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This site has been created by Robert H. Moeckly of St. Helena, California to commemorate, preserve and disseminate the history of his family in the United States and in Switzerland.

His story began in the small village of Radhof, Canton Zurich Switzerland in 1852. His great great great grandfather Konrad Möckli and his son Johannes Ulrich Möckli left the ancestral village of Radhof near Marthalen with a group of relatives to emigrate to the United States. With the blessing and support of the local Gemeinde, they left all that they knew and loved in Switzerland for the promise and unknown that lay in the United States.

They arrived first in Ohio and were collected by Konrad's younger brother Johannes who emigrated earlier in 1849. Johannes was a Swiss Reform Church minister and, at the time of the arrival of Konrad and Johannes, held a congregation in a small town outside of Chicago, IL. Konrad and Johannes spent two years in Illinois while Konrad learned the ways of farming in America and Johannes learned the trade of carpentry.

In 1854 they relocated to the newly opened areas in Iowa. They purchased land in Polk County, Iowa and spent the first cold winter living on a small knoll on the property using the wagon as shelter. This original tract of land is still in the possession of direct descendants of Konrad and Johannes Ulrich Möckli.

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