Notes for Jacob Walliker: Jacob joined the Dutch Army in January 1815 and deserted in 1818 and seeked refuge with his sister, Anna Magdalena Walliker who lived in Laufhorn, near Munich, Germany.
Jacob and Anna Walliker came from Bavaria in about 1832 to the United States via the port of New Orleans. They came up to St. Louis and then to Beardtown, Illinois for 2 years. In 1835 they settled in Muscatine, Iowa and were one of the first white families to settle in Muscatine other than a trader who traded with the Indians. They lived in Muscatine, Iowa for twenty years, then went to Clinton, Iowa and built the second house in Clinton and remained there seven years. They then went to Princeville, Illinois and purchased a farm near Princeville and both passed away on this farm. Jacob Walliker was a stone mason, brick layer and plasterer and also an architect and draftsman by profession. He changed his profession to farmer when he purchased the farm in Muscatine, Iowa.
HISTORICAL (written by Jacob Henry Walliker)
No, our ancestors did not come to America in the Mayflower; neither did they come to Jamestown, Virginia, with the colony under the leadership of John Smith. They did not come to escape persecution in their own countries; nor to force their particular notions upon others. They took no part in boring Quaker tongues with the world, but probably the poorest. They came because of the better opportunities existing in America at the time of their emigration. Being land hundry, they emigrated to a country where there was plenty of land to be had. Our male ancestor came from the land of William Tell and Arnold Winkelreid, Switzerland. His ancestors were feuratories of the Habsberts, later corruped into Hapsburgs - the ruling family of the austrian empire. In the year 1302 the cantons of Uri, Schwitz and Waldens (Ober and Uter) formed a confederation for mutual defense; and promulgated their declarations of independence; thus antedating that of the American colonies by four hundred and seventy-four years. In 1304 the canton which our father was born declared it's independence of the Jabsbcanton for generations before that date. It had been said "that the Swiss soldiers were the best soldiers in the world'; for like the squirrel shoters of Kentucky and Tennessee, who whipped the Brittish at New Orleans, January 8, 1815, they were all sharpshooters. Now please remember that it is not I who is telling you this. Duruy, the French historian says, "Switzerland had founded, and assured it's independence over against Austria and the empire by three battles - - Morgarten, Sempach and Nafels, in which a handful of peasants had heroically defeated large feudal armies". In 1439 invited by Frederck III, of Austria, to give assistance against them. Charles VII, king of France, sent fourteen thousand Frenchman, and eight thousand English, Scotch, Brabant, Spanish and Italian mercinaries, and with them as general lissimo the dauphin Louis. The terrible bands reached the Jura and entered Switzerland. The Swiss, who were beseiging Zurich, sent only two thousand of their troops to reconnoiter the enemy. These rashly ignoring the strength of the opposing force, threw themselves upon them and were slain to a man. The dauphin conceived so high as esteem for men who fought so well, that he advanced no further and made a treaty of alliance with the Swiss." Duruy further says of Charles, duke of Burgandy; "Soon after this, in mid-winter, and with an exhausted army, he crossed the Jura, intending to subdue the Swiss, who had just been ravaging all the Franche-Comte. These free peasants were the best soldiers in the world, but Charles utterly despised them. Attacking the little town of Granson, he in order to indue the garrison to surrender, promised them their lives, then, when they had surrendered, he had them hanged. All Switzerland was aroused at the news of the perfidy. The confederated army of Swita, Bern Soluthern and Freiburg marched to Granson, and fell upon the Burgundian troops in a narrow plain where their calvary and artillery could not be readily used, and where the Swiss infantry, with their long spears easily had the advantage. The unexpected coming of the forces of Uri, Unter Walden and Lucern completed their discomfiture and they fled in a panic. This battle destroyed the presitge of the duke." The French historian, Rollin, also classes the Swiss as the soldiers of the world and as a proof of this cites the fact that at the battle of Marignano, betwen them and the French; "They charged the French batteries thirtytwo times and fought until the mood went down at mid-night, penetrated the ranks of the French, and both armies being exhausted they bivouaced on the same field. The next morning the Swiss renewed the battle. Their fortune fluctuated until noon when they heard the cry of "San Marco." which announced the coming of Venitian reinforcements, and the Swiss were forced to retreat. This they did in good order, carrying with them their wounded, their guns and banners, Trivulzio, the French general, is quoted as saying "That in the eighteen battles that he had previously witnessed they were but child's play to that of Marignano." country. A person can surely indulge a little pride in such an exploits of his ancestors instead of those of himself. Then, beBern, Geneva and Basle. Many parts of Switzerland, the Vaud, Geneva and the wealthier Romans in the latter days of the republic, who built part of the year, and as a consequence the neighboring Swiss must have become possessed of some of the polish and refinement of Roman society. Our father was born in the village of Stafa, situated on the North bank of Lake Zurich, in the canton of Zurich, in close proximity to one of the recently discovered villages of the lake dwellers, September 8, 1798. he informed me that his parents had both a large family of girls and boys, whose names I never learned, with the exception of one brother named Felix. Our father was a very well educated person, could read and speak, fluently, three languages - German, French and English. His trade was that of a stonemason, brick-layer and plasterer, for workmen in Switzerland and Germany had to be proficient in all three in order to travel and work. he worked at his trade from the end of his apprenticeship until the year 1835, when he changed his occupation. He was also an architect and draftsman and I have seen the drawings and plans of several buildings which he planned and drew. As was, and still is customary in European countries, our father traveled over France and the German states, or rather kingdoms and electorate, and worked wherever and whenever he could find work he worked upon several of the public buildings in the city of Munich, the capital city of the kingdom of Bavaria, which are said to be among the finest buildings in the world. He was foreman on some of them. Our father was a Lutheran in religion, somewhat spare in flesh, but withall very powerful. He narrated to me how three workmen whom he had discharged, attacked him intending to beat him up; and how he had come out of the combat by putting them to flight, he having some sort of a tool in his hands which he did not hesitate to use. He was a very austere man, but when not angry was very kind to his family. Whenever he was the recippient of any king of fruit, instead of eating it himself, he would always bring it home and divide it with his family. He was a man of ungovernable temper at times, which was, of course, a blemish upon his character. His method of disciplining me was to send me to bed without any supper, but, as a matter of course, I needed correction. I have always been a great lover of flowers and in my boyhood days, both in the spring and fall, spent the after school hours in hunting wild flowers until it became so dark I could no more see them; which often interfered with the doing of my chores, and as a consequence was disciplined.
More About Jacob Walliker: Burial: Old family farm - near Princeville, IL.
More About Jacob Walliker and Anna Maria Laufenbeck: Marriage: Abt. 1832, Munich, Germany.
Children of Jacob Walliker and Anna Maria Laufenbeck are:
+Arnold Winkelried Walliker, b. September 25, 1855, Muscatine, Muscatine Co, Iowa, d. January 13, 1944, Clinton, Clinton County, Iowa.
Jacob Walliker (b. September 03, 1798, d. May 11, 1870)
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