Emmenthal cheese (1851, 1853)

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   OED and Merriam-Webster have 1902 for "Emmenthal" or "Emmental" cheese.  This is not even close.
   From the many 1850s hits on Making of America (Mich.-Books):

Title: Encyclopædia americana. A popular dictionary of arts, sciences, literature, history, politics and biography, a new ed.; including a copious collection of original articles in American biography; on the basis of the 7th ed. of the German Conversations-lexicon. Ed. by Francis Lieber, assisted by E. Wigglesworth ...
Publication date: 1851.
Page 73  - 2 terms matching "Emmenthal", "cheese"
("...the well-known Emmenthal cheese is made"--ed.)

Author: G.P. Putnam & Co.
Title: Putnam's home cyclopedia ...
Publication date: 1852-1853.
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