Private Henry Conrad August "Harry" Delion

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• Misfortune: killed in WW1
• Name: Harry Delion
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 122 Chestnut St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-186850
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private, 118th Battalion
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #751535

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SENT FLOWERS HOME THAT WERE PICKED AT LENS

Henry Delion, of the Telegraph staff this morning received a letter from his son, Bugler Harry Delion, who enlisted with the 118th Battalion, in which he sent a number of interesting souvenirs of the Canadian drive on Lens. They were English flowers that had been planted near the mining city and were in bloom at the present and which were picked by young Delion during one of the assaults that were made by the Canadian troops on the city. Bugler Delion states that he is growing tall, fat and strong but he needs every ounce he has for the work that they are being called upon to delay after day. He informs his parents that the parcels sent by them and friends are being received regularly.

The Chronicle Telegraph 16 Aug 1917, p. 3

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25897
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Theology Student
• Occupation: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1894, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; printer
• Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printer, Newapaper
• Residence: 1921, 47 Water St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

THE FIRST NEWSPAPER

The first paper published in Elmira, the Elmira Anzieger, was established in 1869 by the Delion Bros., Fred and William. They continued for thirteen years when it was purchased by Mr. George Beaver, some time in 1883 Two years later it became the property of Charles Delion who published it until 1895 when Messrs. Henry Delion and Casper Ziegler purchased the plant. The latter firm then established the Elmira Advertiser which has been a success from the beginning. Mr. Chas. Delion is editor and manager. They are getting out a clean, spicy paper, and therefore deserve the hearty support of the people of this section.

Waterloo County Chronicle 27 Jan 1898, p. 3

Henry married Catherine Elsie Stumpf 29 Jul 1894, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine (daughter of Johann Heinrich (Henry) Stumpf and Maria Magdalena Gimber) was born 2 Sep 1877, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1965; was buried , Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Elsie Delion
• Name: Catherine Elsie McAuley
• Name: Catherine Stumpf McCauley
• Name: Katie E. Stumpf
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25898
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1921, 47 Water St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Name: Frederick Delion
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25901
• Occupation: 1843, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doctor
• Occupation: 1852, Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Medical Doctor
• Occupation: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

DELION, FREDERICK was the founder of a family in the New World who was born in what was then Prussia in 1809.

He was first mentioned in a wedding announcement in the Deutsche Canadier on February l844, when he married Magdalena Kühn, of Waterloo.

The issue of February 23, 1844 of the same paper had his professional card:

Dr. Fr. Delion formerly living at Mr. John Eby's, later at Mr. H. Baumann's in Waterloo, has just moved to the house of Mr. Bossenberger, Greenbush, next to Pastor Bindemann.

A news item on January 28, 1848 tells us that he treated his sister-in-law, Miss Salome Kühn for a tapeworm 1/8 to l/4 inches wide - doubtless interesting reading for her neighbors.

Dr. Gottfried H. Schmutter, a recently arrived German physician, distributed handbills containing a virulent attack on Delion, as well as on Dr. John Scott. The injured parties and the newspaper published rebuttals which responded in kind. In the face of the enmity he had aroused, Schmutter soon left for other parts.

Delion's response was in the February 11th. issue of Der Deutsche Canadier:

Notice

With regard to a public slander about me and another person, from one known as Smutter, in a poster issued by him for distribution, I take the liberty only to explain that this malicious attack against my private life has nothing to do with my practice as a physician, and that in regard to my knowledge as physician, I leave that to the public to decide. That Smutter's poster is an imitation and pretense of the truth from beginning to end, that a malicious character and half deranged intellect has gathered, everyone should perceive for himself.

He made considerable use of the newspapers, notifying the public with regard to daily visits to Waterloo, cautioning of court actions for delinquint accounts, warning trespassers off his property, and admonishing those who had borrowed his books without returning them. He had what must have been a substantial library, some parts of which are still retained by members of his family.

An outspoken announcement appeared in the issue of April 8, 1852 of Der Deutsche Canadiert

I hereby announce that henceforth I will permit medicines to be given out only at my home. The reason therefor may be seen daily at any time in the unpleasant and disagreeable state to be met with in Mr. Henry 'Baumann's house in Berlin.

On January 28, 1853 His card in the Berlin Telegraph gave his location as Woolwich, near Kressler's Tavern. From this time on he conducted a rural practice near Heidelberg, expanding his interests to include some veterinary practice, as is evidenced by one volume of his library which deals with veterinary homeopathy.

He died on October 21, 1869, but the notice provided only the fact of his death. In the case of his wife however, some information is found. She was born in Alsace in 1825, and married in 1844. Some time after his death she moved to Elmira where she lived for twenty five years, until 1907. Of their children still alive were three sons, Frederick, Charles and Henry.

Dr. Alexander D. Campbell, Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925,

Fredrich married Anna Maria Magdalena "Magdalena" Kuhn 28 Jan 1844, Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Anna (daughter of Joseph Kuehn and Catherine Brohman) was born 1824, , France; died 10 Jan 1907, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Maria Magdalena "Magdalena" Delion
• Name: Magdalena Kuhn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25902
• Immigration: 20 Oct 1836
• Residence: 1843, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Catholic
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Elmira Signet: - Mrs Delion, an aged lady, mother of Mr Hy Delion, of the Elmira Advertiser, fell down a flight of stairs last Thursday, fracturing both her arms at the wrist and sustaining other injuries. She is in a precarious condition. Mrs Delion is the mother of Charles and Fred Delion, of Berlin.

The Chronicle Telegraph 12 Dec 1901, p. 3

Immigration:
Departed Normandy, on the ship Normandie to New York City

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• Name: Heinrich Stumpf
• Name: Henry Stumpf
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25826
• Immigration: 1858, , Canada
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1873, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mason
• Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; General Laborer
• Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; stone mason

Notes:

Well-Known Citizen Departe

Not unexpected came the news on Monday morning that Henry Stumpf had passed away during the night for he had been for some days in a very low condition. Deceased was born in 1850 in Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. In 1858 he came to this neighborhood with his mother and brothers, his father having come over the year before. The mother and children then went to live for about a year at Omaha, Nebraska, where the mother and the youngest son, Peter, died of typhoid fever. Then the other members of the family came back to Woolwich, where the deceased hewed out a home for himself in the swamp northeast of this village. In 1873 he chose for himself a helpmate in the person of Mary Gimber, who shared with him for nearly forty years the joys and sorrows the toils and pleasures of life, and who is now left bereft of a kind and faithful husband. To Mr. and Mrs. Stumpf were born eleven children, all of whom survive and are grown up. They are: Casper on the old farm homestead, Sophia (Mrs. S. Schedewitz), Yatton; Katie (Mrs. Henry Delion), of Berlin; Mary (Mrs. John Hilgartner) near Strasburg; Lizzie, Stella and Otto at home; Conrad, at Listowel ; Caroline (Mrs. Arthur Aljoe), near Hanover; Gertrude (Mrs. Arthur Beilstein), Berlin. Of these there were two pairs of twins, namely Stella and Otto, and Conrad and Caroline.

Deceased learned the trade of mason and generally worked at it through the summer months as his work on the farm would allow. Ten years ago he moved with his family to Elmira and here he followed his trade more exclusively taking many building contracts. About four years ago he built the bakery which he conducted in partnership with his eldest son. Later on he took it all over into his own hands and built the fine block now used in connection with the business. As a citizen of Elmira Mr. Stumpf was progressive, fearing not to make investments to help build up the town, and as a business man he spared neither expense nor trouble to have his business up-to-date and to give his customers the best possible service. As a man he was strictly honest and upright in his dealings with his fellow men.

As to his illness, he had several ribs fractured while yet a boy and this injury not having been properly attended to in time caused ulcers on the lung. As years wore on this trouble became worse, and developed chronic bronchitis. Latterly his heart became weak and heart failure was the immediate cause of death.

The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon and was largely attended.

The family have the sympathy of the community in their bereavement.


Elmira Advertiser Aug 25 1910

Johann married Maria Magdalena Gimber 17 Nov 1873, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Maria (daughter of Henry Gimber and Eve Elizabeth Seiler) was born 8 Jun 1850, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 Aug 1940; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria Magdalena Stumpf
• Name: Mary Gimber
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25827
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Occupation: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manager, Bakery
• Residence: 1911, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112814
• Occupation: 1852, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

Joseph — Catherine Brohman. Catherine (daughter of Franz Joseph Brohman and Maria Elizabeth Keher) was born 1805, , Alsace Lorraine, France; died 11 Jul 1893, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Kuehn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-112815
• Immigration: 20 Oct 1836
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

Notes:

Immigration:
Departed Normandy, on the ship Normandie to New York City

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• Name: Johann Heinrich Stumpf
• Name: M. John Stumpf
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25844
• Immigration: 1857, , Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Labourer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

John — Anna Catharine Gerhard. Anna was born 1810, , Germany; died Bef 1881. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Catharine Stumpf
• Name: Catherine
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-113671
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: Bef 1873, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, USA

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213437502
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-115114
• Residence: 1849, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; RC
• Occupation: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]

Henry married Eve Elizabeth Seiler 21 Nov 1849, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Eve was born 1815, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eve Elizabeth Gimber
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-115115
• Residence: 1849, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]