ough woods, with tain useful knowledge and not being able to hardly any livestock, with no chance to re- get to a school, he started when quite young

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BETTSCHENS ADJUSTABLE CULTIVATORS Invented, patented and built by C,. Bettschen

A wood frame All iron and steel, ready for working ready to work corn or hard ground. potatoes at hilling- time.

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These improvements are patented both in Canada and the United States

Scores of prizes were awarded at the agricultural fairs.

All iron and steel, ready to cultivate turnips on the

drills.

All steel and iron, readv for all Llndv

to study nights. His fathtr having good ed- years plived the trj-angles, while the band ucation for that time assisted him, and at headed the company in the initiation march. the age of ten he was able to solve problems The f>-Uowing year, 1849, the training in arithmetic that baffled many older and took place at Wilmot Centre, when the band bigger boys who were enjoying public school- again played with a drummer nine years old. ing. Reading and writing was also acquired At twelve years of age Gottlieb manifested at home, during noon hours while the teams his musical talent and mechanical genious by were eating their dinner, or while the mid- trading a meerschaum pipe on a worthless night heated lard or bear fat was burning. fiddle which he took apart, made the top

By the time he was twenty-one years old he thinner, put it together and in a few months

had gathered by incessant study and unwaver- played upon it both in private and in pub-

ing diligence better education that most boys lic. When twenty-one years of age he was of that age who had gone to school many unable to do any work and was sufiering years, although he had been to school only with what was said to be consumption, and six months one winter and twelve days an- was ordered by the doctor to take open air other winter. exercise by walking every day. He did so by In 1848 the father mustered the first canvassing for nursery stock. company of militia in the township, having Having a desire to become a merchant first received orders from the commanding he looked for a situation but could not find General, the organizing taking place at Hays- any, as the merchantile business was at a

ville, Ont. The first brass band of New Dun- low ebb just then. He finally got a. place dee was in attendance. Gottlieb was a mem- where he could act as clerk. The corditions ber of this band and at the age of seven were that he was to pay his board and get

—93— nothing for his labor. This was endured for well as open deportment, he gained lor him- about six months when he concluded he self friends wherever he went. During winter would take a trip through some parts of the he took orders for a spring delivery and United States. He did so. When the money erafting. In spring as soon as the deliveries was all spent he worked for some more, then were made, he grafted, and after that he travelling farther, going through parts of seven worked in haying and harvest, thus usmg the different states. He returned to Canada well time to the best advantage.

sati.sfied with his native country. This was About this time he commenced studying in the time of the terrible contest between the Holy Bible. In 1866 he married a lady the north and the south. Many startling in- from Nottinghamshire, England. She was an cidents could be related of which he was amiable and smart, afiectionate wife and an either an eve witness or a party. Some were excellent housekeeper. About that time he hard and cruel, while others were character- purchased a piece of land at Lake View, near ized with kindness. It was djiring this trip Zurick, Hav Township, along Lake Huron in the that he met the stowaway referred to where it was supposed a harbor would be Biography of Jacob Bettschen. built later on. The land was bought from a During the period from 1862 to 1867 he Mr. Solomon Bauman. Here Mr. Bettschen was engaged in grafting, pruning, and selling intended starting a nursery, a place favorable trees, mostly in the western part of Ontario. for fruit raising, being under the influence of In this he was reasonably successful, having the lake breeze. At the same time he rented had the principles of honesty and fair deal- an acre of land from his father for which he ing inculcated in his earliest boyhood by his paid five dollars annually as rent. It was an parents and being of a jovial disposition as unused stony piece, back of the bam. Here rhe writer cuttiiifj oat,.

he started a vineyard and a nursery on a They commenced house keeping in the vil- small scale, preparatory to a nursery on a lage of Xew Dimdee with very little. On the larger scale in Hay. The plan was to raise 2,^rd of July, 1869 his father, Jacob Bettsch- small stock and then transplant it and thus en suddenly died. This changed everything. gain time and have stock for sale sooner The father executor in various estates, had a when in Hay. The grape enterprise was a saw mill, besides working the farm. With success, he becoming the pioneer in grape his death many things became necessary. It growing in that part of Canada. Up to that was obvious that the whole weight of busi- time it was believed by the public that sweet ness with its difficulties would fall upon the grapes could not be raised there and only shoulders of Gottlieb. He faced it manfully. sour grapes were found. Mr. Bettschen in- The two brothers being younger and troduced the Concord and Deleware, and 3'et single, it was deemed expedient for the proved to the public by his success that best of the estate for him to move on the sweet deliiious grapes could be grown for farm and rent it. The farm was in poor con- table use, as well as for wine making. This dition and there was much to do. Although vinery was the cause of this home being there were executors, it fell upon GotLlieb to called ''Vineyard Farm," which name it settle the most difficult matters. One year bears to the present da^-. It was during that later Hercules died in the state of Indiana. It time that he wrote the pamphlet entil- fell upon (Tottlieb to go there, take upon him- ed, "A concise treatise on the culture, pro- self all the responsibility to have his brother pogating and maintaining of the grapes as buried honorably paying all debts. Many im- well as the making of wine." This is the first provements were made on the farm. In a printed work written by Gottlieb Bettschen. few years the farm was in good cultivation, stocked with good livestock and implements. ly died. This changed everything. Gottlieb A new system of farming was introduced was then living at New Dundee where he ex- which pro\'ed to be a success. The culture of pected to start a grocery store. The young- rutabe.sra was found to be a grand thing for er brothers Fred and Hercides, being single stock and Gottlieb started to grow tliem on did not care to run tie farm. Hence it was a larger scale than was the custom, but he decided by the family and executors that found a diflSculty, viz., there was no cultiva- Gottlieb move on and rvm it. There was tor that could be used to advantage. Those much to settle. David Bettschen's estate of in use were no good and gave poor so tisfac- which Jacob had been the acting executor, tion. Gottlieb at once began to build a was not vet wound up. Jacob had done the scuffler to suit his judgment, the consequence business for the Christian Bettschen estate in was that he invented, built, and introduced Illinois. Hercules also having died made it the famous sculHer known as "Hettschen ad- exceedingly difficult for the executors to set- justable corn and root cultivator." This im- tle. Although they put forth herculian efforts plement did more and better work thau any to bring about a general settlement foi the other on the market. For this combination space of three years, doing what they could, of new implements Jlr. Bettschen was grant- when it became obvious that unless a settle- ed a number of patents both in Canada and ment would be arrived at the whole matter in the United States, of which models may would go into chancery. The executors real- be seen at Ottawa, Canada, and Washington, izing their precarious position acknowledged D.C. Dozens of premiums were awarded this that they were at a loss to know what to implement at all exhibitions where shown. do and handed all books and papers to Gott-

On .Tulv 23, 1869 Jacob Bettschen sudden- lieb, telling him to do the best he could. He with courage, forethought and good judg- Gottlieb was that no transaction was finish- ment peculiar to himself, although reluctant- ed without first consulting his wife, Mary, ly, undertook the supposed impossible task who was allowed to have a say in every- with lots of debts to pay. He with the aid thing. About that time a gigantic specula- of his excellent wife worked on the farm iu tion was started in the township called the day time and at night he worked at the Bohemian oat speculation, in which many estate matters. Thus in three years with un- farmers lost heavily. Gottlieb escaped losing abated perseverance and the loss of three bv adhering to the principle of honesty which months a year, he was successful in unravel- he was taught when a small boy, by his fa- ing the most difficult problems of long stand- ther. When he was asked to join the com- ing, as well as tracing out various accounts, pany operating the speculation he asked, "Is so that finally the whole afiair was settled it an honest undertaking?" When told that it to the satisfaction of all concerned as far as was not exactly honest, but speculative he is known. manfuUv declined to have anything to do

During 1872 he began to work in church with it. and Sabbath School devoting much time to In A. D. 1876 when the great Centenial Christian work. Especially did he exercise Exhibition was being held in Philadelphia activity in the promotion of that most im- Marv, his wife, advised him to go. He went portant part of Christian duty not only and attended this great fair. working in the church of his choice but go- A. D. 1880, he in company with a few ing and helping everywhere in promoting the others started and helped to promote the Sunday School cause. Farmers' Institute of the south riding of the A peculiar feature of the household of County of Waterloo, and writing articles as well as speaking publicly in favor of raising fications. The whole building was construct- the standard of farming to a higher plain. ed with the greatest care, Mr. Bettschen be- For many years he was a director of that or- ing present from the start to the finish, ganization. working hard. This building gave the village In A. D. iS the barn was enlarged to a great lift. Ever since its erection it has d!ouble its capacity and the .stables were been utilized as drvgoods, grocery and hard- greatly improved; made healthier and hand- ware stores. The following 3'ear a large ad-

ier so as to shelter twice as much stock as dition was added to it. The whole edifice re- before. In 1887 Bettschens' .Tubilee Block quired about three hundred loads of stone, was built. This was Queen Victoria's 50th one hundred and forty loads of sand, over anniversary of her reign and a great jubilee fifteen thousand bricks, eleven hundred bush- was celebrated throughout the British Em- els of lime, besides many thousand feet of pire. lumber. Mr. Bcttschen, after consulting wife and In 1888 at six o'clock, p. m. Mr. Bettsi'.h- family, purchased several lots on the east en was suddenly taken very ill with a heaic side of Front street in the village of New stroke brought on by exposure, over-exertion Dundee, Ont., and finding that the street was and over study. At first it was thought he very narrow staked the place for the block, was poisoned and was not expected to live setting the stakes back twelve feet, giving as he was perfectly helpless for some time. the public the benefit of that space and never However, with the excellent care of his wife asked the council for a cent of remuneration. and the help of Dr. Miller who was at hand He took a leading part in the work, making in fifteen minutes, he gradually but slowly his own plans as well as drawing the speci- recovered, and soon was again on the stage ':^0^^^^ H I Jillli 'i\S'V\

Bettschen's Block, Front Street, New Duiulce, Ontario. Built 1887 bv G. Bettschen.

Mcud..« Scent- r)ii Vineyard I'urni. The vvritei unuma his herd ..t

of active life. On the 25th of May ol ihe ings, from the Patriarchal period to the Pro- same year his aged mother died, and the es- phetical and on through the dark days of the tate matters were attended to with the ut- apogrvphical times to the advent of the Sec- most integrity, settling everj-thing and wind- ond Adam in the fulness of time, and the ful- ing up the estate in a short time. In the fdment of the promises, the Garden of Geth- same year he built an addition to the block, semane and the cross. This required a con- making it a large, handy and first class centration of the mind and mental faculties, building. that he could not endure and the work had

!ilr. Bettschen was a breeder of thorough- just been completed, the canvas rolled to- bred sheep, shorthorns and cattle for many gether, when on the 28th day of May, 1897, years. He was a member of the Dominion at 5 a. ni., a vein in the brain gave way and Short Horn Association, his name appearing he became imconscious. It happened while in in many places in the short horn herd books bed where he was found by his di>ughter of the Dominion of Canada. During the years .\lice, and her mother Mary, a few minutes

1894, 95) 96, besides running the farm and at- later. Telling the Doctor, the wife said, "I tending to other matters, he drew a Bible had been in the stable milking when Alice chart, a record of twenty-five years of study of called me. When I got up stairs he lay in Hebrew History. This great chart was calcula- bed just like a corpse, white and motionless, ted for Sabbath school work. Starting in showing no signs of life. I started to jerk the garden of Eden with the first Adam, fol- him and call him, when he opened his eyes a lowing generation after generation, and book little. I kept on till the Doctor came. He after book from the first page of Genesis had forgotten everything." For nine days and through all the history with all its belong- nights his most devoted wife and his true friend Mr. John Staler stood by him con- ing an empty stomach and having been a total stantly keeping his head covered with ice, abstainer for so many years, and getting ill the lower extremities covered with hot water in bed, it being warm kept the blood from and hot bricks, administering no food, only becoming cold and thick until outside assis- epsom salts in milk and water, keeping both tance helped the circulation to be resumed. doors and windows open continualU Dr. Six weeks after when it was possible for him Rat/, was in attendance. During the hot sea- with the aid of two sticks to get out into son of the summer a bed was placed between the yard it seemed to him as if he h.id been two opposite doors in the kitchen, this being away from home twenty years. the only place in the house where it was pos- In 1896, Mr. Bettschen with his wife made sible for him to get sufficient air to keep a tour through some of the northern States. from fainting. For the benefit of the readers This was undertaken partlj' to visit friends, a few words of explanation as to the cause of and partly to search for particulars neces- apoplexy are added here: ICxcess of any kind sary for this work, the Family Tree. They may bring on a stroke. In this case it was started on the tenth of June and went to excessive study. In order to prevent a stroke Hamilton where they were kindly received by the lower part of the body should be kept the Von Guntens and Schroeders. From warm and the head cool; absolute moderate there they went to Bufialo, visited the Rev.

living in all things is a preventative. Ac- Byron Staufier who was then preaching in cording to the medical records the stroke that city. Mr. StauSer had been, when a caused by the ruptured vein in the head is boy, a scholar in Mr. Bettschen's class in the fatal ninety-nine cases out of a hundied. In United Brethren church in Xew Dundee, Ont. this case the patient had the benefit of hav- From there they went to Olean, N. Y., visit- \'iiic\ari.l .inn 1 Ap|iif pH-king scene, the writer gathering apples from trees of hi^ own raising ; New Dundee, Out.

ing the Becker and Bowser families. After matta against a vulture (Lamer Geier) going to Rock City and other places they which had come down from the mountains went to Aliance, Ohio, where are living a to secure food. It was here they heard o£ a number of the Klopfenstein families as well farmer named Von Gunten. The two Bett- as Mr. Samuel Waller. After spending some schens went to Beaver Dam and called upon eight days they went to New Philadelphia, the farmer who turned out to be the one Kanal, Dover and Tuscaravas County look- who had many years previous disappeared ing for relatives. Theu they went to Maslen from his home in Switzerland and not been and Gallon, where the Klopfensteins are heard of and counted as dead. He emmigra- numerous. Then they went to Sulphur ted from La-Shodevong to America and was Springs and to Burcyrus, and from there to married and raised a family. One of his the westefti part of the state to Lima, and daughters was so religious that she went to west Cairo. It was there they found and India as a missionary in connection with the made the acquaintance of a Mr. Bettschen, Presbyterian church. the first and only person with that In the Presbyterian church paper of 1908 name known so far on this American side of an account is given of Miss Von Gunten. the Atlantic that is not a direct descendant After having been ver^' ChristianUke enter- of David Bettschen the pioneer who landed tained by Mr. John Bettschen and wife they at New York in 1825. He is the youngest started for Toledo, Detroit and Ontario son of the adjutant Bettschen of Kien, who where they arrived on the farm was in his day the most prominent military after a six weeks' tour. man in that part of the country. When a When in 1900 a Township Sabbath School boy, he defended himself with a hav fork in a Assocation was organized, Mr. Bettschen with others was appointed visiting committee. ganized a public library in the town ol New This appointment he faithfully discharged, Dundee, Ont., to which he was appointed jfoing to every place of worship in the town- president, devoting much time, care and

ship and annually assisting in the organiza- monev to it. The library has been one of tion and carrying on of Sunday Schools by the best kept among the rural libraries in giving advice as well as helping persoaaiU', the province. A splendid collection ol books always ready to do whatever there was to is kept in good otder. ^o other room be- do. In this he was specially successtul ioUow- ing available, a room was given by him in ing it for ten years. Some days only one the Jubilee Block so tar rent Iree. All that

school could be attended while some days two has been done in this case is for the benefit or even three were visited, thus about seven- of the public in town and country. teen Sundays were required to finish an an- nual round through the whole township. In 1906 Sir. Bettschen gave up farming, and with his wife moved from the old Vine- It was during this time he wrote a his- yard farm to New Dundee, Ont., and in tory of the Sabbath School work in the March purchased the dwelling on the comer township of Wilmot from its start. This of Main and Front streets. During th.it year record is, however in manuscript form, the new home was improved. In 1910, Mr. among his papers, ready tor publication. Bettschen accompanied by his wife took a Previous to this he made use ol black- trip to the Xorth-west. Landing at Winnipeg board illustrations, his own work in the New then going two hundred miles in a northeast- Dundee U. B. Church, for ten years, being ob- erly direction, visited friends, homesteads ject lesson teaching. In 1900, Mr. Bettschen and Indians. From there they travelled in a with the aid of R. S. Futher and others or- southerly direction passing Nepawa and Car-

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Resilience of Guttlieb Bcttsclicn, curner Main Street anJ Front vStreet, Ncu Dundee, Ontario.

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Rz bery, to Brandon, where they were kindly re- Farmers Co-operative Company, Mr. Bet- ceived by the Adolph Family. Then they tschen being the main promoter in securing went by oi Sauris Osacre, way to Saskatch- this paying business for the town. During ewan to Mr. John Kilty, a bosom friend of the summer of 1909, although not very well, Mr. Bettschen. After several days' stay they he took an extensive trip to Europe which went" by Wijy of Regina, Medicine Hat, to Lai- has been the topic of conversation in gary, thence to the Rocky Mountains. W nile m many places. It was undertaken partly to get the Banff the wife be^an to lose strength so they needed to make a hastened on their homeward journey. The geneolo.gical information complete record of the Bettschen family and good wife getting weaker medical aid was partly to get better acquainted with the birth summoned, but nothing could be done for places and forefathers in the her, and on the 17th of May, 1908, after a homes of the Old Country, as well as to search the ar- painful lingering illness she died and was bur- chives church family Bi- ied in the Xew Dundee cemetery. By her and books, examine bles, old legal documents, inscriptions on death Mr. Bettschen lost a true wife, plea- tomb stones, also inscriptions on buildings sant and active companion; one who was al- that were built centuries ago. ways ready to do her part in every emer- gency. Whether in health or sickness, pros- He lirst went to Hamilton, Ont., then to perity or adversity, she was a faithfui stand- Rochester, X. Y., then to New York City, by. In order to show his love and apprecia- then across the deep Atlantic on a Cunard tion he had a beautiful monument erected, a Liner to Liverpool, then to London, then via. facsimile of it being found in this volume. In Diep to Roang, to Paris, then via Xeuchatel, the spring of 1909 a creamery was built in to Bern, Switzerland; then via Thun to the the town of New Dundee, carried on by a Berneroberland, in Frutig Thaal. I visited every person and place and ob- In 1 910 Mr. Bettschen went to New York tained much interesting information, since City, and after a brief stay came back to assis- that is the original home of the Bettschens. Olean, N. Y., where he with the able of neice Mrs. Isabella Becker, near- Here they had lived for centuries past and tance his , ly completed the Family Tree. from here they emmigrated to other parts of the world. Besides I went through the Simen HISTORICAL SKETCH OF DAVID BETT- Thaal, Walls Thaal, St. Gothart Thaal, and SCHEN, SAWMILLER. many other Thaals, ascending high moun- tains, crossing glistening glaciers, visiting in He is a descendant of Johannes Bettsch- David Bettschen, Bergluerer, all fourteen cantons. I next went to Italy, en, a brother of generation. was born visiting Bellinsona, Giaso Volcano, and Mil- and belongs to "E" He and brought up at Aaris, and is now ano. Again passing through the simplon, I (1909), living at Kien, close to the bridge across crossed Switzerland and went to Mauheim, the Kiena bach. He is about forty-five then to Frankfort, A. M., then to Castle, }-ears of age, married and has a family of Hanover and Berlin. From there I went to three boys and four girls. The oldest daugh- Essen and Antwerben, where I went on board ter is married. David, the oldest son is also after stormy the steamship Laplance, and a married and is living near the old home. The voyage of nine days landed in New York, second son is single and running the saw mill from where I hastened to Rochester, Buffalo, for his father, which is right above the Hamilton and then home. For a detailed ac- bridge. Hans, the youngest son, does the count of interesting incidents see the book en- teaming. Maria is a big healthy looking titled, "My Trip to Europe." lady of twenty-two years. Kmma, a beauti- '^^ifi^-

Vineyard : Farm The Imme of Edwin B. Hallman and Alice Bettschen, his wife, as it appeared 19111 ; New Dvnulee, Ont.

David Bettschen, s:nvniiller. fnini Kien, and his three sons upon a high Alp—above timber limit- among goats pasturing near an old stable.

ful pirl of seventeen, is at home. The young- on the north shore of the lliunner t)ee (sea)

est, a girl of ten years is also at home. The Three hundred and twentv went up with the father is a shrewd business man and n-ell to electric Bergbau to the top of the "berg" on

do. It is not likely that there is another the borth of Interlaken. man in the whole Kien Thaal that knows the He also went along up in a south-easter- country and sceneries better than he. ly direction from Interlaken to Lauterbrun- David has many relatives living in that nen, ('ClearsprLng), where the water falls over section. Gottfried Bettschen lives near the a precipice, the rocks being so high that the round, steep, high hUl, situated in a dense water forms a mist by the time it reaches Thannen wald and contains walls out of the bottom and for this reason is called which, through an opening, the writer got an Staubbach, (Dustcreek). From there he ac- old bone presumablj- from, a human being. companied the writer up a higher v' taiiv Tradition has lost the particulars of these on an electric Bergbau, zigzag, to the much ruins. talked of "Sheideck," (parting corner.) itien Gottfried has a large family. Peter with a still higher electric Bergbau up to Bettschen, an old but hearty man, and his the "Eis-Meer," (ice ocean) on the beautiful wife are livmsj in the Bettschen home where Yungfrau glacier. He also went along to the that name has been for centuries. Da\-id Grindel Wald, (Zwei Loetchmnen.) was the man who took the writer up the David also guided the writer up through rugged Kander Thaal and into the bleak, pre- the picturesque Kien Thaal, over a landslide, cipicious and narrow Gastem Thaal and row- half way up and from there, stiU larther up ed the boat over the "Blau See," (Blue to the end of the Thaal, where tremendous Lake). He escorted the writer into the lofty perpendicular rocks encircle the mysterious "Biatus Hoehle," in the "Iserg" end of the Thaal. We then went to the rle.\eu Kessel, (witch pot), the Diindenfall, Pochten- BIOGRAPHY OF CHARLES LOUIS fall and through the Gries Alps pass, (Gravel VON GUNTEN Alp), where the rocks at one place are only Charles Louis von Gunten, was the second ten feet apart. son of John von Gunten, sr. , and was born in The indefatigable Swiss pressed his waj' Switzerland in 1833. When 17 years of age still farther up as far as the tourist Pension the family moved and emigrated to America. at the timter limit. He and a niece of his Alter a short residence in the United States, were along when the writer discovered the where the subject ot this sketch learned the double Glacier Muelle Alp in the blue rock English language in the night schools, French, belt between the adventurer's Summer Hotel, German and Italian being the different built by Christ Bettschen of Thun, on the Gries Alp, and the Hotuersii Club Uuette languages spoken by the family quitefiuen tly. among the icy rocks. He was also present When about 17 the family moved over into later on when the writer engaged Peter Canada, settling in Gait and Preston, where Mueller, Gottlieb Schluchter and Gottfried his talent as a musician was recognized, and a Bettschen, three strong Bergmenner to exca- prominent position as soloist in the Gait band vate and investigate the hither unknown took him to many of the gatherings in the Gletchn Mills. district. While at the Rockton (Worlds) fair David also led the writer into the dense in 1856, he met his life time partner in the the forest surrounds the almost unknown which person of Miss Mary S. Garrock, daughter of and terrible "Pochten Schlucht," a cave in one of Beverly townships prominent farmers. the mountam easterly ot tUe upper end ol Three son's were born to Mr. Mrs. L. von Kien Thaal; assisted him down the daugei ous & C. descent to the foot of the .seventh iiiii i.ist Gunten. John J. in Gait 1857, Charles Louis ladder and up again. in Belleville 1860, and Alex H. in St. Marys Charles L. von Gunten, wife and family, Blenheim, Kent Co., Ontario.

1862, in all of which places the family resided. his education in theory. .\ practical every day In 1871 the family moved to Hamilton, and experience, brushing up against the world at

after seven years residence in the ambitious city large, fitted him for his sphere in life. Follow- again moved to Chatham, Kent County. As a ing the profession of his father he soon watchmaker and jeweler in which profession he branched out for himself, and in 1879 with but

was engaged, he had no peer and but few a very limited capital, began life as a jeweler equals, splendid businesses being established in the then village, now town of Blenheim, in these several places. As the result of an success crowned his efforts and soon a fine operation in the hospital, he passed suddenly block and large busieess was created. Taking away in his 61st year, leaving behind besides a a life partner in the person of Miss S. A. loving family a very large circle of warm Clemens, daughter of M. Clemens of Waterloo friends, to sincerely mourn his loss. At the County. Three daughters, Mary Rhea, now time of his death a long editorial appeared in Mrs. D. F. Hall of Chicago, Lizzie Evelyn of the leading paper, setting forth the many New York—a vice-superintendant of one of the qualities of the deceased. Being of a geniel leading hospitals, Clarice Louie attending and peaceful disposition he made friends Toronto University, and one son Carl Frederick wherever he went. of the school of Practical Science, Toronto, Charles L. von Gutiten, the name sake, and were born. All are fine musicians and keep second son of the above was born in Belleville, the Yon Gunten reputation as such well to the on 21st April, 1860, shortly afterwards the front. The town, township, and county of family moved to St. Marys, where his young Kent, has honored the subject of our sketch boyhood and initial education was had. In with many prominent municipal positions, 1871, the family moved to Hamilton where two being Councillor, Reeve, and Warden of this years study in the old Central School finished fine county.

—107— AX IXTERESTING IXCIDENT IX COX- the writer in his boyhood days was very well XECTIOX WITH MAGDALEXA, SIS- acquainted. This man, after his escape from TER OF JOHX VOX OrXTEX, Sr. Paris, went home to Switzerland and later

emigrated to Canada locating on Lot 7, first (sen.) had a sis- JOHAX VOX GUXTEX con. Block A. township Wilmot, District of Magdalena, who was married to a Mon- ter Wellington, Province of Upper Canada, now sieur Mauseman. They moved from SigrisviUe County Waterloo, Province Ontario and Do- in Switzerland to Paris in France, where they minion of Canada. He was a bosom friend of the Imperial Palace. lived forty 3'ears near .Tacob Bettschen the father of the writer. So There she became intimately acquainted with intense was their friendship that it was be- a lady who was a chamber maid of Queen lieved by many they were brothers- Marie Antoinette. Both Mrs. Mauseman and Mr. Adolph often spoke of the awful car- the chamber maid were present and witnessed nage and blood shed that took place at first the terrible slaujrhter that took place in that in the principal streets of the city but finally city during the bloody revolution of 1837, if ended in the gardens adjacent to the Tuilaries hundreds best and wealthiest which of the to where the body guard retreated before the citizens belonging to the nobility were execut- furious assailants and where they after a the ghastly guilotine. ed, beheaded with heroic resistance, were completely destroyed. guard, regi- The Imperial body a splendid The Imperial family were taken prisoners, of Swiss volunteers totallj' ani- ment was conveyed to the champ elyses and there be- known, only one, escaped hi,ated. As far as headed with the pitiless guilotine, the beauti- by the name of Henry Adolph from Henzog- ful and most amiable Queen sharing the same buxy, Canten Bern, Switzerland, with whom fate as the rest. The writer well remembers seeing the Mauseman, who, after her husband's decease, crystal tears glisten in, the eyes of Mr. Adolph several years later emigrated to America, when speaking of the terrible events and when coming to Hamilton in upper Canada. She lived with her brother telling the miraculous way bv which he es- John Von Gunten on James Street caped out of the seething mass of humanity. where he carries on a jeweler and watchmaking business. WTiile in that citv in 1909 the writer, in It was there the writer met Dante tompanv of a guide, visited the old Palace as she was called by the and the gardens, the column Vandome that Von Gunten's, at the time when the Provinc- marks the spot where the BastOa (prison) ial Fair was held in that city. The Prince of Wales, stood which was stormed and utterly de- afterwards King Edward VII, being stroyed by the infuriated mob, the spot where a visitor that time in Canada attended the fair. the awful guilotine did its murderous w-ork, Dante was a small, handsome woman. on the open parade near the government Her manners and deportment were exceeding- ouildings, now marked by a high monument ly pleasant indicative of refinement which she with its inscriptions. These places with their acquired bv coming into contact with Paris- history are intensely interesting. ian gentr\-. It was while in Hamilton she After the revolution when tranquility pre- gave her niece Magdalena Von Gunten a piece vailed, the Royal Palace was overhauled and of the yellow sUk from Paris, who in turn repaired the yellow silk that embellished the gave it to the writer to add to his collection ceilings in the Queen's chambers was torn of curios together with its down and replaced with other material. The history where it is chamber maid in memory of her beloved preserved. On July 2nd 1907 the above in- Queen took off the silk and as a token of es- formation was given by Magdalena (Mede) teem gave a piece to her dear friend, Mrs. herself to the writer at New Dundee, Ont. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF TIIK on both sides. The house which they built in BRUKGGER BRANCH. 1777 was stiU standing in good repair in 1909. It is like Koby's on the hill (see picture) solid basement and storey. Four JACOB known as "ALT. KILCHMEY- a stone 1% inch plank joined, with five windows in the ER" Bruegger, bom about 1737, was mar- roof projecting eight feet ried to ELSBETH KUENTZI. They li^'ed in front gabel end, the all around covered with three feet long pine the Kandergnind, (that is the valley through 2-x.\ scantling which the turbulent Kander stream comes shingles laid four thicknesses down, about four miles from the Reybruigg, laid crosswise 4 feet apart, upon which there ten minutes walk from the "Reichen Hotel," are flat stones of 80 to 100 lbs. weight 8 feet inch on the north side of the road, about five apart. The floors are made of 2 planks minutes walk from the STEGGBACH. which from 2 to 3 feet wide. The first stove is still in the house. rusheS|down from the "Giesz Alp" where the It is stone, 3x6 ft. top 14 inches high. The slabs are inches thick, in Bruegger's keep their cattle in summer. 4 the middle of the house and keeps the whole "Hove" is the name of the home. It con- house warm. In the front gabel end is cut sists of about 5 acres of hilly ground covered into the plabks in ornamental letters the fol- with many large stones and small tannen lowing. trees. In the front it joins the Kandersteg By interpretation, Built by Jacob Brueg- road, while at the rear can be heard the roar- ger and Elsbet'h Kuentzie his wife, in 1777. ing of the Kander as it dashes against the He is a church deacon and Anthoni Zuercher rocks. The locality is called "Mitholtz" and Susana Zaller his wife. (Middle wood) and is closed in bv mountains God's goodness protect us. /^^t>72rt,i9_,tyt/l^^ ,^M4/u/ J/i/l4^^^U^ /vD^'^W^^-

The above is cut out in the front gable end of the house at Mitholtz, in Kandergnmd, where Elsbeth Bnieggcr, wife of David Bettschen, watchmaker, was raised.

Robbi Bnie^^er's home in the K-aiuleri^rur.il on the left of tlie Randerstej^ road iip on the boertly half a mile up on the first plateau. The path that leads to it round and about is about one mile or over. It is a typical bergher's mountain-house. Kobbi, his wife, two sons, a niece, and the writer are grouped together. This is the first picture any of them had taken, and was taken for this work.

. , i.Mariiill.i > ,M,iu-v uilh it^ i-..vfi. K...l.l>i, Im> "Ik- the tvvo bovs iSaiiHiel and Cimifrich. il» .1 tnc ,.i^^^ taken for this work in 19U9.

On one of JOHANES also may have gone to Am- Brickers that settled in the state of Pennsyl- erica. It is the opinion of the writer that vania and of whom some have emigrated to they were some of the forefathers of the Canada, and who have for the sake of con- Bricker's now living in Canada. venience changed the spelling of the name

GILGIAN was the father among the rest from the original "Bruegger" to "Bricker."' of the most esteemable Elsie Bruegger who SUSANA was the daughter of Elsie and was the wife of a Mr. Gruenig and later mar- her first husband Mr. Gruenig. She, like her ried a Mr. Schmidt. She is the mother of a mother, was an exemplary woman. She was large and influential posterity. married to Christian Stoller, a man of m:ore ANTONI called Antie, was born 1799, the than ordinarv ability. He was entrusted father of Kobbie on the hill. He was a bos- with many offices and highly esteemed. They om friend of Jacob Bettschen father of the raised a large and well behaved family. writer. The Bruegger's are mostly a quiet Father and mother have both gone to where and religious people, undoubtedlv were the thev receive the reward of their labors. Bern, the Capitol city. The Oherlaeiuler Berfj.

A pcirtion of Neuohaetel town, M-a, and Alp-

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Old Chapel at Kandcrsteg.

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SchloSS TIH--1H.-M1>W1^ .^^ ll .1|||H-.U^ il..l\. .\i.liiilii; njl ,i muii.'Vl .! .'..lu, ilMi.i i. t..|. wl l,,v hill, surrounded by trees. In lyuv, the writer visited and examined the ruins of the place where the flower gardens had been surrounded by walls, and the dungeon below. The departments in the main building can yet be traced. How strong this castle was built can be imagined when we find some of the walls 9 feet thick. Could they speak, what tales of horror they could relate. The compiler got this picture for this work, and can be seen standing in the field between the R. R. trestle work and the camera used for this photo.

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S 3^ Credit is due, and we are thankful to the New York State Department of Health for this invaluahle descriptive and pictorial information re- garding this malady and which we add to this work hy tlieir kind permission. "j^';v<'j

:>^^ M i^^m Escutcheon (Wappen) of the Bettschen Family