Minnie Alice Elizabeth Ferrier

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• Nationality: , USA
• Name: Minnie Alice Elizabeth Ferrier
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36259
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Immigration: 1919, , Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Notes:

Interesting Letter from California

Miss Minnie Ferrier Writes From Berkley California to her Parents in Berlin Regarding the Earthquake

On Monday afternoon Mr. Ephraim Ferrier and family, of the Market Hotel, received a welcome and interesting letter from their daughter, Miss Minnie Ferrier, formerly stamp vendor at the Berlin post office, who is, visiting Mr. Ferrier's brother and family in Berkeley, California, which is, about twelve iniles west of San Francisco, since last August. Miss Ferrier was visiting Mr. Ed. Schlegel, in San Francisco two or three days before the earthquake, and was coaxed to remain for another week, but she returned to Berkeley, and escaped the excitement and probably fatal injuries by her action. No mention is made of the safety of Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel, who are former Berliners, and up to the present no, word has been received in Berlin. Miss Ferrier writes, in part, as follows:

"We are afraid to light the gas for fear of another earthquake, so am writing by a candle. We are in a dreadful condition. We have packed up almost everything and the children are coaxing to go to Canada. People are getting out of California as fast as possible. They cannot buy tickets fast enough. They say there is to be another shock at five o'clock we are getting ready for it. No sleep for us tonight. Now don't think that we suffered such a heavy loss, we are not the only ones, other people have lost everything, and we were lucky in getting off so easily.

There are 3,000 people killed in San Francisco. You know we can see the city from our back window and was upstairs a little while ago and it is still burning. It looks as though into a roaring furnace. People that have never prayed before in their lives are doing so now. Bodies are lying in the streets in San Francisco and people pass them by, not having time pick them up.

The way the fire started in the city was this: We had the awful big earthquake first, then two smaller ones followed and we have had several little ones since. They always come in threes and when we feel one we know there are more to follow. Well, some person was foolish enough to make a fire in a stove after the earthquake, for you know the chimneys are down all over. People that have gas have to eat cold. Anyhow, this person made a fire after the chimney was off his house, which was near the new Terminus Hotel, and not a great distance from the Ferry building. That is how the big fire started, and it continued spread. You may wonder why they did not extinguish this fire right away and prevent it from spreading, but I will explain. When the earthquake, occurred it broke all the mains so there was no water to be secured in the city. The pipes have since been fixed and they are pouring the water from the ocean on the flames but the fire has got beyond their control. All night long they have been dynamiting all the immense and beautiful buildings to prevent the flames from spreading.

At the grocery they allow only a limited amount to each family on account of the wholesale houses being destroyed and there will be a shortage in provisions, but we have enough in the house to live on for months. We have brought the mattresses downstairs and the rest are sleeping on them and if anything happens I am, to wake them up. Some people have erected tents in their back yards.

In concluding her letter Miss Ferrier states that the people are flocking into San Francisco and have to thing but what was on their backs. Provisions were being sent from all parts of the state and everything was being done to make them confortable, The reports in the papers could not be exaggerated, as the since the earthquake were dreadful and beyond description.

The Chronicle Telegraph 26 Apr 1906, p. 10

Minnie — Dr. William Henry Ferrier. William (son of Robert Ferrier and Anna Magdalena Schmitt) was born 1 May 1881, Drayton, Peel Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario; died 2 Oct 1956; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36257
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Residence: 1882, Bridgeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1882, Bridgeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Brewer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Bar Keeper
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manager, Hotel
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1921, 30 Ellen St. W. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Ephraim married Maria Catharina Stein 19 Sep 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Maria (daughter of Wilhelm "William" Stein and Elizabeth Rothaermel) was born 15 Oct 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 4 Apr 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1940; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Maria Catharina Ferrier
• Name: Mary Stein
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-57448
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Church
• Residence: 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Residence: 1921, 30 Ellen St. W. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Kerusaland

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24912
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; distiller
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of Scotland
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Weaver

Notes:

Thomas Ferrier ran a two story red brick building with stables and was known as "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Located at the intersection of Bridge Street and Bloomingdale road. The building was still standing as of 1940, but its present state or existance is unknown.

Thomas — Alice Kelly. Alice was born 1816, , Ireland; died 1869; was buried , Bridgeport Free Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Alice Ferrier
• Name: Alice Phinney
• Eby ID Number: 00106-6404.3
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Catholic

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• Name: William Stein
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36261
• Immigration: 1856, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; tailor
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Naturalization: 1862
• Occupation: 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; tailor
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Church
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Residence: 1907; New Jersusalem

Notes:

King Street, Kitchener

Benton to Eby Street.-Successive occupation was as follows: From Benton Street easterward, before 1855, a one-story brick building with gable facing King Street was erected at the corner and used by Jacob Benner as blacksmith shop. Later Benner moved to West Montrose and the next occupant was Valentine Gildner and after him his son John Gildner . This blacksmith shop continued until comparatively recent years. A frame building painted white, with veranda in front, was Gildner s residence..

Vacant lot.

A tinsmith shop owned by Mr. Lehnen . This had a nice front with two good-sized glass windows on either side of the door.

A dwelling house built by Henry Rothaermel 1848-9. He was a carpenter and later was market clerk and tax collector.

A lane.

A one and one-half story building, with gable facing King Street and a verandah extending over the sidewalk, occupied by a Mr. Coleman 1855-1860. Adjoining it was a warehouse. The store passed to Coleman's son and then to John Kegel. Later John George Schmidt, shoemaker, occupied the building.

A lane.

A double, frame building about 50 feet along King St.; the east half used as a dwelling had a veranda; the west half was occupied by Charles Koehn, shoemaker.

Open space.

Dwelling of Gabriel Bowman, carpenter, who built the house.

A one and one-half story building occupied by Balzar Allendorf, a coverlet weaver, about 1840. Allendorf later moved to New Hamburg. There was a veranda at the front of the house and under it a well. Cattle ran at large in the streets at this time and one Sunday afternoon a steer got on the veranda floor, which was partly rotted, broke through, fell into the well and had to be pulled out by means of a windlass. The building was torn down later.

frame building ocupied by Henry Sippel, former employee of Allendorf, as a weaver's shop.

In 1855 there was a frame building one and one-half story high along King Street divided into two parts, one part a dwelling and the other part a hat shop, owned by John Kidder, who made felt hats and old-fashioned bonnets. The shop was a few steps above the sidewalk level.

A dwelling.

A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with King street occupied by a widow, Mrs. Caroline Lehnen.

A driveway.

A two story brick building with gable toward King Street, occupied by J. J. Lehnen, son of the widow Lehnen, as a copper and tinsmith shop and a store. Lehnen made his own tinware. Later Jacob Doebler occupied this building as a bakery.

A one and one-half story frame building with gable toward King Street occupied by George Yantz, a cabinet maker. He had a tavern in this same building for a time, and lived there.

In the early years a garden.

A small shop with sloping roof used by Christian Enslin as a book store and book-bindery, the first book-bindery in Berlin Enslm arrived in Berlin about 1830. Jacob Stroh remembers going with his father to the store to buy school supplies. Enslin later was editor, for Henry Eby, the publisher, of the Deutsche Canadier which began publication in 1840.

Enslin's House, one-half story, frame, standing lengthwise with King Street and having a veranda over the door, was on the site of Dr. Hetts present office and house. At the rear there was an orchard.

About 60 feet back of King Street there was a house built by Henry Eby. Shubel Randall, brother of George Randall, lived in it later. In 1860 the building was destroyed by fire and a servant girl Dina Hertz, perished in the flames. The walls remaining standing, the house was re-built, and is still in use.

A brick building, abutting on King Street with gable facing the street, was Henry Eby's printing office. The main floor was she or seven feet above the sidewalk level. In 1860 this building was changed to a church and was the first Anglican Church in Berlin.

A frame building, one end of which was used by Henry Bowman as a general store; he lived in the other end. This was known as the Bowman building. Later William Stein had a tailor shop in it and after him William Thoms used it as a shoe repair shop.

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

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Frederick Street, East Side.

On the corner Millar's store and at its rear a warehouse belonging to it, a two story building with gable toward Frederick Street.

A vacant lot, site of the present Market Building, surrounded by a six foot hoard fence, customary in those days to keep out cattle, which had the freedom of the streets. A one and one-half story frame building with porch in front occupied by Mr. Yeck who died of being bled by a layman when he was Dr. Scott's patient. A man Geiger married the widow and lived in the building.

A small frame building occupied by Geo. Schmidt.

A small frame building occupied by Wm. Stein.

A two story frame building with a small portico painted white over the front door, the house occupied by Thomas Pierce, then Principal of the Central School and later by Herman Rathman.

On the corner, now occupied by Dr. Honsberger's residence, a two story brick building for some time the residence of Sheriff Davidson. Before that, 1840-1860, Jacob Kramer occupied the building as a tavern. Kramer was known as Strumpf Weber (stocking weaver) from a former occupation in a shop on Oueen Street S.

Weber Street. On the corner a large brick building erected by Christian Enslin about 1855 with veranda along the entire Frederick Street front and on it a narrow gallery at the second floor. The building is still in use for stores with the veranda removed. At one time it was occupied as a tavern.

A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with Frederick St. On the easterly corner of what is now Spetz St., a two story brick building, set back somewhat from the street, the house of Peter Rebscher. It had a large sign, "Peter Rebscher Brewer"; in the rear was the brewery, a two story frame building, and a large barn. A later brewer was Jacob Summer and after him, in 1862, Joseph Spetz had the house and brewery until he died.

A vacant lot belonging to John Roth and later to Simon Roy who used it as a nursery for shrubs and rare trees.

The old Central School and grounds, the school now remodelled and greatly enlarged to the present handsome Suddaby School. The Central School building had a belfry on top with at first a small bell and later a larger one. Jacob Stroh rang this bell as long as he attended the Central School, later W. H. Breithaupt had this charge for a time.

A frame building occupied by Yost Kimmel, a carpenter.

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

Occupation:
Listed in the 1864 Directory as a tailor with William Gaul

Occupation:
In the 1884 Directory he is listed as a merchant tailor working on the South Side of King Street in Kitchener.

Wilhelm married Elizabeth Rothaermel 21 Jun 1857, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Johann Henrich Rothaermel and Anna Elisabetha Deichert) was born 12 Mar 1836, Nieder-Ofleiden, , Hessen, Germany; died 30 Sep 1903, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Elizabeth Stein
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36262
• Residence: 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; New Church
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; [Member of New Jersulem Religion]
• Residence: 1903; swedenborgian

Notes:

01Im Jahre Christi Achtzehnhundertsechsunddreißig
02den zwölften März mittags gegen zwölf
03Uhr wurde, nach geschehener glaubhafter
04Anzeige zu Niederofleiden einer zu
05dieser Pfarrey gehörigen Filiale dem
06dasigen Ortsbürger und Butterführer Johann
07Henrich Rothaermel zweyter, Balthasar
08Sohn, von seiner Ehefrau Anna Elisabetha
09geborene Deichert von Oberofleiden das
10dritte Kind, die zweyte Tochter gebo-
11ren und den vierzehnten desselben
12Monats getauft, wo sie den Namen
13Elisabetha erhielt.
14Gevatterin ist des Vaters Schwester
15Elisabetha, des Johann Balthasar Roth-
16aermel daselbst ledige Tochter welche
17gegenwärtiges Protocol nebst dem
18Vater des Kindes und ... (part is indecipherable) Pfarrer,
19welcher die Taufe verrichtet hat, unter-
20schreibt.
21Johann Henrich Rothaermel
22Elisabetha Rothärmelin
23Ernst Welcker


English summary of Birth Record

Elisabetha Rothaermel was born on March 12, 1836, at noon, in a branch-church of Niederofleiden. Her father was the Butterführer (salesman who delivered butter to the villages nearby) Johann Henrich Rothaermel, her mother was Anna Elisabetha Rothaermel, née Deichert. Both parents came from Oberofleiden.
Elisabetha Rothaermel was baptized on March 14, 1836.
The godmother was her father's sister, who was also called Elisabetha.
She and Johann Henrich were the children of Johann Balthasar Rothaermel.
The document was signed by Johann Henrich Rothaermel, the godmother Elisabetha Rothaermel (she signed as "Rothärmelin") and the clergyman of the church, Ernst Welcker.

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40118
• Occupation: 1836, Nieder-Ofleiden, , Hessen, Germany; butter salesman

Johann — Anna Elisabetha Deichert. Anna was born Abt 1806, of, Nieder-Ofleiden, , Hessen, Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Elisabetha Rothaermel
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40129