Walter Sheffield

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-328887
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-63937
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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ARTHUR WELLESLEY SHEFFIELD.

Arthur Wellesley .Sheffield was born in 1853, in the township of Lansdowne, in the County of Leeds, of Methodist parentage, and his early life was spent upon the farm. He entered the dry goods business at an early age and has followed it throughout his life. In Walkerton he conducted a store for eight years, in Berlin he kept a store for three years, and the last five years he has travelled for the wholesale house of Gordon, McKay & Co.

He was converted when about 14 years of age under the preaching of Rev. I. B. Howard, in the Methodist Church of Brockville, where he lived for six or seven years.

For many years Mr. Sheffield was Steward in the Church at Walkerton ; he was also Recording Steward in the Church in Berlin. He has been a quiet worshipper for the last five years in Wesley Church and also a member of the Quarterly Official Board. In 1880 he married Elizabeth Foster in Toronto.

"The Methodist churches of Toronto : a history of the Methodist denomination and its churches in York and Toronto : with biographical sketches of many of the clergy and laity"

Arthur — Elizabeth Forester. Elizabeth was born 1849, , Quebec, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-328886
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist