[1][2] In 1897, the family built one of the largest textile concerns in the world, primarily active in the United States, more specifically in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

[3][4] A daughter of Emil Stehli-Hirt (1868–1945), Margaretha Emerentia Frölicher-Stehli, has been a first class passenger and survivor of the Titanic.

The Stehli family received municipal citizenship of Zürich in 1490.

[6] After the dissolution of the manufacturing business during the textile downturn of the 1970s a lot of the historical archive materials were lost.

Most recently under the history research project Silk History since 1800 led by historian Alexis Schwarzenbach, the remains of the company archive was put in the State Archive of Zurich for historic preservation.