Table of Contents
An
Emmel
Chronicle
by
Aetna
Emmel
Olson,
Elizabeth
Ann
Olson
Hill,
Winston
Wright
Hill
Stories
and
pictures
chronicling
the
Emmel
family
history.
Figures
How This Book Came to Be
Aid for Humanity: The Emmel Heritage in Germany
Germany When The Emmels Lived There: 1610 - 1842
The Family Home in Germany
An Emmel Family Ghost Story
Families Reach America
The Emmels, 1842
The Hösli, Bäbler and Hefti Families Trek from Switzerland to Wisconsin, 1845
From Switzerland to the Netherlands, April 15 – May 2, 1845
From the Netherlands to Baltimore, May 13-June 30
From Baltimore to Pittsburgh, July 2-10, 1845
Pittsburgh to St. Louis, July 11-27
The Reconnaissance Crew Travels to New Glarus, July 27-August 7
Emigrants Arrive in New Glarus
New Glarus
Some Families Move from New Glarus, Wisconsin to Coal Creek, Kansas
The Stauffers and Giesys Enter the Scene
The Pine Tree Counterpane
The Giesys Accept the Emmels … but Reject the Roeblings
Mary Ann Stauffer’s Beau
John A. Roebling and Helena Giesy II
More About the Emmels and Stauffers in Dorseyville
The Conrad Emmels Leave Pennsylvania
On the Banks of the Delaware River in Kansas, 1865 - 1885
The Conrad Emmel Family
The Peter Meyer Family
The Markus Hefty Family
The Henry and Samuel Hoesly Families
The Conrad Emmel Family Settles in Kansas
Peter and Elizabeth Ann Vesper Meyer
Love Comes to Coal Creek
The Mill on the Delaware
Charles and Margaret
Charles and Margaret
Oregon Beckons the John Emmels
Back in Coal Creek with Charles and Margaret
Troubled Times
The Heftys Venture West – and Return
Kansas Ain’t Heaven
News from Coal Creek
Oregon
Welcome to Oregon – 1896
The C. C. Emmels Settle in Oregon
The Old Toll Road
A Letter Edged in Black
The First Robin Leaves the Nest
This and That in the Blue House – January 1896-1902
Christmas Memories
Charles the Photographer
Dark Days and Bright Ones at the Blue House and Mt. View
Mary Ann Emmel and Son Wesley Move to Oregon
From the Blue House to Maple View Farm, 1902
Maple View Farm 1902-1918
“A Heap o’ Living”
Uncle Wesley Emmel
More about Life at Maple View Farm
Some Hobbies of Charles Emmel
A Purveyor of Wares
Charles Emmel, Neighborhood and Family Chronicler
The Postal Service at Scholls
Other Scenes Near Scholls
The Horseless Carriage Comes to Scholls
Oregon Celebrates the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, 1905
The Emmels Begin New Families
Miss Lewis
And Then Those Weddings
Wedding Bells Ring for Nora and Fred
More Emmels Leave Maple View
The Emmel Clan Becomes “The Robins”
Across the Queen’s Great Pond
Maple View and world War I - 1914-1918
The Seventy-third Annual Commencement at Willamette University
Wednesday Morning, June 13, 1917
Esther Emmel and Alpheus Gillette Are Married
The Family of John Conrad Emmel
Goodbye to Maple View, Hello World – 1918 to 1927
The Long Romance of Aetna Emmel and Zenas Olson
The C. C. Emmels Move Again
A Wedding in the John Emmel Family
Virtuous Women and Machines
Shadows in Salem
The Family of Charles Emmel in the 1920’s and Beyond
The Older Children
The Younger Children
1924: Charles Christian Emmel Alone Now
Charles Christian Emmel’s Trips, 1924 and 1926
The Olsons Return from India
Turbulent Times, 1927 - 1935
Aetna and Zenas
Victor Emanuel Emmel
Nora and Fred Thompson
Mary and George Forbes
Cascadia, A Reminiscence
Dream Lodge
Adventures of David and Stuart
The End of the Idyll
The Wedding of Wilford Emmel and Lillian Paige
The Quilting Bee
Cousin John Emmel
Charles Visits Daughter Esther
Life’s Journeys End but the Emmel Legacy Continues
Charles Christian Emmel, 1853 – 1935
Margaretha Hoesly Emmel: “Aunt Margaret”
The Tortured Road to a Divorce
The Telephone Rings
The Telephone Rings Again, and Again
Stanley Theodore “Ted” Emmel, 1902-1940
The Years Take Their Toll
The Thompsons
Roy Emmel
Winfield Emmel
Mary Emmel Forbes
Herald Wesley Emmel
Emma Emmel Hurt and Minetta Emmel Moore
Aetna Emmel Olson
Nora Emmel Thompson Forbes
Esther Emmel Gilette
The Emmel Legacy
Be Transformed by the Renewal of Your Mind
Do Not Be Conformed To This World
Contribute to the Needs of Others
Use Your Gifts
Present Your Body to God
Have a Sense of Humor
Bibliography
Index
