Daniel Jenny (entrepreneur, 1789)

Daniel Jenny (born September 2, 1789 in Ennenda ; † February 8, 1860 there , reformed , entitled to live in Ennenda) was a Swiss entrepreneur .

Life

Daniel Jenny was born on September 2, 1789 in Ennenda as the son of Pfister Johann Balthasar, Pfister. Daniel Jenny, who received only a rudimentary education, showed technical talent. In 1815 Jenny took part in the siege of Hüningen as a soldier and wagon master of the 3rd company of the Glarus Battalion .

As a result, Daniel Jenny built one of the first mechanical spinning mills between 1822 and 1823 . In addition, he acquired the water rights to use the village stream of Ennenda for a cotton spinning mill with around 2000 spindles . He received financial help from his uncles, the Kundert brothers from Glarus , with whom he formed the Jenny & Kundert company . In addition, Jenny was used as treasure bailiff and councilor .

Daniel Jenny married Sophia in 1809, the daughter of the weighing master Kaspar Zweifel. He died on February 8, 1860 at the age of 70 in Ennenda.

literature

• Adolf Jenny-Trümpy: Commerce and Industry of the Canton of Glarus, Tl. 2, 1902, p. 246 and 327 f.
• Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller : The Genealogy Works of the Canton Glarus, ca.1912
• Johann Jakob Kubly-Müller: The Jenny family in the canton of Glarus, 1929, 290 f.

Web links

• Hans Rudolf Stauffacher: Jenny, Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .