John Herbert Dunham

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00031-2766.5

Other Events:

• Residence: 362 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00031-2766.1
• Residence: 1880, Harriston, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1880, Minto Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Minto Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter Furniture Factory
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Martin Dunham Passes Away in His 65th Year

Another old time resident of Kitchener has passed away with the death on Thursday evening, June 3rd.. of Martin Dunham. 362 Frederick St., In his 65th year.

The late Mr. Dunham had been in failing health for several years and his decline has been particularly apparent since his misfortune in breaking a leg, due to a fall, four years ago. Despite his weakened condition, the deceased was quite active until week ago, when he took to his bed and gradually and peacefully passed into his final rest.

Deceased was born north of Toronto, of United Empire Loyalist stock and came to Kitchener from Harriston over thirty years ago making his home on the John Eby homestead, near the Frederick St. limits. He was well known among the older residents of he city by whom he was always held high regard. For many years he has been a member of the Trustee Board of Trinity Methodist church has been acting in the organization of Chosen Friends.

The funeral of the late Martin Dunham was held on Saturday afternoon services were conducted at the residence 362 Frederick Street at 4 p.m. Rev. J. H. McBain, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church who returned to he city from the conference at Woodstock. He was assisted in the service by Dr. H. W. Cruse, former pastor Trinity Church.

Many friends of the deceased were present. The remains were laid to rest in the East End Mennonite Cemetery


The Chronicle Telegraph (190101), 10 Jun 1920, p. 3

Martin married Magdelena "Maggie" Eby 10 Jun 1880. Magdelena (daughter of John Eby and Rebecca Bricker) was born 19 Apr 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 7 Feb 1929, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Magdelena "Maggie" Dunham
• Residence: 362 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00031-2766
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1880, Clifford, Minto Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1921, 362 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Magdalena Eby, "was born April 19th, 1851. She was married to Martin Dunham, June 10th, 1880. They reside on her father's old place, consisting of a few acres of land with dwelling, which Mr. Eby reserved when he disposed of his farm to the County Council. They have a family of four children, namely: Bertha Mabel, Franklin, Edith, and Herbert (dead)."

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.].

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Mrs. Martin Dunham

Another link with the early days in Kitchener and Waterloo county was broken in the death at the K.-W. Hospital Tuesday morning of Mrs. Magdalena Eby Dunham. relict of the late Martin Dunham in her 78th year. Mrs. Dunham enjoyed good health until about two months ago when she was removed to the hospital.

A daughter of the late John Eby Mrs. Dunham was born on the Eby homestead, Frederick street farm at one time comprising of the house of refuge property a tending to the Five Points. Her father built the Eby homestead and brought Rebecca Bricker there bride in 1837. Mrs. Dunham was born in 1851 and at five years of age was a pupil in the first class at the opening of the old Central school in 1856. Both grandparents came to Waterloo county from Pennsylvania in the first decade of the last century. Samuel Eby settling near the head of Queen street on the road to Bridgeport Bridgeport and Samuel Bricker, who took a dramatic part in trek from Pennsylvania at Chicopee. Mrs. Dunham was of a family of seven....[rest missing]

Waterloo Chronicle, 14 Feb 1929, p. 7

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00031-2760
• Historic Building: 1838, 362 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1838, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• 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:

John Eby, "the second son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Brech) Eby, was born August 7th, 1814. On November 7th, 1837, he was married to Rebecca Bricker who was born September 22nd, 1819, and died May 11th, 1872. They resided on the farm now known as the "Poor House Farm", on which was built, in 1869, by the County Council of the County of Waterloo, the House of Industry and Refuge. The farm is directly east of Berlin, about ten minutes' walk from the Court House. Mr. Eby was married a second time to Nancy Groff (widow), and is now comfortably located in the town of Berlin, Ontario. Of late years, however, he has been so unfortunate as to be totally deprived of his eyesight. He has a family of seven children"


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.].

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On the 6th of March, 1899, in Berlin, Ont., of the infirmities of old age, John Eby, in the 84th year of his age. He was born Aug. 7th, 1814; was married to Rebecca Bricker, Nov. 7th, 1837. She died May 11th, 1872. To this union were born seven children, of whom four survive. After the death of his first wife deceased was married to Nancy Groff. For a number of years previous and up to his death deceased was completely blind. Buried on the 9th in the C. Eby cemetery.

The Herald of Truth , Vol. XXXVI, No. 7, April 1, 1899 - pages 108-110

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John, bought the Poor House farm. The son erected a home in Frederick Street, opposite the House of Refuge. It was made of foot-wide planks, laid one atop the other. In 1837 he married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Bricker, who played a prominent past in the Beasley mortgage snag.

North Waterloo is indebted to the Mennonites for the introduction of the apple-tree and apple-butter. John Eby planted a large orchard and owned a cider-mill. Maryborough farmers drove down and bought wagon-loads of apples from him. The buyers came in one day, stayed over night, and started off the next morning.

Mr. and Mrs. John Eby were the parents of two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Susanna, of 178 Frederick Street, was born in the farm house in 1858. She remembers seeing her mother spinning flax and wool, and of twisting the threads for her. The girls were taught how to bake and sew; and all the children to work and save. Miss Eby often saw the pleasure wagon in which Samuel Bricker brought over the mass of silver to pay for the Mennonite purchase.

Her father built a home (which is still in use) [1937], for his widowed mother, on the east side of Frederick Street, at the Five Points. In 1868 her father sold the County the Poor House farm, retaining only his home and five acres of land. His second youngest child was daughter named Madeline (1851-1929). She was married to Martin Dunham in 1880. Eight years later her father sold to Mr. Dunham the five acres mentioned and moved farther into town. Later on Mr. Dunham subdivided his purchase and sold it for building lots The city renamed part of East Avenue and La Grange Street, Dunham Avenue, in 1933, in honor of this family.

A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 18

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Frederick Street, West Side.

On the site in front of the present Fire Hall, on the street line next to the St. Nicholas hotel, an unpainted frame shed, with an enclosed part at one end where the fireman's hook and ladder truck was kept. In case of fire this truck was generally rushed out by hand, a long rope attached to the pole and a double line of men. After the fire was out they would hire a team to draw the truck back.

An open space.

A small dark yellow frame school building erected in 1834 and later used to store the fire engine.

A wood shed later used as a two-cell lock-up for the village, 1857-60, and probably a little later.

Behind the school house stood an undenominational church erected in 1842. The church had a steeple with a railing around it. About ten years later the building was used for a school room, called the Advanced School. In 1856 it was used for the village council and known as the Town Hall. In 1874 it was used as an engine house, and so continued until the building known as the Market House was built in 1869. After 1874 it was again used as an engine house until the present Fire Hall was built on its site.

A two-story brick building with gable toward Frederick Street and a second story porch along the front erected by Justus Werner about 1850, or 51, still standing. Werner had a waggon shop on the first floor and lived with his family on the second. Later a Mr. Foreman bought the building and had a shoe shop on the first floor for a number of years.

A brick house later occupied by Dr. Mylius when he moved there from his King Street house.

A frame building the house of Henry Knell, the jeweller, later occupied by Mathias Riener, a tailor, who came from Vienna, Austria, and moved here from Breslau.

one-story red frame building a little back of the street line with gable toward Frederick Street, erected about 1838, occupied by Peter Rebscher Senior, the brewer's father.

A one and one-half story frame building, not painted, lengthwise with Frederick Street with ground floor a few steps above the sidewalk, occupied by Mrs. Krug, a widow, and next to it her barn.

A vacant space to Weber Street. The Court House was built in 1852, the registry office later, and still later the present Judge's chambers. Vacant space on Ahrens Street.

On the northerly corner of Ahrens a 1 ½ story brick dwelling parallel with Frederick Street built and occupied by Philip Reichert, a carpenter. His father was a pedler, vending tinware and china, rags and produce. A 1 1/2 story frame building with a small veranda over the front door, the dwelling of Otto Fleischauer, still standing and now on the corner of Otto Street.

Intersection of Lancaster, Frederick and Ellen Sts., long known as the five points. Next, on Frederick Street a double, white frame weather board dwelling, half occupied by Henry Otterbein, the other half by Balzar Schmalz.

Next, the farm house of John Eby with his dwelling directly opposite the House of Refuge. The county bought most of Eby's farm for this latter institution.


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


Med. Note:
For the last few years of his life he was completely blind.

Historic Building:
The Eby-Dunham home was constructed 1838-1840 by John Eby. It is a frame construction and in 1978 was considered to be in good condition. It was much altered in 1887.

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John, bought the Poor House farm. The son erected a home in Frederick Street, opposite the House of Refuge. It was made of foot-wide planks, laid one atop the other. In 1837 he married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Bricker, who played a prominent past in the Beasley mortgage snag.<sup>1a

1a</sup>A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937

John married Rebecca Bricker 7 Nov 1837, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Rebecca (daughter of Samuel Bricker and Rebecca Eby) was born 22 Sep 1819, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 May 1872, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Rebecca Bruecker
• Name: Rebecca Eby
• Eby ID Number: 00016-1346
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Rebecca Bricker,"the seventh child of Samuel and Rebecca (Eby) Bricker, was born September 22nd, 1819. On November 7th, 1837, she was married to John Eby, a farmer. They resided on the farm, now known as the "Poor House Farm," a little east of Berlin where she died May 11th, 1872. To them was born a family of seven children".


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.].

Other Events:

• Residence: 18 Lancaster Street West, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Log house built
• Eby ID Number: 00031-2757
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 003N, Waterloo County, Ontario

Notes:

Samuel Eby, "the sixth son of Michael Eby, was born August 27th, 1785. In June, 1807, he came to Canada with Benjamin Eby, Daniel Eby, David Eby and others. On December 25th (Christmas), 1808, he was married to Elizabeth Brech who was born August 13th, 1789, and died November 28th, 1872. Soon after his marriage he was ordained deacon of the Mennonite Church, which position he held till the time of his death. Their farm was within the present corporation limits of the town of Berlin, Ontario, and their farm buildings were situated a little to the north of the Grand Trunk Railroad, right at the foot of the hill on the east side of the road leading from Berlin to Bridgeport. Their farm is now cut into small town lots. He died January 25th, 1844. They had a family of five children"


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.].

Residence:
Samuel Eby, who bought part of Lot 3, G. C. T., was a cousin of Benjamin Eby and Samuel Eby of Lot No. 18. He espoused Elizabeth Beech, and built a loghouse at the foot of the hill in Lancaster Street, where the Conger coal-office stands. First he cleared off the forest over to the House of Refuge. Later on he sold building lots to incoming villagers. He was a deacon in the Mennonite Church<sup>1a

1a</sup>A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 18

Samuel married Elizabeth Break 25 Dec 1808. Elizabeth (daughter of John Brech and Magdalene Schörg) was born 13 Aug 1789, , Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania; died 28 Nov 1872, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Elizabeth Eby
• Eby ID Number: 00014-1168
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Elizabeth Break, "was born August 13th, 1789. On December 25th, 1809, she was married to Deacon Samuel Eby who was born August 27th, 1785, and died January 25th, 1844. They resided in the town of Berlin where she died November 28th, 1872. To them was born a family of five children, namely: IV Magdalena, IV Abraham, IV John, IV Veronica, and IV Henry B."


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.].

Other Events:

• Honoured: Hero of the book "The Trail of the Conestoga"
• Residence: 555 Riverbank Dr. Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00016-1323
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 126, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 124S, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 054E, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentelman
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Directory: 1864, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 01, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Samuel Bricker,"the youngest son of Peter and Mary (Bear) Bricker, was born July 25th, 1776. He, in company with his brother John and family, Joseph Bechtel and family, and others, came to Canada in spring, 1802. They took up land in Waterloo County, Ontario, near Blair. In autumn, 1802, more than a dozen families had settled within the county. In March 1803, Mr Bricker was obliged to visit "Little York" (Toronto) to transact some private business. While there he received the sad intelligence that the whole of the township of Waterloo was mortgaged.† On his return to Waterloo he informed the settlers of the fact, and in order to prove the report of their friend, the settlers appointed Jacob Bechtel and Samuel Betzner to go to "Little York" and make a though investigation in regard to the mortgage. To their great surprise, they, in making inquiry at the Registry Office, found the report too true and that the amount of the mortgage was $40,000. covering 60,000 acres of land. Mr Samuel Bricker and Joseph Shirk were appointed by the settlers to return to their friends in Franklin, Cumberland, and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania, to make arrangements in raising sufficient money to lift the mortgage, upon which the company still known as the "German Company" was formed. The stockholders entrusted the required sum of money to extinguish the mortgage to Samuel Bricker and Daniel Erb who carried it all the way to Canada on a conveyance. At their return to Canada the money was paid over to the proper parties and thus the mortgage was cancelled. In 1801 Mr. Bricker was married to Rebecca, eldest daughter of John and Rebecca (Hershey) Eby. She was born April 14th, 1781, and died November 4th, 1861. They settled near Chicopee, a little north of Freeport, Ontario, on the east side of the Grand River. Their farm is now in possession of Richard Gehl who is married to a grand-child of old Samuel Bricker. Here they resided until their deaths. His death took place November 15th, 1868, aged 92 years, 3 months, and 29 days. Their family consists of eight children"


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.].

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On the 15th of Nov., 1868, in Waterloo co., Ontario, Samuel Bricker, aged 92 years, 3 months and 29 days. He was buried at Eby's burying ground. Funeral sermons were preached by Abm. Weaver and John Bear, from 1 Thess. 5: 9, 10 and Rom. 6: 7. He was born in Pennsylvania.

Herald of Truth - Volume VI, Number 3 - March 1869 - page 47

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The earliest Crown grants in the area were issued, beginning in 1803. to Samuel Bricker (lot 34. concession 8), Philip Saltberger (lot 35, concession 8). and Benham Preston Pots 32- 35. concession 9). Along with seven other families of the Mennonite faith, these settlers took land grants in Whitchurch Township because they were having difficulty obtaining dear deeds for land they had hoped to buy in Waterloo County near Kitchener. Ontario. Bricker was able to borrow enough money from relatives in Pennsylvania to form joint stock company known as the German Company, and this enabled the families to buy the land in Waterloo County. Eight of these families merely cleared the land in Whitchurch, as required, and sold the acreage within a few years. Samuel Bricker, however, held the property until 1847, when he sold the east half to William Graham. In 1852 he sold the remaining west half of his land to John Grose, whose descendants are still there.

Whitchurch Township, Jean Barkey, Whitchurch History Book Committee.

Samuel married Rebecca Eby 1801. Rebecca (daughter of John Eby and Rebecca Hershey) was born 14 Apr 1781, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 4 Nov 1861, Chicopee (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Rebecca Bricker
• Residence: 555 Riverbank Dr. Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00031-2500
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite

Notes:

Rebecca Eby, "the eldest daughter of John Eby, was born April 14th, 1781, and was married to Samuel Bricker who was born July 25th, 1776, and died November 15th, 1868. In 1802 they moved from Pennsylvania to near Freeport, Ontario, Canada, where they settled on the farm now in possession of Mr. Souder. Here she died November 4th, 1861, leaving a family of eight children."


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.].