78. Jakob's family moved from Echandens, Vaud to Steffisburg, Bern, Switzerland

Jakob II moved his family from Echandens, Vaud Canton to Steffisburg, Bern Canton, Switzerland.   See post #1 for a picture postcard view of Steffisburg, from the early 1900's.   It is near Thun, in central Switzerland.   The year of the move and the reason for the move are unknown.   Possibly Jakob II no longer had a job after the powder mill in Echandens closed. 

As explained about Jakob II in post #76, he learned powder milling before he was powder miller at Steffisburg.   His two sons assisted at the same mill, and both became powder millers.   Even with extensive experience, there were complications and dangers every day and moment in milling black powder.        


Before continuing with Jakob's story, let me catch you up with a sparse version of Friedrich's early life.  

  

76. Jakob Treuthardt II / was he a powder miller at Echandens?

Although I cannot prove by documents that Jakob II ran a mill at Echandens, the history indicates it.   A black powder mill (maybe more than one) existed at Echandens.   When the family moved from Echandens to Steffisburg, Jakob II became powder miller at the mill of Steffisburg.  Milling was a family business.  His two sons became powder millers, indicating that Jakob II trained his sons in the techniques of milling.   Evidence could prove my theory right or wrong.   Until that happens, there is good reason to believe that Jakob II ran a black powder mill at Steffisburg.  

In previous posts I wrote,
"... Jakob II will be choosing an entirely new direction, beginning a new chapter, getting married, having a family, and frankly, he needs to think about what he is doing."  (#64)   
"Jakob II, the eldest son of Jakob I and Barbara Treuthardt, is going to take a different life-route from his father and he will set the tone for the rest of the Treuthardt family in Switzerland."  (#58)

Considering how little I know about Jakob II, I have written a lot of imaginative things (posts #45, 58, 59, 64, 69, 71, 72).   Now we will move on to Steffisburg, where the history is more certain.  

1. A postcard of Steffisburg, Switzerland

To start on a good foot, we are traveling to Switzerland!

From the book: Die Schweiz in alten Photographien