Immigrant Family

The story of the Kelker family begins with a tragic 1743 transatlantic voyage from Switzerland to America and continues through ten generations to the 21st century. It is told from biographies of family members whose lives are in some manner distinguished, some by accomplishment and a few others by failure or misdeeds. The immigrants settled in Pennsylvania Dutch country where they farmed the land and set about establishing a new life. Their Swiss-born son Anthony, who arrived at age ten, lived