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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in Johann Conrad Schweizer's Notes on My Life Manuscript, #3651-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from James P. Harland of the University of North Carolina, July 1962.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Autobiographies--Southern States.
• Farmers--United States--History--19th century.
• Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Immigrants--United States--History--19th century.
• Knoxville (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Merchants--United States--History--19th century.
• Migration, Internal--United States--History--19th century.
• Saint Louis (Mo.)--Social life and customs.
• Schweizer, Johann Conrad, b. 1812.
• Swiss Americans--History--19th century.
• Teachers--United States--History--19th century.
• Tell City (Ind.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Tennessee--Social life and customs.

Johann Conrad Schweizer (born 1812) was a Swiss immigrant to the United States who worked as a farmer, teacher, and shopkeeper in Tennesse, Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, and Indiana.

The collection includes a typescript copy of autobiographical notes, diary entries, and copies of letters (circa 1812-1863), under the title, "Notes on My Life," by Johann Conrad Schweizer, chiefly concerning his struggles to make a living as a farmer, teacher, and shopkeeper in Knoxville, Roane County, and other places in Tennessee and in Georgia, Alabama, St. Louis, Mo., and Tell City, Ind.