Carver County MN Archives Obituaries.....Diethelm, Charles "Carl" March 20, 1901
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Weekly Valley Herald 04/04/1901 
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE CARL DIETHELM 

Carl Deithelm was born on January 21, 1821, at Altendorph, Canton Schwytz, 
Switzerland, and married Elizabeth Fessler, on January 13, 1850. He emigrated 
to America in 1854, first settling at Dubuque, Iowa, but moved the same fall 
to Carver County and settled on the old homestead in Laketown.
 
In 1876, he took a trip to the Pacific coast, and spent three years in 
California, Washington and Oregon, working at the carpenter trade. He also 
spent the year 1887 on the coast. Some twenty years ago he took a claim in Big 
Stone County and lived there for five years. The rest of his life he spent on 
the homestead in Laketown, where he died on Wednesday March 20, 1901.
 
The funeral took place on Saturday, March 23, from the Catholic church at 
Victoria and was largely attended. May He Rest in Peace.

Additional Comments:
Family birth records show DOB as 1/15/1823 & place of birth as Galgenen, 
Canton Schwyz, Switzerland.  

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