Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Carl Alexander Detweiler

Male 1902 - 1987  (85 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Carl Alexander Detweiler was born 1902 (son of Alexander Detweiler and Anna E. Schmidt); died 1987; was buried , Saint James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-134253

    Carl — Catherine Mary Manning. Catherine (daughter of William Allen Manning and Ellen Prudence Langman) was born 1902; died 30 Sep 1992, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 2 Oct 1992, Saint James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Robert Detweiler
    2. Robert Allen Detweiler
    3. Carl Detweiler
    4. Katherine Detweiler
    5. Roscoe Detweiler died Yes, date unknown.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Alexander Detweiler was born 27 Dec 1870, Port Elgin, Saugeen Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada (son of Isaac Detweiler and Catharine Busch); died 1959; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: 00029-2292.2
    • Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cabinet Maker

    Alexander — Anna E. Schmidt. Anna (daughter of John George Schmidt and Anna Margaretha Wenk) was born 26 Nov 1868, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1959; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Anna E. Schmidt was born 26 Nov 1868, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (daughter of John George Schmidt and Anna Margaretha Wenk); died 1959; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Anna E. Detweiler
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-23365
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laundress
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

    Children:
    1. Harold Louis Detweiler was born 10 Apr 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 Jan 1955, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. 1. Carl Alexander Detweiler was born 1902; died 1987; was buried , Saint James Lutheran Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Margaret Edith Detweiler was born 16 Jul 1905, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 14 May 1974, Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan, United States; was buried , Cadillac Memorial Gardens-East, Macomb Co., Michigan, USA..


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Isaac Detweiler was born 11 Dec 1841, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Benjamin Detweiler and Elizabeth Kennedy); died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: 00029-2292
    • Residence: 1852, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Agricultural Laborer
    • Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; laborer
    • Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

    Notes:

    Isaac Detweiler," was born December 11th, 1841. He is a saddler by trade and resides in Port Elgin, Ontario. He is married to Catharine Busch, and has a family of four children, namely: VII Alexander, VII Albert, VII Charles Edward, and VII Lillian."


    Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

    Isaac — Catharine Busch. Catharine was born Abt 1841; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Catharine Busch was born Abt 1841; died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Catharine Detweiler
    • Eby ID Number: 00029-2292.1

    Children:
    1. Charles Edward Detweiler
    2. Lillian Detweiler
    3. 2. Alexander Detweiler was born 27 Dec 1870, Port Elgin, Saugeen Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1959; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. Albert Detweiler was born Between 1871 and 1872, Port Elgin, Saugeen Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

  3. 6.  John George Schmidt was born 29 May 1831, , Germany (son of John Schmidt and Catharine Rau); died Yes, date unknown.

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    • Name: George Schmidt
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28171P
    • Immigration: 1856, , Germany
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; shoemaker
    • Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; shoe maker
    • Residence: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

    Notes:

    King Street, Kitchener

    Benton to Eby Street.-Successive occupation was as follows: From Benton Street easterward, before 1855, a one-story brick building with gable facing King Street was erected at the corner and used by Jacob Benner as blacksmith shop. Later Benner moved to West Montrose and the next occupant was Valentine Gildner and after him his son John Gildner . This blacksmith shop continued until comparatively recent years. A frame building painted white, with veranda in front, was Gildner s residence..

    Vacant lot.

    A tinsmith shop owned by Mr. Lehnen . This had a nice front with two good-sized glass windows on either side of the door.

    A dwelling house built by Henry Rothaermel 1848-9. He was a carpenter and later was market clerk and tax collector.

    A lane.

    A one and one-half story building, with gable facing King Street and a verandah extending over the sidewalk, occupied by a Mr. Coleman 1855-1860. Adjoining it was a warehouse. The store passed to Coleman's son and then to John Kegel. Later John George Schmidt, shoemaker, occupied the building.

    A lane.

    A double, frame building about 50 feet along King St.; the east half used as a dwelling had a veranda; the west half was occupied by Charles Koehn, shoemaker.

    Open space.

    Dwelling of Gabriel Bowman, carpenter, who built the house.

    A one and one-half story building occupied by Balzar Allendorf, a coverlet weaver, about 1840. Allendorf later moved to New Hamburg. There was a veranda at the front of the house and under it a well. Cattle ran at large in the streets at this time and one Sunday afternoon a steer got on the veranda floor, which was partly rotted, broke through, fell into the well and had to be pulled out by means of a windlass. The building was torn down later.
    frame building ocupied by Henry Sippel, former employee of Allendorf, as a weaver's shop.

    In 1855 there was a frame building one and one-half story high along King Street divided into two parts, one part a dwelling and the other part a hat shop, owned by John Kidder, who made felt hats and old-fashioned bonnets. The shop was a few steps above the sidewalk level.

    A dwelling.

    A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with King street occupied by a widow, Mrs. Caroline Lehnen.

    A driveway.

    A two story brick building with gable toward King Street, occupied by J. J. Lehnen, son of the widow Lehnen, as a copper and tinsmith shop and a store. Lehnen made his own tinware. Later Jacob Doebler occupied this building as a bakery.

    A one and one-half story frame building with gable toward King Street occupied by George Yantz, a cabinet maker. He had a tavern in this same building for a time, and lived there.

    In the early years a garden.

    A small shop with sloping roof used by Christian Enslin as a book store and book-bindery, the first book-bindery in Berlin Enslm arrived in Berlin about 1830. Jacob Stroh remembers going with his father to the store to buy school supplies. Enslin later was editor, for Henry Eby, the publisher, of the Deutsche Canadier which began publication in 1840.

    Enslin's House, one-half story, frame, standing lengthwise with King Street and having a veranda over the door, was on the site of Dr. Hetts present office and house. At the rear there was an orchard.

    About 60 feet back of King Street there was a house built by Henry Eby. Shubel Randall, brother of George Randall, lived in it later. In 1860 the building was destroyed by fire and a servant girl Dina Hertz, perished in the flames. The walls remaining standing, the house was re-built, and is still in use.

    A brick building, abutting on King Street with gable facing the street, was Henry Eby's printing office. The main floor was she or seven feet above the sidewalk level. In 1860 this building was changed to a church and was the first Anglican Church in Berlin.

    A frame building, one end of which was used by Henry Bowman as a general store; he lived in the other end. This was known as the Bowman building. Later William Stein had a tailor shop in it and after him William Thoms used it as a shoe repair shop.

    REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

    Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

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    Frederick Street, East Side.

    On the corner Millar's store and at its rear a warehouse belonging to it, a two story building with gable toward Frederick Street.

    A vacant lot, site of the present Market Building, surrounded by a six foot hoard fence, customary in those days to keep out cattle, which had the freedom of the streets. A one and one-half story frame building with porch in front occupied by Mr. Yeck who died of being bled by a layman when he was Dr. Scott's patient. A man Geiger married the widow and lived in the building.

    A small frame building occupied by Geo. Schmidt.

    A small frame building occupied by Wm. Stein.

    A two story frame building with a small portico painted white over the front door, the house occupied by Thomas Pierce, then Principal of the Central School and later by Herman Rathman.

    On the corner, now occupied by Dr. Honsberger's residence, a two story brick building for some time the residence of Sheriff Davidson. Before that, 1840-1860, Jacob Kramer occupied the building as a tavern. Kramer was known as Strumpf Weber (stocking weaver) from a former occupation in a shop on Oueen Street S.

    Weber Street. On the corner a large brick building erected by Christian Enslin about 1855 with veranda along the entire Frederick Street front and on it a narrow gallery at the second floor. The building is still in use for stores with the veranda removed. At one time it was occupied as a tavern.

    A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with Frederick St. On the easterly corner of what is now Spetz St., a two story brick building, set back somewhat from the street, the house of Peter Rebscher. It had a large sign, "Peter Rebscher Brewer"; in the rear was the brewery, a two story frame building, and a large barn. A later brewer was Jacob Summer and after him, in 1862, Joseph Spetz had the house and brewery until he died.

    A vacant lot belonging to John Roth and later to Simon Roy who used it as a nursery for shrubs and rare trees.

    The old Central School and grounds, the school now remodelled and greatly enlarged to the present handsome Suddaby School. The Central School building had a belfry on top with at first a small bell and later a larger one. Jacob Stroh rang this bell as long as he attended the Central School, later W. H. Breithaupt had this charge for a time.

    A frame building occupied by Yost Kimmel, a carpenter.

    REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER)
    By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

    Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

    John married Anna Margaretha Wenk 16 Jul 1861, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Anna (daughter of John Wenk and Ann Eva Voelker) was born 18 Oct 1838, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Anna Margaretha Wenk was born 18 Oct 1838, , Germany (daughter of John Wenk and Ann Eva Voelker); died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Anna Margareth Wink
    • Name: Anna Margaretha Schmidt
    • Name: Margaret
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28172P
    • Immigration: 1856, , Ontario, Canada
    • Immigration: 1856, , Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

    Children:
    1. John Henry "Henry" Schmidt was born 18 Apr 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 8 Jun 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    2. George Simon Schmidt was born 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    3. Louisa S. Schmidt was born 26 Jun 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    4. 3. Anna E. Schmidt was born 26 Nov 1868, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1959; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Carl Heinrich Eckhardt "Charles" Schmidt was born 7 May 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 14 May 1938, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    6. Philip Schmidt was born 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    7. Louis Schmidt was born 21 May 1876, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    8. Emma Maria Schmidt was born 23 Jun 1878, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Benjamin Detweiler was born 23 Nov 1813, , Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania (son of Rev. Jacob Detweiler and Susannah Rosenberger); died 1900; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: 00029-2289
    • Occupation: 1852, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1852, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
    • Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Factory Hand
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

    Notes:

    Benjamin Detweiler," son of Jacob and Susannah ( Rosenberger) Detweiler, was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, November 23rd, 1813. When nine years of age he came to Canada with his parents who settled in North Dumfries Township, near Roseville, where young Benjamin was raised. On October 10th, 1837, he was married to Elizabeth Kennedy, a native of Inverness, Scotland, where she was born June 7th, 1820. Soon after their marriage they moved on a farm near Roseville, where they resided twenty years, thence they moved on a farm near St. Jacobs where they lived eleven years, then they sold out and moved to Port Elgin where they made a stay of four and one-half years. From here they moved back to old Waterloo County and settled at Cetreville where they resided for three and one-half years. In 1878 they moved to Berlin where they still reside. To them was born a large family:"


    Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

    Benjamin married Elizabeth Kennedy 10 Oct 1837. Elizabeth was born 7 Jun 1820, , Inverness, Scotland; died 1900; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Elizabeth Kennedy was born 7 Jun 1820, , Inverness, Scotland; died 1900; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Elizabeth Detweiler
    • Eby ID Number: 00029-2289.1
    • Residence: 1852, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

    Children:
    1. Rev. Noah Detweiler was born 23 Mar 1839, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Dec 1914, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Menno K. Detweiler was born 6 Sep 1840, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 Jul 1891, Port Elgin, Saugeen Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada.
    3. 4. Isaac Detweiler was born 11 Dec 1841, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    4. Daniel K. Detweiler was born 26 Apr 1843, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown; was buried , 6th Line Evangelical United Brethern Cemetery, Wallace Twp., Perth Co., Ontario.
    5. John K. Detweiler was born 15 Feb 1845, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    6. Susan Detweiler was born 1846, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    7. Sarah Ann Detweiler was born 15 Feb 1847, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Aug 1912, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    8. Phoebe Detweiler was born 23 Jan 1849, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 Nov 1907; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    9. Rebecca Detweiler was born 15 Jun 1851, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Feb 1914; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    10. Samuel K. Detweiler was born 25 May 1853, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 May 1912; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    11. Benjamin Detweiler was born 7 Apr 1855, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Bef 1899, Centreville (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    12. Magdalena "Lena" Detweiler was born 23 Jan 1857, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 May 1896, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , St. Jacobs Mennonite Cemetery, St. Jacobs, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    13. Lovina K. Detweiler was born 13 Dec 1859, Roseville, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 24 Sep 1941, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 27 Sep 1941, First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    14. Priscilla Detwiler was born CALC 17 Oct 1873; died 17 Jan 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

  3. 12.  John Schmidt was born Abt 1800, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28951

    John — Catharine Rau. Catharine was born Abt 1800, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]


  4. 13.  Catharine Rau was born Abt 1800, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Catharine Schmidt
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28962

    Children:
    1. 6. John George Schmidt was born 29 May 1831, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown.

  5. 14.  John Wenk was born Abt 1800, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28973

    John — Ann Eva Voelker. Ann was born Abt 1800, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]


  6. 15.  Ann Eva Voelker was born Abt 1800, of, Germany; died Yes, date unknown.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Ann Eva Wenk
    • Name: Anna Eva Volkar
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28984

    Children:
    1. 7. Anna Margaretha Wenk was born 18 Oct 1838, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown.
    2. Louisa Wenk was born 15 Jun 1841, Gleba, Hessen, Germany; died 6 Oct 1921, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA; was buried , Springdale Cemetery and Mausoleum, Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States.