Margaret C. Brewster

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-223057
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Business: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Universal Lightning Rod Company
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84153
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Town Cterk, Office
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Winfield Brewster in 1900 read aloud the proclamation that incorporated Hespeler as a town. His father had done the same in 1858 when Hespeler became a village. He operated the Hespeler Fuel Co. and wrote 5 books on the history of Hespeler and the area.


Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [snippet from original text in book]

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The First Automobile owned here was a steam runabout which Jack Farnsworth bought in Brooklyn in September, 1906, and of which he and Charles Phillip Grill and I owned each an undivided one-third share.


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

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When we were closing the office on the evening of November 25th, 1952, I noticed Reginald Prior coming out of the Post Office and called him over and when he came, asked him if he would mind locking the door for me which he kindly did, and then, turning to me he asked what was the big idea and my reply was that some day he would come to know. Now to redeem that promise.

My Father opened the old office at the corner of Queen and Adam Streets on November 25th, 1877, and so, Reggie, when you did me that favor you were locking up Brewster's office after 75 years on Queen Street. And How glad I am it was you and not the Bailiff!

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

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Winfield Brewster entered into the political life of Hespeler when, in 1900, he was asked to read the proclamation which incorporated Hespeler as a town. In doing so he followed in the footsteps of his father, Andrew Jackson Brewster, who performed this duty in 1858 when Hespeler was incorporated as a village. Winfield followed his father in many endeavours. In 1898, he entered the conveyancing and insurance business started by his father in 1877. He was known as one of Hespeler's leading citizens and was instrumental in building up an "outstanding" Patriotic Fund during World War I. He was his father's successor as Hespeler Town Clerk and Treasurer of the Hespeler Public School Board when the elder Mr Brewster died in 1903. Mr Brewster was a Captain in the 29th Waterloo Militia and was a one third owner of the first automobile in Hespeler, a steam runabout purchased in Brooklyn, New York in 1906. Mr Brewster was the primary organizer of both the 1906 and the 1926 Old Boys Reunion and was consulted frequently by the organizers of the 1947 Homecoming. Mr Brewster was the Honorary President of the Hespeler Horticultural Society, operated the Hespeler Fuel Co., and, at one time, headed the Universal Lightning Rod Co. He was also the author of six small books on the history of Hespeler and area. They include "La Rue de Commerce; Queen St. Hespeler, Ontario", "The Floodgate: Random Writings of Our Ain Folk", "Pine-Bush Genealogy", "Hespeler Yarns", "Lot Six in the Third of Waterloo" and "J. Hespeler, New Hope C.W.". Winfield Brewster died 2 Nov 1962 and is buried in New Hope Cemetery.

Cambridge Hall of Fame. (2019). Cambridge.ca. Retrieved 2 March 2019, from https://www.cambridge.ca/en/learn-about/cambridge-hall-of-fame.aspx

Winfield — Hazel Leota Kribs. Hazel (daughter of Louis Pannabaker Kribs and Elizabeth A. "Millie" Cliff) was born 25 Jan 1884, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 7 Feb 1973, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Hazel Leota Brewster
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-54638
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Name: A. J. Brewster
• Name: Andrew Jackson "Jackson" Brewster
• Name: Jackson Andrew Brewster
• Name: Jackson Brewster
• Residence: Methodist
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84147
• Immigration: 1850, , Canada
• Residence: 1862, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Schoolteacher
• Occupation: 1881, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Public School Teacher
• Occupation: 1887, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Notary Public
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Elected Office: 1900, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor of Hespeler
• Public Service: 1900, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hespeler Public School Board
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Convenantist

Notes:

Died. At Hespeler, on Wednesday, March 4th, 1903, at 8 o'clock p.m., Andrew J. Brewster, Aged 67 years. Funeral. On Saturday, March 7th, 1903, at 2 o'clock p.m., from his late residence, Galt Street., to the Hespeler Cemetery. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Hespeler, March 5th, 1903.

Funeral Card

William married Margaret A. "Maggie" Brydon 16 Feb 1865, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of David Brydon and Janet Glendenning) was born 26 Apr 1843, , Dumfrieshire, Scotland; was christened 31 May 1843, Kirkpatrick-Fleming, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died 10 Jul 1936, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maggie Brydon
• Name: Margaret A. "Maggie" Brewster
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84148
• Immigration: 1847, , Canada
• Immigration: 1847, , Canada
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1936, Galt St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

BREWSTER, MARGARET (Nee Brydon)

Mrs. A. J. Brewster, one of Hespeler's oldest and most highly esteemed residents, on the afternoon of July 10, 1936, at her home on Galt Street, in her 94^th year, following an illness of some duration. She was the daughter of the late David Brydon and Janet Glendinning of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, born in 1843. She came to Canada with her parents as a little girl and settled on the farm recently owned by the late John Rahman, on the back road to Galt in 1847. About 1868, she married Andrew Brewster, who came to Canada from Jefferson County, New York State. He predeceased her in 1903. Surviving are Miss Violet, Miss Sadie, Willis and Winfield, at home; W. J. Brewster of Hespeler and Mrs. W. J. Keeler of Winnipeg. One brother, James Brydon, lives in Gravenhurst. The funeral took place on Sunday at 2: 30 (private).

A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

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• Interesting: newspaper, story
• Name: Lewis Kribs
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5106.4
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Christian
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1880, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; editor
• Residence: 1880, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

KRIBS, LOUIS P., journalist, publisher, and author; b. 27 Feb. 1857 in Hespeler (Cambridge), Upper Canada, son of Ludwig (Lewis) Kribs, carpenter, and Elizabeth Pannebecker; m. 1880 Millie Cliff, and they adopted six children; d. 24 March 1898 in Ottawa.

Educated in Hespeler, Louis P. Kribs worked as a youth in the "lumber camps north of Barrie." In the late 1870s he entered journalism as a reporter for the Toronto Globe but soon moved to Barrie to become editor of the Northern Advance. Later he became editor and proprietor of the Bruce Herald in Walkerton. He sold that paper in 1884 and returned to Toronto to join the News under the innovative Edmund Ernest Sheppard*, first as city editor and then, using the pseudonym Henry Pica, as the author of a popular series of articles featuring commentary on events of the day. According to American critic Walter Blackburn Harte, Kribs "did the best work of his life in his struggle to make a success of the News." He left the News and went to Ottawa as parliamentary correspondent for the Toronto Daily Mail for one session, but after that journal renounced the policies of the Conservative government [see Christopher William Bunting], he resigned and edited the Daily Standard in Toronto, a campaign journal established by the Conservatives during the general election of 1887. Kribs next worked for the Toronto World but when the Conservative Empire was founded later in 1887, he became its news editor and afterwards its Ottawa correspondent. He was elected president of the Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1891.

The immensely likeable Kribs was described by newspaperman Hector Willoughby Charlesworth* as a "bulky blonde figure who looked like a German comedian and was nick-named 'The Crown Prince.'" A gifted oboe player, he often whiled away late hours at the Empire, Charlesworth recounted, in "melancholy duets" with James Watson Curran on trombone. His flair for fun, hoaxes, and provocation had earlier buttressed Sheppard's efforts to revitalize the News, but with mixed results. Kribs's false announcement in 1885 that Sir John A. Macdonald had retired caused excitement; however, his unfortunate repetition in print that year of a story that the 65th Battalion of Montreal had shirked its duty in the North-West rebellion led to a libel suit against Sheppard. Four years later, after he had left the News, his dismissal at a municipal campaign meeting in Toronto of John Ross Robertson*'s Evening Telegram as a "ratsheet" almost caused a riot. Though he had shared the social radicalism of William Wallace* and fellow newsmen Thomas Phillips Thompson* and Alexander Whyte Wright* in the 1880s, Kribs was a persistent Conservative in politics. John Stephen Willison* of the Globe, who endured Kribs's gibes in Ottawa at the time of the affair concerning Thomas McGreevy in 1891, charitably recalled Kribs as "devoted to 'the party,' belligerent when his idols were defamed, but so abounding in human kindness that his partisan ferocity had the flavour of comedy." During the federal election campaign of 1891, Macdonald's last, Kribs reputedly coined the party slogan "The Old Man, the Old Policy and the Old Flag."

Like most members of the journalistic fraternity of central Canada, Kribs was an outspoken critic of temperance. In 1892, when the royal commission on the liquor traffic in Canada was appointed, he resigned from the Empire to represent the brewing and distilling interests. He presented a hard-hitting brief to the commission, replete with facts and figures drawn from all over Canada and the United States, to show that "drunkenness is greater, crime is greater, infractions of the law are more numerous, while general prosperity is less under a prohibitive than under a license law." In 1894 he produced a summary of the commission's Report for the Canadian Brewers' and Distillers' Association. As well, Kribs edited the Advocate (Toronto), a journal that represented those interests during the two years that it existed (1894-95).

Although he was an Orangeman, Kribs took up his pen in 1895 in support of the Roman Catholic minority of Manitoba, whose loss of school rights had become a burning national issue [see D'Alton McCarthy]. In a vigorous and able pamphlet he argued that the Canadian constitution embodied compacts guaranteeing the rights of minorities. Parliament's failure to uphold the compact in the case of the Catholics in Manitoba would, in his view, be a "triumph of expediency over right," "a despicable yielding up of the weak to the strong," and contrary to "every rule of British fair play." Kribs thus took high constitutional and moral ground. Archbishop Adélard Langevin* of St Boniface mentioned his pamphlet when he rebuked Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier*, who opposed federal remedial legislation, for not speaking out in support of the minority.
Kribs was ailing for the last few years of his life, evidently from the effects of typhoid fever, and he resided quietly in Weston (Toronto). He nevertheless took an active part in the Conservative election campaign of 1896. He died during a visit to Ottawa two years later and was buried in Hespeler.

Kribs had been prominent as a journalist, particularly in Ontario, and, although he held strong opinions politically, he was highly popular with journalists of all shades of opinion. At his death there were many tributes to both his ability and his genial and benevolent nature. The Globe commented: "The blues used to take wings at the sight of his burly frame and the sound of his friendly voice and hearty laugh. As a writer he was full of force and rollicking humor, but although he might hit an opponent hard and overwhelm him with harmless fun, there was never a suspicion of vemon in his invective or in his mirth. Generous, manly, clear and vigorous in intellect, sound in heart, his death is, in no merely conventional sense, a loss to the community."
Lovell Clark

Kribs is the author of Report of Louis P. Kribs in connection with the investigation held by the Canadian royal commission on the liquor traffic (Toronto, 1894) and The Manitoba school question considered historically, legally and controversially (Toronto, 1895).
NA, MG 26, G, 9, Langevin to Laurier, 11 May 1895; RG 31, C1, 1861, 1871, Hespeler. W. B. Harte, "Canadian journalists and journalism," New England Magazine (Boston), new ser., 5 (1891-92): 437. Daily Mail and Empire, 25 March 1898. Evening News (Toronto), 25 March 1898. Globe, 25 March 1898. Montreal Daily Star, 24 March 1898. Toronto World, 25 March 1898. Canadian men and women of the time (Morgan; 1898). E. E. Eby and J. B. Snyder, A biographical history of early settlers and their descendants in Waterloo Township, with Supplement, ed. E. D. Weber (Kitchener, Ont., 1971), 254. Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles, The revenge of the Methodist bicycle company: Sunday streetcars and municipal reform in Toronto, 1888-1897 (Toronto, 1977). H. [W.] Charlesworth, Candid chronicles: leaves from the note book of a Canadian journalist (Toronto, 1925), 76-81. Cook, Regenerators. J. S. Willison, Reminiscences, political and personal (Toronto, 1919), 120.


Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online 2000 University of Toronto/Université Laval

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DEATH OF LOUIS P. KRIBS.

Ottawa, March 24.- (Special.) - Profound regret is felt in Parliamentary and newspaper circles at the untimely death of Louis P. Kribs, the well-known journalist. Mr. Kribs arrived in Ottawa just a fort night ago, and the day after his arrival was attacked with hemorrhage of the lungs. His condition has varied considerably since then, but this morning he was noticed to be gradually sinking. When death came he was attended by his wife and brother, Mr. W. A. Kribs, M.L.A.

The remains were conveyed to Hespeler by the C.P.R. train to-night, and the funeral will take place in that village on Saturday evening.

There was a representative gathering of M.P.'s and newspaperer men at the station to pay their last tribute of respect to one of the best fellows who ever breathed. The floral offerings from Ottawa friends were numerous, chief among them being a beautiful wreath from Mr. Kribs' old confreres in the gallery.

Sketch of His Career.

Louls P. Kribs was born, at Hespeler, Ont., Fet. 27, 1857. He came from Pennsyivania Dutch stock, his father having emigrated from the "Brotherly Love" State and settled at Hespeler, where he started a milling business in connection with farming. There are several sons in the family, and W. A. Kribs, the Conservative member- elect for South Waterloo, is a brother of deceased.

About 25 years ago L. P. Kribs came down from the lumber camps north of Barrle to "look for a job" in Toronto. He went to The Globe office, and met the late Hon. George Brown, who looked him over think Mr. Kribs did more for the Conservative party in that period than any other one man.

Afterward Mr. Kribs filled responsible positions on The World.

When The Empire was started Mr. Kribs became news editor, but left that position in 1892 to represent the brewers and distillers before the Royal Commission which was appointed to investigate and report as to the desirability of a prohibitory law, his office being to show that prohibition was not desirable.

Later on Mr. Kribs started The Advocate, and when, after about two years, that weekly ceased publication, Mr. Kribs, whose health had become impaired, retired to a private life at Weston, where he has remained for several years. About a year ago he was attacked by a hemorrhage of the stomach, and his life was despaired of, but his vigorous constitution rallied. He was never strong afterwards, however, and his late trip to Ottawa brought on a recurrence which terminated in death.

Among those who worked with him deceased was held in the highest esteem. His was a most benevolent, nature, and many a "poor body" and street walf has been comforted by his unostentatious charity.

Mar 25, 1898-Toronto World

Louis married Elizabeth A. "Millie" Cliff 24 Aug 1880, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles Frederick Cliff and Clarrissa Peak) was born 10 May 1855, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 23 Aug 1944, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210278271
• Name: Elizabeth A. "Millie" Kribs
• Name: Elizabeth A. "Millie" Warner
• Name: Elmira Cliff
• Name: Millie Cliff
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119185
• Residence: 1880, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1920, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-118933

William — Sarah. Sarah was born Abt 1806, of, Jefferson Co., New York; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Sarah Brewster
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-118934

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-9942
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

David married Janet Glendenning 1840. Janet was born CALC 12 May 1810, , Dumfrieshire, Scotland; died 21 Feb 1889, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Janet Brydon
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-9943
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Business: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Kribs Saw Mill
• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105757927
• Interesting: contractor, business, bridge, public service, story, builder, politics
• Name: Louis Kribs
• Name: Ludwig Kribs
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5106.1
• Historic Building: Abt 1850, 4860 Townline Rd, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Christian
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Elected Office: 1880, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Reeve of Hespeler
• Elected Office: 1883, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Warden for the County of Waterloo
• Occupation: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Retired: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Died In Hespeler, on Wednesday, March 11th, 1908, at 11.30 o'clock a.m., Lewis L. Kribs, In his 79th year. Funeral Will take place from his late residence, Cooper St., Hespeler, where services will be held, on Friday, March 13th, at 2 o'clock p.m., leaving residence at 2.30, to the Hespeler Cemetery for interment. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Hespeler, March 11th, '08

Funeral Card of Lewis L. Kribs

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Lewis Kribs was born in Eramosa Township on December 1, 1829, the son of Aaron Kribs. A carpenter by trade, Mr. Kribs soon developed a solid reputation as a skilled builder of public buildings and bridges. It was reported that all the major buildings in Hespeler were the product of his master mind as a contractor. Knox's Presbyterian Church in Galt was built under his supervision and he assisted in the construction of the Grand Trunk Railway bridge in Hespeler in 1860. In about 1864 Mr. Kribs went into the sawmill business, operating it for about eighteen years before passing it to his son William A. Kribs in about 1882 and turning his talents to flour milling. Lewis Kribs operated the Holm flour mills, located two miles north of Hespeler, for seventeen years. Here he introduced the roller system of milling, enlarged the building and added steam power where before there had been only water power. He retired from business in 1899 leaving the operation of the mill to his son William A. Kribs. Also active in local politics Mr. Kribs acted as Hespeler's first town clerk from 1859 to 1866 and served as the the village tax collector from 1859 to 1865. He served as reeve of Hespeler from 1881 to 1884, as reeve of Waterloo Township and as warden of Waterloo County. Mr Kribs died on March 11, 1908 and is buried in New Hope Cemetery. Kribs St. perpetuates the memory of both Mr. Kribs and his son William A. Kribs.

Cambridge Mosaic, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge

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LEWIS KRIBS, Reeve of the Village of Hespeler, is a native of Eramosa Township, Wellington County, where he was born in 1829. His father, Aaron Kribs, was also a native of Canada, though of German extraction. Mr. Kribs, on arriving at his majority, acquired the trade of a carpenter, and for a considerable period engaged extensively in contracting and building. He at present conducts saw, shingle, and planing mills in Hespeler, and owns as well two fine farms in the vicinity, aggregating 450 acres. His experience as a municipal legislator has been quite extended, embracing a period of membership in the Waterloo Township Council, during a portion of which he occupied the Reeve's Chair, and, since his removal to Hespeler, a term in the Reeveship of that village. Mr. Kribs is a Conservative in politics, an active and influential man in political campaigns, and holds a high position in the local councils of that party.

Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsell & Co., Toronto, Ont. 1881

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Kribs, Lewis, contractor and builder. Born in Eramosa Tp., Wellington County, 1829. Settled here, 1846 Is present Reeve of village.

Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsel & Co., Toronto - 1881 (Village of New Hespeler entries)

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Lewis Kribs from 1853 worked here by the day as a Carpenter and from 1859 he and Ephraim Panabaker, working together, took contracts for building houses, etc. In 1863 he purchased the Oberholtzer saw mill and moved it to Forbes Street and older people will remember the huge piles of logs that accumulated during the sleighing season on the hill above the mill.

Being then in a position to do his own sawing and mill work, Mr. Kribs was able to handle much larger jobs and in due course came to be known as one of the leading general contractors in this area. On some of his large jobs he sublet some of the work, Carpentry often to Archie Brydon, Masonry to Christian Pabst.

Let me now digress; Jacob Hespeler was Reeve for 4 years; John Chapman for five; Lewis Kribs for five; A. W. Brodie for one; George D. Forbes for thirteen, and William McVittie for three and one-half years. Prior to their election to the high office of Chief Magistrate none of these Gentle-men had had any previous Municipal experience here as Councillor.

This indicates the confidence held by the citizens at these different periods, in the business ability, the Probity, the Integrity of these good men. The high regard in which they were held by their fellow citizens. And I add that during one of his terms of office as our Reeve, Mr. Kribs was also Warden of the County of Waterloo.

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

Historic Building:
3 story stone mill first begun as a sawmill in 1850 by Peter Holm, later Lewis Kribs became owner and ran as a flour and grist mill.

Lewis married Elizabeth Pannabaker 11 May 1852, Trinity Anglican Church, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Abraham "Abram" Pannabecker and Sarah Ann "Sally" Clemens) was born 26 Jan 1832, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Sep 1906, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105758068
• Name: Elizabeth Kribs
• Eby ID Number: 00087-5106
• Residence: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Christian
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Notes:

Elizabeth Pannebecker, "is married to Lewis Kribbs, contractor and builder, and also miller. They reside in Hespeler."


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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Died In Hespeler, on Friday, September 21st, 1906, at 5.30 o'clock p.m., Elizabeth Panabaker, Beloved wife of Lewis Kribs, In her 75th year. Funeral Will take place from her late residence, Cooper St., Hespeler, where services will be held, on Monday, September 24th, at 2.30 o'clock p.m., to the Hespeler Cemetery for interment. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation. Hespeler, September 22nd, 1906.


Funeral Card of Elizabeth Panabaker

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27602
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Infidel
• Occupation: 1871, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wool Manufacturer

Notes:

Weaver Street by Lary Turner

This is another in a series concerning Hespeler's street names. Weaver Street is named for a very prominent family in Hespeler's history. William Henry Weaver was born in Waterloo Township on August 19th, 1849. At age 16, William had finished school and his parents were eager to see him started in some business that would provide a future for him. His father went to see his friend, Shubel Randall, to discuss taking young William on as an apprentice at the woolen mill just started by Mr. Randall, his brother George and their cousin Herbert Farr (Randall, Farr & Company). Shubel Randall contacted the mill manager, Mr. Charles Cliff, and asked him to take the young lad under his wing and teach him the textile business. After assurances that the boy was all right in every way, Mr. Cliff agreed to take him on as his apprentice. Fearing that the young lad

would become lonely and homesick growing up in a boarding house, it was decided that William would live with the Cliff family. Thereby Mrs. Cliff could keep a better eye on him and Mr. Cliff could accelerate his learning of the textile business. William learned fast and extremely well and as the years went by, more and more of the day- to-day running of the big mill fell on his shoulders. By 1880 he had become the mill manager and retained that position for the next fifty years...

Hespeler Happenings Winter 2010

Charles married Clarrissa Peak 21 May 1849, St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan, USA. Clarrissa was born 1831, Pickering Twp., York Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Clarrissa Cliff
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-27603
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Skeptic