SOURCE OF INFORMATION: Parish Records of Heimiswil, Bern, Switzerland.
Christening Register of Citizens living out of town, Vol. 12, p. 58
Father is a tenant farmer living in Matran, FR.
Godparents are the child's siblings - Friedrich, Jakob and Rosina Ryser.

(Research):In a September 1991 interview, his niece Malvina Schnarr Vanata said he was a Conductor on the Santa Fe Railroad. She also said he lived at Juanta, Colorado (I believe this is La Juanta, Otero, Colorado). I believe I found him on the 1930 Census at Albuquerque, NM. In his sister's 1931 obituary, it says he lived in Albuquerque, NM at the time.