Wilhelm "William" Braun

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• Name: Wilhelm Braun
• Name: William Brown
• Occupation: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; stone cutter - tombstone maker
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-245625
• Occupation: 1850, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; painter
• Occupation: 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; painter
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; painter
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Painter
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Painter
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Painter
• Residence: 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Painter
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Painter
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Foundry [Ontario Street] to Queen Street- Almost the whole of this block was a spongy swamp, with willow trees along the edge. Cattle could scarcely go into it as they would sink. Up to 1850 there was no building up to Gaukel's Hotel at the corner of Queen Street. Along the street front there was an elevated sidewalk erected on cedar posts with stringers. The sidewalk was about six feet wide and high enough to enable boys to explore underneath as, of course, they used to do. About 1858, Osborne Spiers & Co., erected a three-storey brick building, later known as Spiers' Block, on the Foundry Street corner. The building contained two stores fronting on King Street, one occupied by Wm. Spiers as a grocery and wine and spirit merchant, and the other a dry goods store first occupied by Mr. Stanton and later by W. H. G. Knowles who had been clerk at Stanton's.

The members of the first Berlin band, organized in 1855, had rooms on the third floor of the building and met there for practice, Next to Spiers Block there was for many years a vacant lot and next to that a small, one-storey frame building with gable toward King Street, ten feet back from the street line, used by Wm. Brown, the first stone cutter and tombstone maker in Berlin. He was also painter, paper-hanger, glazer, and dealer in marble and stone. Next to this, about 1856, Lelinen Brothers had a frame building one storey and a half high, occupied as tinsmith shop and store for tinware, the shop being at the rear. In 1860 this building was replaced by the Snyder Block, a narrow, three-story brick building. Frederick Snyder, who had been apprentice at Lehnen Bros., had this building. He was very industrious and in the habit of working until one and two o'clock in the morning when he came to own the business.

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

Wilhelm married Catherine Tuerk 2 Feb 1850, Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine was born 30 Nov 1833, , Ireland; died 31 Aug 1872, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Maria Eleanor Braun was born Nov 1850, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
2. Catharine Elizabeth Braun was born 5 Mar 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 20 Oct 1922, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Joanna Brown was born 1855, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
4. Sophrina Brown was born 1857, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
5. ? Braun was born 1858, , Ontario, Canada; died 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
6. Charles A. Brown was born 1859, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
7. Arthur W. Brown was born 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
8. Georg Alfred Braun was born Sep 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Jan 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
9. Agnes Brown was born 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
10. Walter D. Brown was born 1866, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

Wilhelm married Barbara Elizabeth "Elizabeth" Jung 2 Mar 1873, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Barbara (daughter of Justus Jung and Elizabeth Hahn) was born 17 Dec 1834, Angenroth, Hessen Darmstadt, Germany; died 11 Oct 1913, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. William Henry Braun was born 19 Nov 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 29 Feb 1876, Church Of New Jerusalem, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 6 Nov 1952, Lethbridge, , Alberta, Canada; was buried , Mountain View Cemetery, Lethbridge, , Alberta, Canada.
2. George Alfred Braun was born 17 Jan 1876, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 29 Feb 1876, Church Of New Jerusalem, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Edward Braun was born 18 Dec 1877, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
4. Amsey Leander Brown was born Mar 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
5. Amasa Brown was born 24 Mar 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-448125

Philip — Elizabeth Lenz. Elizabeth died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Elizabeth Brown
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-448126