This column’s focus is Christian Sr., and Magdalena Steiner Suter and their children, with a special emphasis on the family of their son,...

Peter Steiner came to America with his parents Christian and Katharina Luginbuhl Steiner in 1835. Click here for a previous column in...

And, why is Main Street laid out northeast to southwest? Where is the earliest settled section of Bluffton? The map accompanying this...

Three Althaus brothers Rudolf, Gotthard and Henry, each born in Landschaft, Bretzwil, Canton Basel, Switzerland, came to the America...

Abraham Steiner was the sixth child of John (or Johann) and Elizabeth Stauffer Steiner, a Mennonite couple both born in Alsace, France....

This column follows Anna Amstutz, born in Switzerland to Michael Amstutz and Barbara Lehman Amstutz. Her first husband, Christian...

Photo by Paul Diller,, circa 1956

Where was the first school building? What became of it? The answers may surprise you The Victorian Bluffton school constructed in 1875,...