Julius Billeter

Brief Life History of Julius

When Julius Billeter was born on 14 October 1869, in Igis, Graubünden, Switzerland, his father, Julius Billeter Sr, was 26 and his mother, Barbara Zweifel, was 26. He married Marie Emilie Wilker on 24 June 1891, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 9 July 1957, in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, at the age of 87, and was buried in Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.

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Family Time Line

Julius Billeter
1869–1957
Marie Emilie Wilker
1873–1951
Marriage: 24 June 1891
Aurelia Emily Billeter
1892–1956
Beatrice Adeline Billeter
1895–1898
Julius Caesar Billeter
1903–1986
William Tell Billeter
1904–1979
Oskar Arnold Billeter
1909–1980

Sources (39)

  • Julius Billeter, Jr, "United States, Census, 1920"
  • Julius Billeter Junior, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Julius Billeter, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1890

Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt.

Swiss German: habitational name for someone from Bilten (formerly Biliton) in the canton Glarus.

German: occupational name for a military quartermaster from French billet, here ‘certificate or voucher’ (held by soldiers to be given lodgings), a loanword dating back to the Thirty Years War.

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

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Ulrich Stauffer and Julius Billeter - 100 Years Ago by Arola Bott McDonald

The booth for Switzerland at the World Conference on Records held at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City in August 1980 was the setting for probably the most unexpected of all the experiences I had at t …

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