James Edward Warnock

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-156264
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; English Church

James married Mary Amelia "Minnie" Blain 4 Jun 1890, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Mayor Richard Blain and Margaret Gillesby) was born 28 Oct 1865, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 31 Dec 1865, Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Nov 1925, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 24 Nov 1925, Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Dora Stephanie Warnock was born 23 Jul 1893, , Ontario, Canada; died 1948, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.
2. Edward Gillesby Warnock was born 12 Mar 1897, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 23 Dec 1966, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Other Events:

• Business: Gore Fire Insurance, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gore Fire Insurance Co.
• Interesting: insurance, business, life story,
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67497
• Occupation: 1850, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wool Manufacturer
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1901, 96 St. Andrews St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

The Gore Fire Insurance Co.

Among the many institutions of which Galt boasts, none are more conspicuous than the Gore Ins. Co.'s palatial and imposing structure situated on the corner of Main and Ainslie Streets. The style is of the Romanesque character, and is build with Connecticut brown-stone rock-faced base up to the first storey window sills; above this it is faced with brown pressed brick, tooled portage entry stone trimmings and Terra Cotta carvings. The corner of Main and Ainslie Streets is round, having over the main entrance a heavily moulded arch, supported on two Doric columns, and over the arch the Company's name carved in mediaeval letters. This round corner is continued up above the roof, forming a round tower, roofed with Spanish tiles and terminating in a columned and octagon lantern, with ogee top and flag staff. Total height from the side-walk about eighty-two feet. The Gore has about 125 active agents through Ontario.

Officers of Management:

Hon. Jas. Young, President
Adam Warnock, Esq., Vice-President
Hugh McCulloch
Hugh Cant
Robt. Scott
Chas. McGill
Jno. Watson
James Goldie
R.S. Strong, Man. Director

Jubilee Souvenir of Galt 1897

______________________

ADAM WARNOCK

1828-1902
Member of the Cambridge Hall of Fame (1996) Married: Stephanie Hespeler - 1850

Born in 1828 in Nelson, a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, Adam Warnock immigrated to Canada with his family first to Beverly in 1833 and then, in 1835, to Galt. In 1850 Mr. Warnock married Stephanie Hespeler, the sister of Jacob Hespeler and William Hespeler, and with her had two sons, James Edward Warnock and Charles Raphael Hunter Warnock. Mr. Warnock was what has been described as a "man of prominence" for almost all of his adult life. From 1850 to 1857 he was a partner, with James M. Fraser, in a dry goods and grocery store known as Fraser & Warnock. Following this he formed a partnership with his brother James in the ownership of the Galt Edge Tool Co. formerly the Galt Axe Factory owned by H. H. Date. He served as a member of the 1st Battalion of Waterloo Militia receiving a commission as an Ensign in 1850 and a Lieutenant in 1856. Mr. Warnock was a trustee of the Galt Collegiate Institute and one of the founders of the Galt Hospital Trust. He served as President of the Hospital Trust for three years and was a Vice-President of the Gore Mutual Insurance Company for the last twenty-five years of his life. His interest in the woollen business began as a partner with James Crombie in mills they operated in Plattsville and Preston. The Preston mill later operated as Geo. Pattinson & Co. one of Preston's largest employers and one of the largest woollen producers in the country. In 1881 Mr. Warnock was part of an eight man group known as "The Syndicate" that formed the Galt Knitting Company. The former Robinson & Howell Co. textile mill on Water Street was purchased and converted into a knitting mill. Mr. Warnock became the president of the company and remained in that office for twenty years. The company manufactured shirts and drawers on a moderately large scale by Canadian standards. By the turn of the century the company employed about 110 people. In 1885, in partnership with Andrew M. Newlands, Mr. Warnock founded a small knitting firm which operated under the name of Newlands & Co. In 1894 Mr. Warnock withdrew from the Newlands partnership when he sold his interest in the company to Andrew

Newlands Jr. and Joseph Stauffer. Mr. Warnock retired from business in 1901 due to ill health, leaving the day to day operations of the Galt Knitting Company to his sons James and Charles. He died on August 29, 1902 and is buried in Trinity Anglican Cemetery. The Galt Knitting Company manufactured a large variety of knitted underwear, eiderdowns, shoe linings and knitted specialties and remains in business today. Now known as Tiger Brand Knitting Company, the company manufactures a wide range of fashion sportswear and is still operated by members of the Warnock family.

Sources:
1. Roderick Cunningham Legacy of the Gore Cunningham Enterprises, Toronto, 1989.
2. Obituary Galt Reforner Saturday August 30, 1902.
3. Obituaries Galt Reporter Thursday
September 4, 1902.
4. "Hall of Fame Citation", City of Cambridge Archives, Inducted February 1996.
5. A.B. McCulloch The Primary Textile Industry in Canada History and Heritage, (studies in
Archaeology, Architecture and History), National Historic Sites Parks Service Environment Canada Ottawa 1992.
6. John P. Shewchuk "The Development of the Textile Trade at Galt, Preston and Hespeler 1832 - 1914", Unpublished manuscript, City of Cambridge
Archives MG I Vol. 35, A988.155.01
7. James Young, Reminiscences of the Settlement of Galt and North Dumfries Hunter, Rose and Co Toronto 1880.

Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [used with kind permission of Jim Quantrell]

Business:
THE GORE FIRE INSURANCE CO.

Among the many institutions of which Galt boasts, none are more conspicuous than the Gore Ins. Co's pal-atial and imposing structure situated on the corner of Main and Ainslie streets. The style is of a Romanesque char-acter, and is built with Connecticut brown-stone, rock-faced base up to the first storey window sills ; above this it is faced with brown pressed brick, tooled portage entry stone trimmings and Terra Cotta carvings. The corner of Main and Ainslie streets is round, having over the main entrance a heavily moulded arch, supported on two Doric columns, and over the arch the Company's name carved in mediaeval letters. This round corner is continued up above the roof, forming a round tower, roofed with Span-ish tiles and terminating in a columned and octagon lantern, with ogee top and flag staff. Total height from the side-walk about eighty-two feet. The Gore has about 125 active agents through Ontario.<sup>1a

1a</sup>1897 Jubilee Souvenir of Galt

Adam married Stephanie Hespeler 3 Oct 1850, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Stephanie (daughter of Johann Georg "George" Hespeler and Anna Barbara Wick) was born 22 Jun 1828, Gernsbach, Gernsbach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died 4 Jun 1921, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Steffina H. Hespeler
• Name: Stephanie Warnock
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-67498
• Residence: 1850, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1861, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; English Church
• Immigration: 1885, , Canada
• Naturalization: 1888, , Canada
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Recipes: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Recipes: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Recipes: 1898, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Notes:

Recipes:
OYSTER FRITTERS.

MRS. JAS. WARNOCK.

Take one pint of milk, two well beaten eggs and flour to make a smooth but rather thin batter, season with pepper and salt, stir in fifty large oysters, drop a spoon-ful of batter into boiling lard, having one or two oysters in each spoonful. Serve hot in fringed napkins.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Margaret Taylor and Frances McNaught, The New Galt Cook Book (Revised Edition (Toronto, Ontario: McLeod & Allen, 1898).

Recipes:
PICKLED OYSTERS.

MRS. JAS. WARNOCK.

One quart of fine large oysters, one pint of oyster liquor and the same of strong vinegar. Drain the oysters, strain the liquor and boil. While boiling hot drop in the oysters allowing them only to be well scalded. Remove the oysters to a flat dish where they will cool. Add the vinegar with one teaspoonful black mace, two dozen whole cloves, same of black pepper and allspice, to the oyster liquor, and just as this liquor boils, pour over the cold oysters, which must previously have been put in a jar.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Margaret Taylor and Frances McNaught, The New Galt Cook Book (Revised Edition (Toronto, Ontario: McLeod & Allen, 1898).

Recipes:
FRICASSEE CHICKEN.

MRS. ADAM WARNOCK.

Carve a fowl into nice joints, make gravy of the trim-mings and legs by stewing them with lemon peel, mace or herbs, onions, seasoning and water until reduced to one pint. Then strain and put in the fowl; let boil for three-fourths of an hour, take another stew-pan, put in a little butter, dredge with flour and a little hot water, add to the chicken and let it boil for twenty minutes; before serving stir the well-beaten yolks of one or two eggs with a little cream into it, but do not let it boil again.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Margaret Taylor and Frances McNaught, The New Galt Cook Book (Revised Edition (Toronto, Ontario: McLeod & Allen, 1898).

Other Events:

• Interesting: pioneer, story, cholera, epidemic
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-69167
• Immigration: 1832, , Canada
• Residence: 1834, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1842, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1842, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

YOUNG - On the afternoon of Sunday last, a weaver named William Young was frozen to death in a field belonging to John Warnock, Esq., Beverly. Deceased had been in Galt during Saturday, and was evidently on his way home by a short path through the fields when overcome by the extreme cold. Parcels of groceries, shoes, etc. were found beside him.


An inquest was held on the body, and a verdict found in accordance with the above facts. He leaves a wife and a large family behind him.


Hamilton Spectator 5 Feb 1866

John — Annie Hunter. Annie was born 1799, , Scotland; died 19 Oct 1887, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Annie Warnock
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-42898
• Immigration: 1832, , Canada
• Residence: 1834, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Obituary - We regret today to announce the death of one of the oldest and most respected residents of the Township of Beverly, Mrs. Warnock, relict of the late John Warnock, who passed away on Wednesday evening in the 87th year of her age. It is impossible at the time of writing to do more than merely mention the death of this lady - one whose naure has been a "household work" in both Beverly and Galt for the past fifty years, and whose death will be universally regretted.

Galt Reporter Oct 21 1887 pg 1

___________________

The Late Mrs. John Warnock

In announcing the death last week of Mrs. John Warnock, we had not time to give more than a brief notice of her long and useful life. Coming to this country from Scotland in 1832 with her husband and young family, they arrived in the at that time little village of Galt in 1833, where her husband had charge of the Dumfries Mils for many years. There are but very few left now of the early pioneers, but those few will remember too vividly the many trials that had to be undergone which are incident to a new country like Canada. During the epidemic of Asiatic Cholera, which was terribly fatal in Galt in 1834, Mrs. Warnock gave evidence of great courage and devotion to the sick and dying and many a family was comforted at that time by her more than unselfish ministration. In 1842 the family removed to Beverly, where ever since she has resided on Meadowhead farm and where the afflicted at all times for miles round could look forward to finding a friend who was able and willing to afford help in their hour of trouble. Her life was a long and active one until within a few hours of her death. She complained on the afternoon of Tuesday of feeling unwell and during the night was restless. The next day the absent members of her family were sent for and at 5 p.m. they wished her good-bye, believing that she was better, but an hour later her life had quietly ebbed away without a struggle.

Galt Reporter Oct 28 1887 pg 1

Other Events:

• Name: George Hespeler
• Name: John George Hespeler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-86859
• Residence: 1809, Eningen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Notes:

It is reported that Johann George Hespeler was born 8 Nov 1784 in Eningen, Wurttemburg, Germany and married Anna Barbara Wick 27 July 1809 in Ehingen who was the daughter of Jacob Wick and Marie Ursula Wick. Anna was born 26 Nov 1791 in Eningen. Johann was employed as a merchant businessman with the house of Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Sources are needed to confirm.

Johann married Anna Barbara Wick 27 Jul 1809, Eningen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Anna was born 26 Nov 1791, Ehningen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died 21 Dec 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Trinity Anglican Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Anna Babette Wick
• Name: Anna Barbara Hespeler
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-86860
• Residence: 1809, Eningen, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Christian
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Death of Mrs. Hespeler
From Galt Reporter

Obituary - We record this week the close of a very remarkable life, in the death of Mrs. Hespeler, aged 90 years and a few days, one of the oldest, if not the oldest, person in Galt. Mrs. Hespeler was one of the links connecting the present life with that of the last century. She was born at Ehningen, Wurtemberg, Germany, and witnessed there for many years most of the stirring events which occurred during the Napoleon wars. She frequently saw Napoleon 1, and many of the Crowned Heads of Europe at that time, as well as many of very celebrated Generals of the allied armies. In 1812 she witnessed the return of the French Army on its retreat from Moscow, and her description of their terrible sufferings and appearance from wounds, frost-bites and hunger, were most thrilling. Her description may be best appreciated when it is known that of the Wurtemberg contingent which accompanied Napoleon 1, in the Russian campaign, only five percent, ever again reached their homes.

Early in the present century Mrs. Hespeler and her husband were largely engaged in business with the House of Meyer Anschel Rothschild, of Frankfurt, the founder of the great Banking House. She often spoke of the little back parlor at Zion Rothen Schilde, and the quiet steadfast business manner of the great man who has since left his mark upon the financial dealings of all Europe. In 1840, her husband died, leaving her with all the responsibility of a large family to bring up and educate. In 1852 she decided to emigrate to Canada, where her children had preceded her, her two sons, the late Jacob Hespeler, and Mr. Wm. Hespeler, then occupying prominent positions as Millers, Merchants and Manufacturers at Preston, Hespeler and Waterloo. In 1872 Mrs. Hespeler returned to Germany, thinking there to end her days, but returned, we believe, within the year, finding, like so many under similar circumstances, that so far as her native country was concerned, she had outlived her friends and could no longer enjoy the changed features of the old home life. Possessed of a very retentive memory, and having been a most extensive traveler in that country and Italy, her reminiscence of scenes there were always powerfully described and very interesting, and when in her later years she met her old friends, nothing gave her greater presence than when talking over the eventful scenes through which she had passed her long life.

Guelph Mercury - Dec 24 1881 pg 1