The Swiss Settlement of Vevay, Indiana: The settlers, their relatives, their associates
Niklaus HOTTINGER (ID #I3878)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: first martyr of the protestant reformation in Switzerland
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- +Hans HOTTINGER (dates unknown)
Encountering Huldreich Zwingli, humanist and Swiss reformer, he joined the protestant religion. In 1523, after having ripped out and destroyed a large crucifix, he was banished and took refuge in Baden. He was arrested, condemned to deaty, and decapitated on the town square in March, 1524. The was thus the first martyr of the Swiss protestant reformation.
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Jean Conrad HOTTINGUER (ID #I3795)
(male)
- TITLES/'DIT' NAMES/OCCUPATIONS: Régent de la Banque de France, baron
- BIRTH: 15 FEB 1764, Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- DEATH: 12 SEP 1841, Boissy-St.-Léger, Val-de-Marne, France
Father: Johann Rodolf HOTTINGER (dates unknown)
Mother: Barbara STOCKAR (dates unknown)
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Martha Eliza REDWOOD (dates unknown)
- MARRIAGE: 24 AUG 1793, London, England
- Jean Henri HOTTINGUER (b. 25 JAN 1803, d. 01 MAR 1866)
Baptised as Hans Konrad, but he took the name Jean Conrad during his adult life, spent mostly in Paris. During the Terreur in France, 1793, he traveled to the United States, and stayed there about three years, though this version of events conflicts with his reported marriage in London in 1793. His interest in Swiss and French business ventures in America is mentioned in many sources. Reference not yet examined: M. Gérard, Messieurs Hottinguer, banquiers ŕ Paris (1968).
_Hans Rudolf HOTTINGER _+
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_Johannes HOTTINGER _|
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_Johann Rodolf HOTTINGER _|
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|--Jean Conrad HOTTINGUER
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William P. HOUSTON (ID #I4828)
(male)
- BIRTH: 18 DEC 1836, IL
- DEATH: 1927, Brown Co., Illinois
- BURIAL: Benville Cem, Buckhorn Tp, Brown Co, IL
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Elizabeth A. MYERS (b. 11 DEC 1831, d. 6 MAR 1916)
- MARRIAGE: 22 JAN 1852, Brown Co., Illinois
Middle initial could be T., as given in transcribed cemetery record, or P., as given in transcribed marriage record. The 1870 census has George and Mary Houston living with the family, presumably William's parents.
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