Waterloo Region Generations
A record of the people of Waterloo Region, Ontario.

Alexander Galt Mowat

Male 1878 - Yes, date unknown


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  1. 1.  Alexander Galt Mowat was born 7 Mar 1878, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of James Gordon "Jim" "Moses Oats" Mowat and Fannie Elizabeth Simpson); died Yes, date unknown.

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    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-100784


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James Gordon "Jim" "Moses Oats" MowatJames Gordon "Jim" "Moses Oats" Mowat was born 1850, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada (son of Alexander Henderson Mowat and Barbara Campbell Cairncross); died 21 Apr 1906, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.

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    • Interesting: newspaper, weather
    • Name: J. G. Mowat
    • Name: Moses Oates
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-100781
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; FC
    • Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Schoolteacher
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
    • Occupation: 1875, The Reformer Newspaper, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; newspaper publisher The Reformer
    • Occupation: 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; printer
    • Occupation: 1875, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Publisher of the Galt Reformer
    • Residence: 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
    • Occupation: 1881, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Editor
    • Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; journalist

    Notes:

    Samuel Hutchinson was proprietor and publisher of the Reformer for only a short time. The Anderson Brothers appeared as editors and proprietors of the newspaper for the first time as of the January 7, 1874 issue. Before the year was up, there was to be yet another change in the ownership of the newspaper. The Anderson Brothers announced in the December 23, 1874 issue of the Reformer that effective, January 1, 1875, James Gordon Mowat and Company would take over proprietorship of the newspaper. James G. Mowat was well known, not only as the editor and proprietor of the Reformer, but as a weather prophet for the Toronto Globe, and as an author of many humorous sketches under the pseudonym of "Moses Oates." He is reported also to have published almanacs.

    The acknowledgment of the new ownership of the Reformer on the mast head of the publication began as Mowat & Co., Publishers, to be changed in December 1876 to J.G. Mowat & Co., Editors and Publishers, and then changed again in February 1881 to the first designation of Mowat & Co., Publishers. Another change took place during Mr. Mowat's ownership in December 1879 when the name of the newspaper became just the Dumfries Reformer, the name no longer bearing the extension of and Waterloo County Commercial and General Advertiser.
    Ownership of the Reformer by Mowat & Co. ceased as of Thursday, May 19, 1881 when James Young, who had been owner and publisher from 1853 to 1863, once again acquired ownership of the newspaper.

    THE DUMFRIES REFORMER"Public Opinion is the Great Pillar that Upholds the Commonwealth" Rosemary Ambrose, Kitchener, Ontario 2001

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    Mowat, J. G. & Co., editors and proprietors Dumfries Reformer. The firm is composed of J. G. Mowat and John Collis, the former of whom was born here, 1851, and the latter in Scotland, 1858.

    Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsel & Co., Toronto - 1881

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    The first editor of The Canadian Magazine (which later ceased publication) was J.G. Mowat, a native of Galt, whose family later moved to Berlin where he attended Central School and the Berlin High School.

    His literary interests and abilities led him to become a journalist and from 1874 to 1881 he was editor of the Galt Reformer . He then joined the staff of the Toronto Globe and in 1893 became associated with the Canadian Magazine . Mowat's humorous sketches, which he published under the pen name of " Moses Oates," were widely read. He also became known as a weather prophet, publishing a number of almanacs.

    Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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    King Street, Kitchener


    Cedar to Albert Street.

    At the corner Enoch Ziegler's carriage factory, a good-sized and well-known shop which continued for many years.

    A brick building, one story and a half, lengthwise with King Street, occupied by Yost Stroh as shoemaker shop and dwelling. Later this was made into a two story building.

    Next an open space,

    A two story frame building, crowned with a bell tower, with a boiler house and engine in the rear. The bell is said to have been cracked on a New Year's night by too violent ringing. In any event its sound was impaired. The building as a factory was at one time operated by Cornell & Bowman. It changed tenants from time to time and occasionally was idle. In 1867 Henry Strieker used it as a woolen mill and William Simpson used it at one time. The building was unpainted. It was eventually destroyed by fire.

    Another factory building with gable toward King Street and a one story veranda in front.

    A two story brick dwelling, well back from the street, occupied by A. H. Mowat, general agent and Deputy Clerk, He was the father of Jim Mowat, known as Moses Oates and, as a weather prophet, active on the Toronto Globe for some years. Jim Mowat was a school mate of Jacob Stroh at the Central School. He published almanacs and was known throughout the province.


    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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    "MOSES OATS" PASSES AWAY

    GORDON MOWAT, FORMERLY OF BERLIN, SUCCUMBS PNEUMONIA IN TORONTO.


    Toronto, April 22. J. Gordon - Mowat, probably better known by his pen name, "Moses Oates," died or Saturday at the General Hospital, after only a few days illness from pneumonia. Twenty years ago he was a prominent figure in literary and journalistic circles in and about Toronto. His funeral, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, takes place to Prospect Cemetery from 282 Borden street Rev. W. G. Wallace, of Bloor Street Presbyterian Church, will conduct the services.

    The late Mr. Mowat began his journalistic career in Galt, where he ran The Galt Reformer, while he was also connected with The Berlin 'Week ly Telegraph and The Waterloc Chronicle. He came into prominence in 1878 by his work for Sir John Macdonald in articles on the possibilities of the cotton industry. He was parliamentary reporter on The Globe and was also an editorial writer ol the staff of The Empire. The late Mr. Mowat was the founder of The Lake, a magazine which afterwards merged into the Canadian Magazine and wrote considerably on meteorology, a subject of great interest to him and from which he gained quite a local reputation as a weather prophet. He was 55 years old. A son and daughter, resident in Toronto, survive.

    The late Mr. Mowat was well am favorably known in Bertin, having taught school here in the early seventies, as well as taking an active interest in the Y.M.C.A., which was in a flourishing condition at that time. He was a son-in-law of Mr. Willin Simpson, of Berlin.

    The Chronicle Telegraph 26 Apr 1906, p. 10

    James married Fannie Elizabeth Simpson 4 Feb 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Fannie (daughter of William Simpson and Elizabeth Aldous) was born Jun 1854, , Ontario, Canada; died 1944, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Fannie Elizabeth Simpson was born Jun 1854, , Ontario, Canada (daughter of William Simpson and Elizabeth Aldous); died 1944, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Fannie Elizabeth Mowat
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-100782
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Residence: 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1875, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Children:
    1. Laura Elizabeth Mowat was born 22 Dec 1875, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    2. 1. Alexander Galt Mowat was born 7 Mar 1878, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  Alexander Henderson Mowat was born 1813, Lerwick, , Shetland, Scotland; died 18 Oct 1902, , Lanark, Scotand.

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    • Name: A. H. Mowat
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119812
    • Occupation: 1852, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant
    • Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; FC
    • Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Insurance Agent
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

    Notes:

    King Street, Kitchener

    Cedar to Albert Street.

    At the corner Enoch Ziegler's carriage factory, a good-sized and well-known shop which continued for many years.

    A brick building, one story and a half, lengthwise with King Street, occupied by Yost Stroh as shoemaker shop and dwelling. Later this was made into a two story building.

    Next an open space,

    A two story frame building, crowned with a bell tower, with a boiler house and engine in the rear. The bell is said to have been cracked on a New Year's night by too violent ringing. In any event its sound was impaired. The building as a factory was at one time operated by Cornell & Bowman. It changed tenants from time to time and occasionally was idle. In 1867 Henry Strieker used it as a woolen mill and William Simpson used it at one time. The building was unpainted. It was eventually destroyed by fire.

    Another factory building with gable toward King Street and a one story veranda in front.

    A two story brick dwelling, well back from the street, occupied by A. H. Mowat, general agent and Deputy Clerk, He was the father of Jim Mowat, known as Moses Oates and, as a weather prophet, active on the Toronto Globe for some years. Jim Mowat was a school mate of Jacob Stroh at the Central School. He published almanacs and was known throughout the province.


    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

    Alexander — Barbara Campbell Cairncross. Barbara (daughter of Rev. James Cairncross and Hannah Hedley McKay) was born 27 Jul 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; was christened 1 Sep 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; died 11 May 1902, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Barbara Campbell Cairncross was born 27 Jul 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; was christened 1 Sep 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland (daughter of Rev. James Cairncross and Hannah Hedley McKay); died 11 May 1902, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Barbara Campbell Mowat
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119813
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; FC
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

    Children:
    1. Hannah Mowat was born 1848, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    2. 2. James Gordon "Jim" "Moses Oats" Mowat was born 1850, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Apr 1906, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Prospect Cemetery, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.
    3. Alexander Robert Mowat was born 1854, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1913, Vancouver, , British Columbia, Canada.
    4. John Arthur Mowat was born 1856, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    5. William Walter Henderson Mowat was born 6 Jun 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died , , Alameda Co., California.
    6. Edmund Cairncross Mowat was born 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Dec 1918, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.
    7. Christina Henderson Mowat was born 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

  3. 6.  William SimpsonWilliam Simpson was born 28 Oct 1831, North Cave, Yorkshire, England; was christened 1 Dec 1831, North Cave, Yorkshire, England (son of Martin Simpson, Sr. and Ann Elizabeth "Eliza" Tindall); died 29 Oct 1912, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Building: 117 King St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Simpson Block
    • Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Simpson Company
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95398P
    • Immigration: 1832, , England
    • Immigration: 1832, , Ontario, Canada
    • Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cabinet Maker
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
    • Elected Office: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener
    • Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cabinet Maker
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Possessions: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Furniture manufacturer
    • Residence: 1911, 137 Ontario St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Retired: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

    Notes:

    Fifty-Six Years in the Furniture Business in Berlin

    Berlin is the Furniture Centre of Canada ; more Furniture and Better Furniture is made in Berlin than any other section of the Dominion. The Interview comes with added force on the eve of our Cityhood Celebration

    An Interview with William (Daddy) Simpson ; known as the Father of the Furniture Industry

    Thousands of our citizens for years have noticed a kindly faced, unobtrusive, indeed retiring man around our city; a man who, looks young when his eyes glisten, a man who has to be spoken to before he speaks,'97a man who, although quietly happy in the present, seems to be years back in thought. A man now nearly eighty one and yet he has the fire of youth when you come to discuss the old days of 1856 and the inception of the furniture industry in Berlin.

    That quiet, genial man is William-known to us all as "Daddy" Simpson the father of the furniture trade, and the father of many in the furniture trade today. Just to sit an hour and chat with "Daddy" is one of life's reminiscences. It's one of the milestones on life's highway to glean from him the vicissitudes of fifty-six years in Berlin. To live to 'be eighty-one is notable even in a country where longevity is a strong feature of our healthful clime; but to find rank as the founder of an industry that is raising Berlin into the front rank of the Dominion is to be desired by many, and attained by few. "Daddy's" age means something. He created an industry. Age does not always mean a biography or a page in the upbuilding of a town, province or a dominion. Methuselah lived nine hundred and sixty nine years, we are told in the inspired Word, but if he ever said a quotable thing or did a useful one we do not know it. William Simpson came to Berlin in 1856 when it had about 1,200 population. The main street then as now was King Street. It had a few scattered houses and ran from the Waterloo boundary to the Old Mennonite Church. It aimed to be a street of some importance; it put on a bold front but it had big gaps for hundreds of yards where only grass and untenanted lots were awaiting the development of the town.

    There were two small furniture factories in those days - the Hoffman Factory stood where the Merchants Bank stands in 1912; Enoch Ziegler owned the second factory which standing in the East end after many ups and downs passed into the hands of the Canada Furniture Company in 1901.

    "Daddy" Simpson managed the Ziegler factory for the assignees early in 1856. In the fall of that year, he, with the assignees, formed a company known as the Menno Eby and Co. Factory. For three years they went on the even tenor of their way turning out good substantial furniture. "Furniture to wear" as Mr. Simpson says. They did not seek fancy frills and the many fads in furniture that prevail in these days. Then Mr. Eby retired and it became Simpson and Co; the Company being William Simpson, David S. Shoemaker (well known in those days) and James Potter, who owned the Great Western Hotel which stood where the Walper House stands now.

    In 1887 the Simpson Company moved to what up to a week ago was known as the Simpson Block on King Street, but which block by the strange whirligig of fate has just been bought by A. G. Schreiter who worked for many years for "Daddy" Simpson.

    The business eventually became Simpson, Anthes & Co., the members being William Simpson, John Aldous, Senator Merner, and John Anthes; an amalgamation of Simpson's original factory and Anthes & Co. who succeeded the Hoffman factory. As William Simpson says, "We made a general line of medium grade furniture -- furniture that would weargood dependable stuff' - so good it is in service to-day."
    Sales were chiefly in the local market. They had no serious competition.

    In 1862 the firm became Simpson and Aldous. In 1877 it was Simpson, Anthes & Co., and from 1862 to that date except for some small factories this firm had no opposition.

    There was, however, a good factory in Waterloo known as the Wegenast Furniture Factory, in which the original Mr. Isaac Hoffman was interested after retiring from Berlin. Internal differences arising, Mr. John Anthes retired in 1881 and the firm again became Simpson & Co., composed of William Simpson and Senator Merner. In 1911 the business was sold out to the Canada Furniture Manufacturers Limited; Mr. Simpson retaining his stock but in favor of younger men. What is now Schreiter's Block but to thousands will long be remembered as the Simpson Block, was built in 1887 and it is an interesting sidelight on the marvellous increase in land and building values in 1912 when the Simpson Block in 1912 sells for three times its first cost in 1887. Of course, the great factor in its increase in value is its central location, and it is without doubt in the throbbing heart-centre of the City. "Now, William, how do you explain the fact that Berlin for nearly sixty years has been interested heavily in the furniture industry and now is the centre of the Furniture Industry of the Dominion?" It was here that I touched upon the genial eyes to glisten and the reserved tongue to loosen.

    "Daddy" Simpson was in the heart of the furniture trade in thought at once "Why? Why?" Why just because we had the common business sense to mind our own business which was making good furniture."

    "It was so good that people talked about it. It sold here in Berlin and its fame spread to surrounding towns, and then our furniture went there, and they talked it and the fame spread further; for reputation that endures can only be built upon the solid foundation of quality."
    I do not know that in my seventeen years in newspaper life in which I have interviewed many notabilities that I ever listened to a man with more interest than to "Daddy" Simpson.

    He is the living throbbing embodiment of the creed of thoroughness in work and goodness of output. If it's worth doing at all it's worth doing well'97seems to be his creed. He recognised that the home is the trysting place of love and rest, that anything which makes for harmony, happiness, and comfort is an essential and a blessing. "He built good furniture," that is the burden of his song at eight-one years of age, would it were the general burden of our song all the years of our lives.

    From this Father of the Furniture Industry cannot we read why Berlin is the Furniture City of Canada? The master was so good that those who served with him caught his spirit, went forth in their day to make good furniture and are making it yet.

    It is not left to all of us to see the fruits of our policy; but William Simpson can look over Berlin to-day and see the best furniture firms owned by his graduates, and this is one great solace in his declining years.

    As you all know the great factories here are those owned by Hibner, Krug, Anthes, Lippert, Berlin Furniture Co., Baetz, Kreiner and Wunder, all names to conjure with in the furniture business from the rock bound coast of the East to the Pacific shores of the West.

    Among the well known Berlin furniture manufacturers of to-day who at one time worked for "Daddy" Simpson are George Lippert, Sr., Jacob Kreiner; and among the furniture retailers, A. G. Schreiter, who as Mr. Simpson says, "For many years had charge of my Upholstery Department and was an excellent workman." Edward Lippert served his time as an upholsterer and has since made good in the retail furniture business and with investments in the North West.

    Then there's Conrad Wurm of The Berlin Table Co., who used to work with Mr. Simpson on extension table work," a right good workman who knew his work and did it."

    Then there was Levi Seibert in charge of "Daddy" Simpson's Undertaking Parlors for twenty-five years, a tribute to the good work of the employee and the good appreciation of employer and the public, for the management of such a department requires great tact and unlimited good judgment and not a small amount of patience. He is still retained to manage that department for Schreiter' s.

    I must not forget Herman Rathman, a finisher, indeed the boss finisher for the old Simpson Company; a man more or less retired from active business to-day but bears the reputation in the trade of being "one of the best finishers in Canada."

    Then in the Baetz factory to-day there is Henry Hagen, who graduated from the Simpson factory and known as one of the best fitters in the trade; and there, no doubt, are a large number of good workmen in our Berlin furniture factories who received their technical training from Mr. William Simpson but his memory is at fault recalling them, he would do so if he could, for he believes in giving every man his just due.

    "Daddy" Simpson points with pride to the fact that his son Harry learned the furniture trade with him, then took charge of the J. B. Snider Office, School and Church Furniture Factory at Waterloo for many years and five years ago went to Eastern Township Furniture Co., Athabaska, P. Q., where he is doing well; an instance of heredity and that blood will tell.

    William Simpson was. born in England, came to Canada when but five months old; his parents settled in St. George, near Harrisburg, Ontario; he was educated there and at fifteen went to Hamilton and was apprenticed for four years to William Wright, a cabinet maker.

    "Daddy" Simpson wisely and truly remarks that the great outstanding impression that remains with him is that every Berlin factory, furniture or otherwise, that is operating in July 1912, started from humble beginnings. All started from practically nothing, but indomitable industry and hard concentrated self-effort to succeed. All stand as monuments to the native talent, energy and application of their founders.

    Fourteen large furniture factories rear their chimneys to the sky in our midst, work is continuous, all of them have difficulty in filling their orders, all of them are crying for skilled help; most of them are owned, managed and staffed by Germans men who are famed in the wood working industry, as clever at manufacturing as they are shrewd at retailing. Our manufacturing centres are favorably known for their freedom from fuss, feuds, or factions. They run smoothly. They turn out huge quantities of good materials.

    These in control know their business from A to Z. Those who work in these factories swear by them. They work in them and for them. We send out of Berlin several times a year the largest excursion parties that go out of Ontario; we work when we work and we play when we play. That is the true secret of good factory management.

    That was the basis of "Daddy "Simpson's business system. Get good men, treat them, let them work under sanitary conditions, pay them well, and all the rest will adjust itself to the betterment of employer and employee. How well these principles work out is best shown in the fact that seventy per cent of our residents live in their own homes; and Berlin is growing by leaps and hounds every year. "Daddy" Simpson's life and its results is an inspiration to us all. To know such men is a liberal education.

    Official souvenir of the celebration of cityhood, July 17th 1912, Berlin, Ontario, The German Printing and Publishing Co

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    King Street, Kitchener


    Cedar to Albert Street.

    At the corner Enoch Ziegler's carriage factory, a good-sized and well-known shop which continued for many years.

    A brick building, one story and a half, lengthwise with King Street, occupied by Yost Stroh as shoemaker shop and dwelling. Later this was made into a two story building.

    Next an open space,

    A two story frame building, crowned with a bell tower, with a boiler house and engine in the rear. The bell is said to have been cracked on a New Year's night by too violent ringing. In any event its sound was impaired. The building as a factory was at one time operated by Cornell & Bowman. It changed tenants from time to time and occasionally was idle. In 1867 Henry Strieker used it as a woolen mill and William Simpson used it at one time. The building was unpainted. It was eventually destroyed by fire.

    Another factory building with gable toward King Street and a one story veranda in front.

    A two story brick dwelling, well back from the street, occupied by A. H. Mowat, general agent and Deputy Clerk, He was the father of Jim Mowat, known as Moses Oates and, as a weather prophet, active on the Toronto Globe for some years. Jim Mowat was a school mate of Jacob Stroh at the Central School. He published almanacs and was known throughout the province.


    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


    Elected Office:
    Years Served: 1871-73

    Residence:
    137 Ontario St. was formerly known as 77 Foundry St. North.

    William — Elizabeth Aldous. Elizabeth (daughter of Benjamin Aldous and Elizabeth Crow) was born Between 1828 and 1829, , Suffolk, England; died 8 Feb 1918; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Elizabeth Aldous was born Between 1828 and 1829, , Suffolk, England (daughter of Benjamin Aldous and Elizabeth Crow); died 8 Feb 1918; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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    • Name: Elizabeth Simpson
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-137211
    • Immigration: 1832, , Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1861, , Wisconsin, USA; Church of England
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
    • Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Children:
    1. 3. Fannie Elizabeth Simpson was born Jun 1854, , Ontario, Canada; died 1944, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.
    2. Ann Eliza Simpson was born 1856, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    3. Harriet Ellen Simpson was born 9 Dec 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Mar 1859, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. Laura K. Simpson was born 1860, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    5. William Martin Simpson was born 28 Jul 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 21 Apr 1944, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    6. Henry Albert "Harry" Simpson was born 12 Jan 1869, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 Feb 1945; was buried , Urgel Bourgie Memorial Gardens, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec.
    7. Clara Louise Simpson was born 3 Jun 1872, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Apr 1905, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.


Generation: 4

  1. 10.  Rev. James Cairncross was born 1789, of, Scotland; died 23 Nov 1851, Blandford Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Occupation: minister
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-119817
    • Residence: 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland

    Notes:

    Ordained by the Original Secessionist Church in Birsay, Orkney 1819 (James, having problems surviving on his church stipend of 70 Pounds annually, demitted his charge in 1842 and emigrated in 1845 to Wisconsin, USA.) He was ordained in 1819 in Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK.8 minister of the Original Secessionist Church

    James married Hannah Hedley McKay on 28 Sep 1822 in Birsay, Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. Hannah Hedley was born in 1795 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, was christened on 8 Nov 1795 in Thurso, Caithness, Scotland, and died after 1851 in Ontario, Canada. They had six children: Barbara Campbell, John, Robert, James Edmund, Helen Elizabeth and Edmund Alphemy.

    Family of James Cairncross, born circa 1791, Orkney, Scotland.. (2019). Home.freeuk.com. Retrieved 16 August 2019, from https://home.freeuk.com/iancx/F-T-4.html

    Occupation:
    Presbyterian Church

    James — Hannah Hedley McKay. Hannah was born 1795; died 3 Sep 1868, Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  2. 11.  Hannah Hedley McKay was born 1795; died 3 Sep 1868, Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Hannah Hedley Cairncross
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-129754
    • Residence: 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland

    Children:
    1. 5. Barbara Campbell Cairncross was born 27 Jul 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; was christened 1 Sep 1823, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; died 11 May 1902, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada.
    2. William Cairncross was born 1828, , Scotland; died 15 Oct 1854, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    3. James Edmund Cairncross was born 1830, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; was christened 6 Jul 1830; died 13 Dec 1893, Birtle, , Manitoba, Canada; was buried , Birtle Cemetery, Birtle, , Manitoba, Canada.
    4. Alexander Cairncross was born 1833, , Scotland; died 25 Feb 1855, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Helen Elizabeth Cairncross was born 1833, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; died 23 Sep 1907, Burford, Burford Twp., Brant Co., Ontario; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    6. Edmund Alphemy Cairncross was born 22 Nov 1836, Birsay, , Orkney Islands, Scotland; died 26 Jan 1907, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Shakespeare, Perth County, Ontario, Canada.

  3. 12.  Martin Simpson, Sr. was born 11 Jan 1807, North Cave, Yorkshire, England; was christened 11 Jan 1807, North Cave, Yorkshire, England; died 25 Jul 1879, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/167538460
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138403
    • Historic Building: 1858, 78 Weber St. West, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
    • Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoemaker
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

    Notes:

    Historic Building:
    Built in 1858 by Martin Simpson a boot and shoe maker. Constructed of stone two stories high and covered (1978) in stucco. In 1978 is was listed in very good condition with a much altered entrance.

    Martin married Ann Elizabeth "Eliza" Tindall 12 May 1830, North Cave, Yorkshire, England. Ann was born CALC 24 Sep 1809, , England; died 10 Mar 1892, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  4. 13.  Ann Elizabeth "Eliza" Tindall was born CALC 24 Sep 1809, , England; died 10 Mar 1892, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Ann Elizabeth "Eliza" Simpson
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138404
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
    • Residence: 1891, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Children:
    1. 6. William Simpson was born 28 Oct 1831, North Cave, Yorkshire, England; was christened 1 Dec 1831, North Cave, Yorkshire, England; died 29 Oct 1912, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. Tindall Simpson was born 1833, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 10 May 1893; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    3. Martin Simpson was born 15 Jan 1836, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1917; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    4. John James Simpson was born 2 Aug 1841, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 2 Jun 1869, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    5. Robert Thomas Simpson was born 1843, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
    6. Harriet Francis Simpson was born 29 Sep 1846, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 12 Dec 1922, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    7. Rebecca Sophia Simpson was born CALC 2 Jan 1847, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 2 Aug 1878, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    8. Fanny Elizabeth Simpson was born 20 Mar 1850, St. George, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 15 Oct 1923, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried 18 Oct 1923, Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

  5. 14.  Benjamin Aldous was born Abt 1791, , England; died Bef 1861.

    Other Events:

    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-155095

    Notes:

    Benjamin Aldous was report to have passed away in Guelph, Ontario in 1848.

    Benjamin — Elizabeth Crow. Elizabeth was born CALC 26 Jun 1790, , England; died 26 Feb 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]


  6. 15.  Elizabeth Crow was born CALC 26 Jun 1790, , England; died 26 Feb 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Elizabeth Aldous
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-155094
    • Residence: 1851, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; CO
    • Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

    Notes:

    CROWE, John (c1788-13 Dec 1872) m ALDOUS Harriet. A son Robert, d 5 Feb 1894 at ae 77, in Guelph. Robt m CLUTTON, Susan (c1823-13 Dec 1897) who was a sister of CLUTTON, William the grgdfa of the enquirer, Bill Clutton OGS 3497.

    Waterloo-Wellington Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society, Branch Notes Vol X No. 4 1982

    Children:
    1. 7. Elizabeth Aldous was born Between 1828 and 1829, , Suffolk, England; died 8 Feb 1918; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
    2. John Aldous was born 4 Oct 1832, , Ontario, Canada; died 17 Sep 1907, Barrie, Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Greenwood Cemetery, Georgetown, Halton Co., Ontario, Canada.