Stähli family
Stähli (Stahly), a Mennonite family of Swiss descent. Heini Stähli, of Seehof, then belonging to the Catholic bishopric of Basel, Switzerland, was imprisoned in 1622 because of his Mennonite convictions. After 1670 some Stählis moved to the Palatinate, Germany, and among the Swiss emigrants moving to the Netherlands in 1711 there was a Jacob Stähly (born circa1676), of Hilterfingen in the area of Thun. His son Jacob Stähly was an elder of the Swiss congregation at Kampen, Holland, in 1736-57. The Stählis usually belonged to the Amish branch. Apparently the first of this family to emigrate to America were the brothers Johann and Jakob Stähli, of the Palatinate, who went to Ohio in 1829, and ten years later to Elkhart, Indiana.
Bibliography
Gratz, Delbert L. Bernese Anabaptists and their American descendants. Goshen, IN: Mennonite Historical Society, 1953. Reprinted Elverson, PA: Old Springfield Shoppe, 1994.
Müller, Ernst. Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1972: 312.
| Author(s) | Nanne van der Zijpp |
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| Date Published | 1959 |
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van der Zijpp, Nanne. (1959). Stähli family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 April 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=St%C3%A4hli_family&oldid=68392.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 609. All rights reserved.
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