Achilles Adolph RAMSEYER ¹

  General Notes:

Emigrated to Salt Lake City, USA, and joined the Mormon faith.
10 children

Achilles Ramseyer, practiced medicine in the Bear Lake Region and had worked as a bookkeeper for a mining company and ZCMI before becoming a temple recorder


Notes from his son Lorenzo copied from website:
http://www.geni.com/people/Lorenzo-Ramseyer/6000000000816639240
This now brings us to the reason my parents left Europe.
13. About 1885\emdash My Father and Mother were going together and Father
was 18\emdash Mother was 17.
It was quite the vogue in those days, as it is now for the younger set to go to dances and places of entertaining.
My Father, coming of wealthy parents could well afford a dance, a dinner, wine and Champaign for his
14. Lady love. And that is what they enjoyed. However, my father's mother finding out that he went with a girl coming from a poor family, forbade such on penalty of losing his allowance. \endash This woman recovered? without love. \endash as Father continued to see his girl Marie. However it was with the greatest of discretion as far
15. as his Mother was concerned. They both were very much in love and rebelled at the "crime" of wealth that threatened to keep them apart. They met frequently\emdash and when missionaries from the USA representing the Mormon Church\emdash appeared in town\emdash willing to tell the inhabitants of a wonderful religion
16. and a wonderful country where all could worship as they pleased\emdash who could blame them when they heard this and became enamored of living free from fears of ancient prejudices?
My Father and Mother became believers and plotted to leave their country, join this organization and came to America.
17. As a humorous aspect of my father's personality, let me say that he admitted that he questioned the envoys of America 1st. Are there any Buffalo left in America and can you still shoot Indians?
(As a (corollary) Of this-may I state that the killing of Indians was forever denied my Father\emdash but was not alien to my
18. Mother\emdash as she lived in St. George, Utah during the "Black Hawk" uprising of Indians and she saw massacres of whites while residing there--Father was still in France pursuing his medical studies).
My Father was a graduate of the Academy of Medicine in Paris and also of the Beaux Arts.
19 \endash In other words, he pursued the science of medicine and the arts. We have to this day paintings he made while still in Paris and his ladylove in America.
Early in 1886, he connived with and bribed certain officials, namely, to get Marie Hoffman a passport\emdash and paid passage for her to America. His allowance was not sufficient to enable her to go 1st class. She went stearage. ?
20. At the border they suddenly encountered officials that tried to prevent her from leaving\emdash This narrative will explain in detail how the two lovers foiled such effort on part of the officials\emdash and how Marie Hoffman sailed from "Le Havre" France" \endash and left a world so bogged down with rituals and Babbitt that a young person had to rebel in order to live the life that they
21. felt suited them.
After Mother's departure, Father stayed dutifully with his study of medicine and got his allowance from his Mother only to send the major part to Mother whom he had not yet married, in America. He finally completed his studies, got his doctor's degree, and after a session with his mother, from which he emerged being disowned, he sailed for America joined my Mother, got married in the Salt Lake Temple
22. and became the father of which I am the proudest mortal to acknowledge as the (peer/friend?) of any Father.

Achilles married Maria HOFMANN, daughter of Daniel HOFMANN and Katherina WYTTENBACH, on 13 Oct 1887 in Logan, Cache, Utah, USA. (Maria HOFMANN was born on 22 Jun 1864 in Les Ponts, Neuchatel, Switzerland, died on 7 Jun 1955 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA and was buried on 10 Jun 1955 in Salt Lake City, UT, USA.)