Arthur Wachsmuth

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-175131
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Business: 7 Arthur Street N., Elmira, Ontario; Otto Wachsmuth's Boot and Shoe
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26136
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoe Maker
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Salesman, Bookstore
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

Notes:

Henry N. Lapsley ran a shoe store in the Chapman brick block where Jack Courtney now has his office, and John Limpert where Cliff Kreig has his confectionery store. Jack sold out to Otto Wachsmuth who closed out here and went and opened a florist's shop at Chatham.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

Otto — Marnie Klippert. Marnie was born Dec 1884, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Marnie Wachsmuth
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-175120
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Name: Wilhelm Wachsmuth
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26133
• Building: 1860, 7 Arthur Street N., Elmira, Ontario
• Residence: 1871, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hardware Merchant
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

M. Weichel and Son Ltd., Hardware, Celebrates 75^th Year of Business

A special sale marks the 75^th anniversary of Elmira's oldest hardware store, M. Weichel and Son Ltd., this week. The store was founded in 1879 by Michael Weichel in a store leased from William Wachsmuth, on the site where the Dreisinger furniture store now stands. At that time two clerks were employed in the store, Mr. Weichel's 13 year-old son John and another man. In December 1885 the Weichels moved their stock, valued at $4000 into a store which stood on part of the ground now occupied by the E. S. Otto building. Mr. Weichel carried on business here for a year, meanwhile working on the building which was to become his permanent store....

The Elmira Signet, Thursday, November 4, 1954

William married Fredericka Geiger 23 Mar 1871. Fredericka (daughter of David Geiger and Caroline Lindeman) was born 5 Apr 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Oct 1907, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Fredericka Wachsmuth
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-26132
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Wachsmuth. - At Berlin, Oct. 14^th, Fredica, relict of the late Wm. Wachsmuth, formerly of Elmira, aged 58 years, 6 months and 10 days. The funeral takes place next Friday afternoon, from her late residence to the Berlin cemetery. Service will be held in the Baptist church.

The Elmira Signet, October 17, 1907

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Excerpt from:
Deed of Land Situate in the Village of Elmira
Dated October 1^st 1906
J. P. Bender, Conveyancer, Barrister, Etc. Berlin, Ont.

This Indenture.. between Frederica Wachsmuth, of the town of Berlin in the County of Waterloo, Widow... and Christian Dreisinger, of the Village of Elmira...
Witnesseth that in consideration of Six Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty Dollars of lawful money of Canada now paid... In the Village of Elmira in the County of Waterloo and Province of Ontario, being composed of part of Lot number ONE of Robert Kennings Survey according to combined plan of the said Village of Elmira dated in the year 1886 and registered in the Registry Office for the County of Waterloo on the twelfth day of November A. D. 1887, said Lot number One lying on the east side of Arthur Street and the north side of Church Street in the said village of Elmira, EXCEPTING thereout that portion of said Lot number One sold and conveyed by William Wachsmuth to one Robert Sutherland by deed dated the thirteenth day of July A. D. 1868 and registered in the said Registry Office on the twenty-seventh day of July A.D. 1868 in Book F7 for the Township of Woolwich as No. 3035 - and also EXCEPTING thereout that portion of said Lot number One sold and conveyed by the said William Wachsmuth to one Henry Dunke by deed dated the first day of March A.D. 1869 and registered in the said Registry Office on the third day of May A.D. 1869 in Book F for the said Township of Woolwich as Number 3215 - and also EXCEPTING thereout that portion thereof sold and conveyed by the said William Wachsmuth to one George W. Ford by deed dated the 2^nd day of February 1874 and registered in the said Registry Office on the twentieth day of June 1874 as No. 4487 - and also EXCEPTING thereout the lands described in a deed of conveyance by the said Frederica Wachsmuth to one Henry Stumpf, dated the eighth day November 1905 and registered in the said Registry Office on the eighteenth day of November 1905 in Book L2 for the Village of Elmira, as No. 1024. The said lands being subject to a right of way over a strip of land bordering along the westerly boundary of the lands sold as aforesaid to Henry Stumpf, eight feet in width throughout and fronting on Arthur Street by a depth of about seventy feet and the use of certain well situate on the property over which the said right of way extends.

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• Eby ID Number: 00041-3280.44
• Occupation: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang.

David — Caroline Lindeman. Caroline was born 1809, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Caroline Geiger
• Eby ID Number: 00041-3280.45
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangrlical
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang.