Swiss American Historical Society Review Volume 40 Number 2 Article 5 6-2004 Adelrich Steinach's Portrait of the Ohio Swiss Adelrich Steinach Leo Schelbert Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review Part of the European History Commons, and the European Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Steinach, Adelrich and Schelbert, Leo (2004) "Adelrich Steinach's Portrait of the Ohio Swiss," Swiss American Historical Society Review: Vol. 40 : No. 2 , Article 5. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_review/vol40/iss2/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swiss American Historical Society Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. Steinach and Schelbert: Portrait of the Ohio Swiss ADELRICH STEINACH' s PORTRAIT OF THE omo SWISS The writer Raumer 1 calls Ohio "queen, wonder of the West" because its fertility surpasses that of the Nile delta and also because of its beauty .... Germans were the first settlers of Ohio and Swiss liked to live among them .... Cincinnati The first mayor of Cincinnati, from 1802 to 1804, was the German David Ziegler, 2 a fellow soldier of the Generals Lafayette and De Kalb. 3 Yet his authority extended only to 800 citizens whereas now Cincinnati has about 280,000 inhabitants, among them 80,000 foreign-born, but only about 1500 Swiss. The first larger numbers of settlers from Germany came in 1812 to Cincinnati. They were mostly Wtirttembergers and Swiss. Their church was St.