Heinrich Lienhard
Johann Heinrich Lienhard was a Swiss immigrant to the United States. He left Switzerland at the age of 21. His reminiscences for the years 1822 to 1850 are an important historical source re California Trail and Sutters Fort in California from 1846 to 1850.
Johann Heinrich Lienhard was born onJanuary 1822 in Switzerland at the hamlet Ussbhl near Bilten, Canton Glarus. He spent his childhood and youth together with his three siblings on the farm of his parents. Knowing that several of his cousins had emigrated to America, his childhood dream of following their example came true when he left Switzerland in 1843 and traveled to New Switzerland, later Highland, in Illinois.
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