Dallas County AlArchives Biographies.....Schweizer, J. L. August 10 1845 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    J. L. SCHWEIZER, practical watchmaker and jeweler, at Selma, Ala., was born
in Switzerland, August 10, 1845. He received a liberal education in his native
land, and, after serving an apprenticeship at the watchmaker's and jeweler's
trade, under the most skillful masters, traveled through Switzerland as a
journeyman. In 1866, he went to Paris, France, and remained there during that
and the next year. In 1868, he landed in New York city, and going almost
directly to St. Louis, worked in that city at his trade for one year. In the
fall of 1869, he landed in Selma, Ala., where for two years he worked as a
journeyman, and in the fall of 1871, with but a limited capital, he established
a business of his own. By means of his practical business qualifications and
skilled workmanship, he has succeeded finely in his business, and his store, at
No. 1005 Broad street, Selma, may be found a model jewelry establishment,
perfect in its arrangements, and stocked with a full line of watches, clocks,
silverware, diamonds, etc., unsurpassed in value, fullness and design, by any
other establishment in the state. Mr. Schweizer has accumulated considerable
property, and has thought it advisable to deal extensively in real estate,
buying and improving several valuable pieces of property. While he has never
aspired to political honors, or office, yet he had been elected to the city
council, holding the position a few months and then resigning. He is a member of
the Knights of Pythias, of the Odd Fellows, of the Odd Fellows' encampment, of
the Masonic fraternity, being a chapter Mason; of the Legion of Honor, of the
American Union, and of the order of Elks. In the fall of 1872, he married Miss
Helen Keipp, who died in 1889, leaving him four children. Mr. Schweizer is one
of the substantial business men and highly esteemed citizens of Selma, and has
done much to advance the material interests of the place.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 916
Published by
Brant & Fuller (1893)
Madison, WI

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