Peter George Stauffer

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-270454

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• Interesting: military, business
• Military: WW2
• Name: R. C. Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-414372

Notes:

"Richard Clive Stauffer was born in Galt on Jan. 2, 1922, the son of Clive Bowman Stauffer and Jean Davidson Aitkin. Mr. Stauffer joined the Highland Light Infantry of Canada in 1940, attaining the rank first of Lieutenant and, later, of Captain. He led his troops in the D-Day landing in Normandy and 4 weeks later was seriously wounded during the successful 12 hour battle for the French town of Buronon July 8, 1944. In 1953 Mr. Stauffer purchased the assets of T. A. Rutherford and Son Fuels and changed the company name to Stauffer Fuels. In 1956 Mr. Stauffer's company amalgamated with Galt Fuel and Supply Co.Ltd. to create Stauffer Quality Fuels Ltd. In 1960 another amalgamation took place, this time with Roos Fuels Company Ltd. to form Stauffer-Roos Fuels which was located at 101 Ainslie St. S. Mr. Stauffer died at Saugeen Memorial Hospital in Southampton on Sept. 22, 1988 and is buried in Mount View Cemetery."

Cambridge Mosaic

Richard — Catherine Isabelle "Isabelle" Scott. Catherine (daughter of Emerson Dean "Dean" Scott and Anna Jessie Wilhelmina "Ann" Hood) was born 17 Feb 1927, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 30 Aug 2018, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Isabelle "Isabelle" Stauffer
• Name: Isabelle Scott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-414371
• Residence: 1970, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Catherine Isabelle Stauffer

FEBRUARY 17, 1927 \endash AUGUST 30, 2018

Catherine Isabelle Stauffer passed away peacefully with her family by her side on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at the age of 91.
Isabelle was a stylish, classy, and independent woman, but we will remember her most for her caring spirit and abundant generosity. She volunteered her time delivering food with Meals on Wheels, and belonged to Cambridge PROBUS and the Silver Star Society. Isabelle loved to play golf even in her senior years, and was a member of the Galt Country Club. She was also a longtime member of Wesley United Church. Isabelle will be dearly missed and lovingly remembered by her sons Joe Stauffer, Scott Stauffer (Karen), and Cam Stauffer (Cathie), daughters Margo Riches (Steve), Cathy Welsand (Arnie), and Martha Muir, 18 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, her brother Jack, and her daughter-in-law Rae Stauffer (son Peter - deceased). She was also predeceased by her husband Richard, parents Anne and Dean Scott, sisters Marg and Janet, and her grandson Graeme. The family wishes to thank the people at Granite Landing for their wonderful care of Isabelle. Cremation has taken place and a private family service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations to Meals on Wheels would be appreciated by the family.

"Catherine Stauffer Obituary - Cambridge, ON". 2022. Dignity Memorial. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/cambridge-on/catherine-stauffer-7977466.

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1759.4
• Grave Photograph - Find A Grave: Clive Bowman Stauffer
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller, Robe Works
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Clive — Jean Davidson Atkin. Jean (daughter of George Turnbull Aitken and Ellen Pringle Scott "Nellie" Dunn) was born 16 Jun 1886, , Ontario, Canada; died 24 Feb 1970; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Jean Davidson Stauffer
• Name: Jeannie Aitkin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63032
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Saleslady, Jewellery Store
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Birth: Moorefield, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada
• Military: WW1
• Occupation: Employee of Canadian Westinghouse Ltd.
• Residence: Presbyterian
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-414368
• Occupation: 1926, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Occupation: 1969; Employee of Rooke Photo Finishing Ltd.

Notes:

Dean Scott

GALT, The funeral for E. Dean Scott, 65 Harris St., Galt, who died at his summer home, in Southampton, Sunday, at the age of 73, will be held at Little's Funeral Home, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. Rev. R. A. Jackson will officiate. Interment will be in Mount View cemetery. Mr. Scott was born in Moorefield and was a resident of Galt, for 60 years. He was employed by Canadian Westinghouse Ltd., 38 years before joining Rooke Photo Finishing Ltd., two years ago. He retired in June this year. He was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church. He served in the First World War with the 129th and 123rd Battalions. Surviving are his wife, the former Ann Hood; one son, John of Galt; three daughters, Mrs. R. C. (Isabelle) Stauffer of Galt, Mrs. William (Janet) Gibbs of Brantford, Mrs. Neil (Margaret) Armstrong of Sarnia; one brother, William G. Sims of Niagara Falls, N.Y. and two sisters, Nelle Scott of Kitchener and Mrs. Eda Cadman of Montreal.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 13 Jul 1970 pg 25

Emerson married Anna Jessie Wilhelmina "Ann" Hood 7 Aug 1926, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Anna (daughter of John T. Hood and Katie McPherson) was born 6 Jan 1904, Sheffield, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Jessie Wilhelmina "Ann" Scott
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-414369

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• Interesting: business, story
• Eby ID Number: 00002-258.4
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Robe Works
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1936, Aberdeen Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

"Joseph Stauffer Passes at Galt - Prominent Industrialist Was Self-Made Man: Suffered Two Strokes

(Galt) Joseph Stauffer, prominent industrialist and descendant of a pioneer Waterloo county family, died this morning at his residence here. He was in his 83rd year and was quite active until Sunday evening when he suffered a slight stroke followed by a more severe one Monday morning from which he failed to rally.

He was president of Newlands and Company, Limited, vice-pres. of Stauffer Dobbie Ltd., vice-pres. of the Galt Art Metal Company and a director of the Waterloo Fire Insurance Company. He was born near the village of Doon, his parents natives of Waterloo county. His grandparents originally from Switzerland, came to Waterloo county from Pennsylvania in 1802.

Joseph Stauffer was a self-made man. His father died when he was but 11 months old. He came to Galt as a youth and went into the livery business.

In 1891 he joined the Newlands firm as a traveller and seven years later became a partner in the firm in which he was active until his death.

He was a staunch Conservative and was noted as an after dinner speaker and story teller. He was greatly interested in the work of the Waterloo County Historical Society and contributed much valued early history of the county. He is survived by three sons and one daughter, Claude and Joseph of Toronto, Clive of Galt, and Mrs. Alex Logan of Vancouver."

KW Record obit. of Tues., Feb. 18, 1936

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"Biography-JosephStauffer"

"Joseph Stauffer, the subject of this sketch was born near Doon in 1852 and died in Galt on Feb. 18th, 1936, in his 84th year.

Joseph Stauffer was the son of Joseph Stauffer, Sr. and Nancy Bowman. His ancestor left Switzerland for Germany and thence migrated to the United States, settling in Pa. about 1738. In 1802 his pioneer forefather located on a farm near Doon. The father died when Joseph was but eleven months old. The mother later moved to Blair and from there to Sheffield, where Joseph grew to manhood.

Joseph Stauffer's first business venture was a partnership with the late John Sipes of Galt where they conducted a livery business for 12 years.

In 1891 Mr. Stauffer joined the firm of Newlands and Company Limited as salesman. His success on the road was such that he was admitted to membership in this firm and later became president of the company, which position he held until his death.

In 1903 Mr. Stauffer and the late Andrew Newland organized another textile plant known as the Galt Robe Company, Limited, which firm later became the Stauffer-Dobbie Company, Limited.

Mr. Stauffer was also Vice-President of the Galt Art Metal Company, director of the Waterloo Fire Insurance Company, local Vice-President of the Waterloo Historical Society and for a number of years a member of the Galt City Council.

Mr. Stauffer in spite of having started at the bottom of the ladder nevertheless succeeded in each of his various enterprises against all obstacles, and achieved noteworthy objectives in the wide field of his activities. These were not by any means confined to commercial or financial interests only but included the broader realm of success fulliving.

Mr. Stauffer was a man beloved of his family. He had a keen, active and generous interest in the community in which he lived. His political sagacity was outstanding and his patriotism with respect to Canadian and British institutions was sincere and worthy of emulation.

In his business undertakings, so widely diversified, his successes wer enot only gratifying from the standpoint of personal prowess but also in the enriched regard and respect which he won from those associated with him and from those with whom his business was conducted.

Mr. Stauffer's partner in life was the late Lena Clemens, daughter of Oliver Clemens of Blair, also deceased. Mr. Stauffer's family comprised three sons and one daughter.

Few descendants of our early settlers took as much interest in their ancestral family history as did Mr. Stauffer, who, after visiting Pennsylvania to learn what he could of the family tree, spent severa lmonths in Switzerland in 1925 and visited the home of his forebears. He succeeded in tracing the history of the Stauffer family back for a period of eleven hundred years. Incidentally he found three representatives ofthe family had in their time held responsible positions in the government after Switzerland became a republic.

Among the traditions of the Stauffer family in America is the record of the coming of the first Stauffers from Muckenhauserhof, Wurtemberg, Germany, whither members of the family had fled during earlier years to escape the persecution of non-conformists in Switzerland.

While in Germany, Maritn Stauffer had determined to emigrate and settle in America but a fatal illness overtook him before his plans could be carried out. Upon his death bed he urged his young sons to take their mother to America with them as soon as possible after his demise. This was done but the difficulties of a journey of several hundred miles were increased by the fact that the mother was crippled. Due to the small resources of the family, the sons were obliged to improvise a wheel chair or hand wagon in which they personally conveyed their mother several hundred miles from this far inland part of Germany to the seaport fromwhich they secured passage to Pennsylvania." (contributed by C.T. Groh)

Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1936 pg. 237-238 on pg. 239

Joseph — Magdalena "Lena" Clemens. Magdalena (daughter of Oliver Clemens and Elizabeth Helrigel) was born 25 Mar 1855, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Feb 1925; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Lena Clemens
• Name: Magdalena "Lena" Eschleman
• Name: Magdalena "Lena" Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1759
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Magdaline Clemens, "was born March 25th, 1855. She was first married to Joseph Eshelman and after his decease to Joseph Stauffer. They reside in the town of Galt. She had one son with her first husband named VIII Oliver (dead), and with the second husband she has twin boys named VIII Clive and VIII Claude."

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. Joseph Stauffer-born Lena Clemens, Mar 25 1855 Mannheim, Waterloo Co. ON, daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth Clemens, married 1882 to Joseph Stauffer, died Feb 9 1925, buried Feb 11 1925 Mausoleum, Mountainview Cemetery, Galt ON. Survived by husband and children: Clive B., Claud C., Joseph S., and Mrs. Alex Logan. Husband presented Wesley Church with silver communion set in her memory, children presented walnut communion table^.

Christian Guardian Newspaper, May 20, 1925

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• Name: George Turnbull Aitkin
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-420341
• Occupation: 1885, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; saddler
• Occupation: 1886, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; harness maker
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Harness Maker
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1892, Cameron St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Aitkin, George

It is our sad duty this week to chronicle the death of one of our best citizens, Mr. George Aitkin, which took place on Saturday evening, at the family residence, on Cameron St. Mr. Aitkin was born in Lilliesleaf, Roxfordshire, Scotland, in 1860. He came to Canada and settled in Galt about 1880 and worked for some time for Saunders & Cranston, at the harness-making business, after which he bought out Mr. R. Murray, who moved away, but who returned again and they entered into a partnership, which they continued until Mr. Artkin's health became bad and he sold out to Mr. Murray. Of late years he has been employed in the office, (when his health permitted) of Mr. F. G. Allenby. He was married in 1884 to Miss Nellie Dunn, daughter of Mr. J. P. Dunn, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who survives him, together with three children, two girls and a boy, aged six, four and one year. The funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon and was followed to the grave by a large number friends and relatives.

The Dumfries Reformer 30 Sep 1892 pg 1

George married Ellen Pringle Scott "Nellie" Dunn 14 Feb 1885, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ellen was born 16 Aug 1862, Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario, Canada; died 24 May 1937, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 27 May 1937, Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Ellen Pringle Scott "Nellie" Aitken
• Name: Nellie Dunn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-221244
• Residence: 1885, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1892, Cameron St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Dress Maker, at Home
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1916, 113 West Main St. S., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: CA 1916, 113 West Main St. S., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1937, 15 Oak St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-476483

Daniel — Jennie Dean. Jennie was born CA 1865; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-476484

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-476486

John — Katie McPherson. Katie was born 1874, Crieff, Puslinch Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 9 Jan 1970, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-476487
• Residence: 1970, 65 Harris St., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

HOOD, KATIE (Nee McPherson)

At South Waterloo Memorial Hospital, on Friday, January 9, 1970, of 65 Harris St. in Galt, in her 96^th year. Widow of John T. Hood (Aug. 1944). Mother of Ann (Mrs. Dean Scott) of Galt; and James I. Hood of Toronto. Also survived by four grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. Born in Crieff, she was a daughter of the late James McPherson and Ann McDonald. She had lived in this area all her life. She came to Galt twenty-five years ago to live with her daughter, after living in Sheffield for forty-five years. Mrs. Hood was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and a member of the Women's Missionary Society and the Ladies Aid Society of the church. She was also a charter member of the Sheffield Women's Institute. Service at Little's Funeral Home, 29 Grand Ave. N. in Galt on Mon., Jan. 12^th at 2. Rev. R. A. Jackson of Knox Presbyterian Church officiated. The honorary pallbearers were: a grandson, Jack Scott; five great-grandsons, Bill Gibbs; Joe, Scott, Cam and Peter Stauffer. Interment Mount View Cemetery.


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