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Yule Forenorth Kilcher (born Julius Jacob Kilcher; March 9, 1913 – December 8, 1998) was a Swiss-born American homesteader who was a member of the Alaska state senate from 1963 to 1966. He moved from Switzerland to Alaska in 1936 where he then lived permanently, after returning to Switzerland for a short time in 1939, outside of Homer, Alaska .
Kilcher and his wife Bonnie. Attila Kuno "Atz" Kilcher (born September 2, 1947) [1] is the oldest son of Yule F. Kilcher and Ruth Weber. [2] He is one of the stars on the Discovery show Alaska: The Last Frontier, which focuses on the Kilcher homestead established 80 years ago outside of Homer, Alaska on Kachemak Bay.
Alaska: The Last Frontier is an American reality television series that aired on the Discovery Channel from December 29, 2011, to November 13, 2022. The show documents the extended Kilcher family, descendants of Swiss immigrants and Alaskan pioneers, Yule and Ruth Kilcher, at their homestead 11 miles outside of Homer. [1]
Jewel was born May 23, 1974, in Payson, Utah, the second child of Atz Kilcher and Nedra Kilcher (née Carroll). [5] [6] At the time of her birth, her parents had been living in Utah with her elder brother, Shane; her father was attending Brigham Young University. [7] She is a cousin of actress Q'orianka Kilcher. [8]
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Mairiis Kilcher was born near Homer, Alaska. She is the daughter of Yule F. Kilcher and sister of Atz Kilcher. [1] Through Atz, she is the paternal aunt of singer-songwriter Jewel. As a teenager, her family took a trip to Switzerland where she was introduced to the music of Andrés Segovia. [2] This sparked an interest in guitar.
Kilcher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Andreas Kilcher (born 1963), Swiss academic; Atz Kilcher (born 1947), American reality TV personality; Jewel Kilcher (born 1974), American singer-songwriter, actress, and poet; Mossy Kilcher, American singer-songwriter from Alaska; Q'orianka Kilcher (born 1990), American actress and ...
Her mother Saskia Kilcher is the daughter of Ray "Pirate" Genet, a Swiss mountaineer who later immigrated to the United States, and Wurtilla Dora "Wurzy" Kilcher, who was born in Alaska to Swiss immigrant parents. Kilcher's great-grandfather was Yule F. Kilcher, a member of the Alaska Senate and delegate to the Alaskan constitutional conference ...