Chauney Ruby

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-137770
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Jerisalem

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-105915
• Residence: 1862, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1866, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ---
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Insurance Agent
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

Adam married Celia Elizabeth Harbin 10 Aug 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Celia (daughter of Rev. Dr. John Harbin and Elisabeth Wheeler) was born 1832, , Quebec, Canada; died 14 Aug 1887, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Celia Elizabeth Ruby
• Name: Celicia Elizabeth Harbin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-81311
• Birth: 9 Dec 1832, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

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• Military: Surgeon in British Army
• Occupation: Doctor - Surgeon - British Army
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33670
• Occupation: 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Minister New Jersusalem Church

Notes:

John Scott Notes: First Warden of Waterloo County 1853 (elected May 1852), shown as 1852 to 1856 in 100 years; and first Reeve of Berlin 1854-56. A transcript of Scott's speech on being elected Warden in 1852 is in WHS1951 39:11. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School in 1834, the same year he arrived in Waterloo County. His arrival coincided with an outbreak of cholera in Galt that he helped to combat. He began his practice in Berlin that same year as the first licensed physician, and upheld his professionalism before quacks and charlatans. In 1849 Scott and Dr James Whiting were appointed to report to the Health Board on the state of health in Berlin. A.B. Sherk recollected that the "doctors did most of their outside professional work on horseback, and everybody knew them" (WHS1915 3:18). Scott had three horses. He was also coroner for the county for many years and was appointed Revenue Inspector in 1852. He was also a member of the first Berlin Grammar School Board of School Trustees and the first Local Superintendent. As Warden he loaded the first wheelbarrow at the breaking of ground for the railway line at Berlin in 1853. Dr Scott was converted to the Swedenborgian Church by Rev. John Harbin, formerly a surgeon in the British army, who assisted the doctor with his surgical operations. He died of a "malignant liver complaint." W.H. Breithaupt sums up his life as "short, and to a high degree, useful" (WHS1941 29:198) * Before he moved to Weber Street, Scott had a two storey frame building with a drug store on King and Frederick (WHS1930 18:196) Sources: WHS1915 3:18; WHS1951 39:11; WHS1941 29:198; WHS1989 77; 1851 census


Grassroots government: biographies of Waterloo Township councillors, Elizabeth Bloomfield and Linda Foster, 1995

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The Swedenborgians received the Rev. John Harbin, a New Church missionary, in 1843. In his early manhood he had been a surgeon in the British army. While practising his profession in Salisbury, England, he joined the Swedenborgian Church and resolved to devote his life to the dissemination of its doctrines. He emigrated to Canada in 1830 and labored as a missionary at Markham, Upper Canada, and in the district lying west and north of Toronto. The Berlin congregation then invited him to become their pastor. He accepted the call in 1844 and held services in the Free Church. The Rev. Mr. Harbin was the grandfather of the late Charles A. Ruby, a former manager of the Mutual Life Assurance Company of Canada. Mr. Harbin often assisted Dr. John Scott at performing a surgical operation. A friendship ensued and Dr. Scott and wife joined the Swendenborgian Church. Three other prominent men, Henry S. Huber, John Hoffman and William Hendry, (the first manager of the Mutual Life Assurance Company) and their families likewise became members.

The History of Kitchener

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In 1833, Kitchener was a tiny, pioneer hamlet called Berlin. A group of people began to meet regularly in the apple orchard of Mr. Christian Enslin, a book binder by trade, at the present-day location of King and Benton Streets downtown (where the Four Seasons Hotel now stands). They gathered to study the books of Emanuel Swedenborg who wrote about the inner meaning of the Bible and the inner unity of all religions.

This made those first church members not only pioneers of the soil but pioneers of the Spirit, too. On fire with their new insights, their numbers grew. In 1842, they joined with three other congregations to build a small wood-frame building that also served as Berlin's first public school. The first minister, Rev. John Harbin, was already serving a small missionary church in Markham. Harbin had been a military surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars and often assisted Dr. John Scott, Berlin's first doctor, in his operations. Dr. Scott joined the church and later became the first Warden of the County of Waterloo when it was created in 1853. The Ruby family were also founding members of the church and Charles Ruby became manager of the Mutual Life Company (Sun Life today).

"Our History - Church Of The Good Shepherd". 2021. Church Of The Good Shepherd. https://www.shepherdsway.ca/our-history.

John — Elisabeth Wheeler. Elisabeth (daughter of Wheeler) was born 8 May 1805, , England; was christened 1846, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Jan 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elisabeth Harbin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-33671
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lady
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

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Queen Street North, East Side.

Huber and Ahrens occupied the corner as a store and had a warehouse at the rear. The first section of the American Block was built in 1862. It contained a hotel with entrance on Queen Street and stores on the King Street front.

A meat shop occupied by one Schaefer and later by Crozier. This building was later occupied by Von Ebenau, a German toy dealer. He also built some sidewalks for the village in 1857.

A long two story frame building originally used by C. Ahrens as a barn and later by John Jacob Woelfle, a plough maker, who had a shop at one end and lived in the rest of the building. He had worked in the foundry on Foundry St. and after this shut down started his own shop. The building was later occupied by Rev. Jacob Wagner, who died there.

In 1858 a two story frame building was erected by Louis Breithaupt as his office and leather store. This was the first building on this site.

A 1 1/2 story dwelling with veranda lengthwise with Queen St. occupied by jailer Walden. Dr. Whiting later lived in this building for a time.

A small house occupied by Mrs. Harbin, (widow of Rev. Harbin who was Swedenborgian minister in Berlin) and her sister, Mrs. Wheeler.

A garden owned by Thomas Sparrow, with balsam trees along the street, adjoining the Sparrow's two story house with gable toward Queen St. and long veranda. Sparrow later moved to Galt.

A two story plaster building painted red with ground floor considerably above the sidewalk level and steps leading up to it, occupied by the Commercial Bank.

St. Peter's Church, formerly a vacant lot belonging to Mrs. Krug. The lot extended to Weber St. and to Mrs. Krug's house on Frederick St. This site was at one time favorably considered for the Central School, but it was decided that the ground would not be large enough. The present parsonage of St. Peter's Church was built by Dr. Eby, a native of Berlin, who had been living in Sebringville. He was the oldest son of John Eby spoken of as on Frederick Street. He married a daughter of Cyrus Bowers.

Weber Street.

County Buildings.

Jail and Jailer's residence with a barn at the rear. The jail was built some time after the Court House, about 1860.

Ahrens Street.

One and a half story frame building painted red, the dwelling of Charles Roos, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory.

Frame building, the house of Mr. Stuebing, later occupied by Charles Peterson.

Small dwelling.

Street.

A brick yard operated by Nicholas Zieger who made puddled brick by hand. Later the brick yard belonged to John Dauberger whose house, a red frame building, was on the corner of Ellen and Queen.

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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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-69531