Eighteenth Century Migration of Swiss Mennonites to America

Authors

Leo Schelbert

Keywords

Lectures, Immigration, Swiss Americans

Abstract

You all know Professor Schelbert's unique familiarity with Swiss emigration history from his earlier publications and lectures. Here he treats a subject of particular interest to us, i.e. the history of a significant group of immigrants from Switzerland driven out of their home country by religious motivations to a new continent in which they were allowed to live according to their religious convictions and where , by their genuinely honest way of life, they have made a lasting contribution to the development of that idealistic touch in the American character upon which much of our hope for a more peaceful future of mankind relies. (enclosure 1)

Recommended Citation

Schelbert, Leo (1968) "Eighteenth Century Migration of Swiss Mennonites to America," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 4: Iss. 2, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol4/iss2/3