Samuel Cornell

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34647

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S. CORNELL'S HOTEL

After getting off the cars at Preston we stepped into the comfortable bus running to the North American Hotel. All our travelling readers are acquainted with the "jolly phiz" of the doctor - "mine host" of the North American, and also with the superior quality of his eatables, drinkables and smokeables, so we need say nothing in regard to them.

The doctor informed us that his mineral baths induced such an influx of visitors last summer, that he has found it necessary to make a large addition to his already commodious establishment. He intends erecting a two storey brick building, 30 by 40 feet, as an addition to the hotel, for parlor and bed-rooms, and a promenade balcony 45 feet in length and about 8 feet in width, he also proposes making an addition of several baths - the whole to be completed by the 1st of June. We expect, ere many years, to see the Preston Mineral Baths as popular with us provincials as Saratoga is among our American cousins.

Waterlooo Historical Society Vol. 21, 1933 PRESTON IN 1866 By Dr. A. E. Byerly

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One who will soon be classed among the old settlers of Preston is Christopher Kress, who by his energy and pluck has accumulated considerable property and who has greatly aided in giving Preston a good name as a desirable place of resort for the cure of rheumatism and kindred diseases, through its mineral baths.


The mineral springs were struck by one Peter Erb while boring for salt in 1838, which he never obtained. He placed no value in the sulphur water he had so struck. After abandoning boring, the water of the spring was employed for driving an overshot wheel of a wagon making shop, occupied by one Daniel Hagey, until Mr. Samuel Cornell obtained from Mr. Joseph Erb sufficient land near the spring to erect an hotel. Mr. Cornell with great energy built suitable premises and a bath house with boiler to enable him to furnish hot and cold baths. His undertaking proved successful but death, terminated his career. The property was sold and Christopher Kress became its owner. He greatly enlarged, improved and ornamented it and the invalids who have sought and obtained relief at the Preston mineral baths count by the hundreds.


Waterloo Historical Society 1917.

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• Business: Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Preston Sulphur Baths
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-15715
• Occupation: 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; distiller
• Occupation: 1852, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; inn keeper
• Occupation: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Innkeeper
• Occupation: 1868, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; proprietor of the North American Hotel

Sylvanus married Mary Winger 1841, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born 17 Jun 1820, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 10 Dec 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Cornell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24740
• Birth: 26 Jun 1820
• Immigration: 1835, , Canada
• Residence: 1842, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; W. Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Interesting: life story, misfortune
• Land: Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 08, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34621
• Business: 1838, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; North American Hotel
• Misfortune: 1838; wife dies 24 hours after marriage
• Residence: 1861, Bosanquet Twp., Lambton Co., Ontario

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"Dear Dr. Carroll

Having noticed in the Guardian your request to forward to you any remembrances of the late venerable Father Corson, I send the following: I first saw and heard Mr. Corson in the Township of Waterloo, about a mile and a half above Preston; the ' preaching place' was at a primitive log-house, the residence of the late Samuel Cornell, to which place my parents used to repair weekly for preaching and class-meeting, taking me with them this was about the year 1824 or 1825. Memory now paints Mr. Corson as a light, nimble, tough little man, of about 125 or 130 lbs. avordupoise, with light hair and sharp, sparkeyes. His manner of preaching was quick, bordering on the abrupt; his subjects were generally solemn; his appeals sharp; his applications appropriate; and his proofs always cogent and logical; and, I ought to add, his method generally orderly and systematic. About the time I speak of, I witnessed what, to my young mind, appeared to be a hard test of his muscular ability. At the preaching, a tall, muscular, large-boned Dutchman, lately converted, applied for baptism by immersion at the hands of our little hero. A procession was formed, headed by our preacher, arm in arm with the neophyte, followed by a singing band of brothers and sisters, who sang with power and pathos the old expressive stanza,

'Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry,
We're inarching through Emmanuel's ground,
To fairer worlds on high, &c.'

"Father Corson" or, The old style Canadian itinerant

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Cornell, Samuel of St George; was born in New York state January 8 1784, came to Canada in 1801 and settled in Waterloo where he obtained 600 acres near the present town of Preston. He returned to the U.S. in 1812 and married Miss Hannah Clemons of Madison County, Connecticut in 1813. In 1819 he returned to Canada. His wife died in 1836 and 2 years later married a widow named Smith of Palermo. She died 24 hours later, after that he resided amongst his children. About 6 years ago he fell from his horse at Arkona and broke his leg. He died Friday November 1 1872 at the home of his daughter Mrs J Wait and was buried in the private cemetery on his old farm at Preston.

Christian Guardian 23 January 1873 pgs. 30 '96 31

Samuel married Hannah Clemons 1813, , USA. Hannah was born 11 Sep 1791, of, Waterloo Twp., Region of Waterloo, Ontario; died 13 Oct 1836, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Limerick-Cornell Cemetery, Waterloo Township, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Hannah Cornell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34622

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-75662
• Residence: 1790, Hillsdale, Columbia, New York, United States
• Land: 25 Apr 1808, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 08, Waterloo County, Ontario; Purchase
• Land: 25 Apr 1808, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 09, Waterloo County, Ontario; Purchase
• Land: 25 Apr 1808, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 10, Waterloo County, Ontario; Purchase
• Land: 25 Apr 1808, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 10, Waterloo County, Ontario; Sold to John Cressman 238 acres
• Land: 5 Jul 1822, Waterloo Township - Beasley's Broken Front Lot 08, Waterloo County, Ontario; Sold to Samuel Cornell - 150 acres

Notes:

Sylvanus Cornell was possibly born in Tower Hill, Ninepartners, Dutchess Co., New York. He and his family moved to Hillsdale, New York abt 1787. Moved to Ontario, Canada in 1802 where he bought land in Waterloo Township. He was possibly married 3 times. His wife in 1808 was Joanna