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days before. On 26 May 1862 Messikommer married his second wife
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Wetzikon, Messikommer discovered a cremation ground, and the remains of grave urns. In 1891 Jakob Messikommer started regular scientific records by establishing the chronicle of the municipality of Wetzikon, and in 1897 he was a co-founder of the Antiquarian Society.
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newspaper, Messikommer published some contributions about "Das Gebiet in
Wetzikon in prähistorischer Zeit", by explaining his recent archaeological perceptions to a wide audience. In 1887 Messikommer became co-founder of the Wetzikon section of the
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Wetzikon. In 1855 he founded an agricultural association. The young farmer started to cultivate reed land at the so-called
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lake shore, Messikommer was charged to examine the remains of stilt houses in ZĂĽrich-Wollishofen. In 1894 Messikommer scientifically demonstrated that the "lake-dwellers" in
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Messikomer dug peat for his mother’s kitchen fire, he dreamed of finding remains of the
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