When Friedrich Aegerter was born on 26 December 1849, in Münsingen, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Johannes Aegerter, was 36 and his mother, Anna Berger, was 33. He married Katharina Lehmann on 24 October 1874, in Bern, Bern, Switzerland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States for about 10 years and Cache, Utah, United States in 1920. He died on 27 November 1931, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Montpelier, Bear Lake, Idaho, United States.
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Swiss German and South German (rarely Ägerter): topographic name from an agent derivative of Middle High German egerte ‘fallow land’. This surname is also found in France.
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