Samuel WILD

Male3 July 1831–

Brief Life History of Samuel

When Samuel WILD was born on 3 July 1831, in Holderbank, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Bernhard WILD, was 43 and his mother, Maria LIENDARD or LEUTHARD, was 38.

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Family Time Line

Bernhard WILD
1787–1859
Maria LIENDARD or LEUTHARD
1792–1879
Elisabeth WILD
1816–1880
Rosina Wild
1824–1893
Daniel WILD
1818–1866
Anna WILD
1819–
Verena WILD
1822–
Susanna WILD
1826–
Maria WILD
1827–1848
Samuel WILD
1831–
Jakob WILD
1836–1884

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Siblings (9)

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World Events (3)

1848

Age 17

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.

1848

Age 17

Made capital 1848

1863

Age 32

Jean Henru Dunant founded the Red Cross in Geneva.

Name Meaning

English: from Middle English wilde ‘wild, violent’ (Old English wilde), hence a nickname for a man of violent and undisciplined character, or a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of overgrown uncultivated land (from Middle English wilde (noun) ‘wild place, wasteland’).

English: variant of Wile , with excrescent -d.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): cognate of 1 above, from Middle High German wilde, wilt, German wild ‘wild’, also used in the sense ‘strange, foreign’, and therefore in some cases a nickname for an incomer.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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