When Henrietta Elmire Dorothea Aeschlimann was born on 14 October 1806, in Langnau im Emmental, Bern, Switzerland, her father, Daniel Aeschlimann, was 28 and her mother, Marie Henriette Thiébaud, was 26.
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New Federal Constitution combining elements of the U.S. constitution (Federal State with central and cantonal (state) governments and parliaments) and of French revolutionary tradition. The Principles of this constitution are still valid today.
Made capital 1848
Switzerland organizes Red Cross units during World War I.
Americanized form of Swiss German Aeschlimann: topographic name for someone who lived near a (small) ash tree or ash wood, from Esche (Old High German asc) ‘ash’ + the diminutive suffix -li + -mann ‘man’, or perhaps a derivative of Öschli, a pet form of a vernacular form of the personal name Oswald . Compare Aschliman , Eschliman , Eshelman , and Eshleman .
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