Arthur Allan Ullyot

Other Events:

• Club Membership: mason
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-115624
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1912, Trenton, Hastings Co., Ontario
• Occupation: 1921, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; pharmacist
• Historic Building: 1922, 7 Arthur Street N., Elmira, Ontario

Notes:

Don Cale Retires
Drug store's 54-year history comes to end
by Shirley Crane

The closing of Cale's Rexall Drugs this past weekend marked another milestone on Arthur Street for the business had been established fifty-four years ago and progressed through many changes. The original owner of the store was Arthur A. Ullyot, son of a former Elmira physician, Henry Ullyot. Arthur graduated as a pharmacist in 1903 from the University of Toronto. He served his apprenticeship with George Bingham, a Toronto pharmacist whose store stood at 100 Yonge street. Bingham's store had the original soda fountain and ice cream business. Young Arthur Ullyot made soda and became very knowledgeable about soda fountains. He began to sell soda fountains for J. J. McLaughlin who became the head of Canada Dry (J. J. McLaughlin was a brother to Sam who founded the McLaughlin automotive business in Oshawa.) Arthur Ullyot was later involved in several businesses in Elmira, Trenton, Toronto and other locations, before he decided to return to Elmira in 1921 and resume his profession of pharmacy. A year earlier he had purchased the original fixtures from Bingham's drug store, and it was Don Cale who cleaned off these fixtures and polished the beautiful mahogany. Don's mother, Lily May, was a sister to Arthur Ullyott. She had married and was living in British Columbia when she died in 1922. Don came to live with his aunt and uncle in Elmira. He went to school here, worked in his uncle's store and graduated as a pharmacist from the University of Toronto in 1932. His apprenticeship had been served with his uncle, and he also spent a year with Liggett's in Toronto. Don worked for ten dollars a week and board, until his uncle died in 1934. He and his aunt then ran the business as a partnership. In 1950 he bought out his aunt. Several years later the decision was made to change the name of the business to Cale's. It was shortly after that his aunt died. The original store had been located where Dreisinger's funeral chapel now stands. [In 2010, Shoppers Drug Mart is at the location: 7/9 Arthur Street North.] The front of that store was moved and is now the front of the Elmira Music Centre on Church street east. The business was moved to its present location in 1940. [In 2010, approximately 27 Arthur Street South: Read's Decorating Centre.] For many years the drug store was also the only stationery store in town. Don handled text books, note books, refills, inks, and all kinds of writing papers. That part of the business was given up when a stationery and book store was established in town, but Don never got around to removing the word "stationery" from the store's sign and logo. In 1937, Don married Kathryn Hamacher of Waterloo. They had three children, Julia, now Mrs. Robert Morton of North Bay, Gordon of Chetwynd, B.C. and Thomas, of Douglas Point. Don has a grandson and two granddaughters, Julia's children. Don had been giving considerable thought to retirement, but a serious illness last month made the decision promptly for him. The huge desk where Don wrote up drug store business for so many years has been moved to the hall in his large old home on Arthur street south. He needs it there for there are still some details to be finished after closing his business. The prescription files have been sold to Cook's Pharmacy who also bought those lovely, antique mahogany fixtures.

Elmira Independent, Feb. 26, 1975

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ARTHUR A. ULLYOT

Death claimed a prominent Elmira resident early this morning in the person of Arthur A Ullyot local druggist Mr Ullyot suffered stroke about a week ago which hastened his end. He was son of the late Dr. and Mrs. Henry Ullyot and was born in Elmira 63 years ago. He lived for time in Trenton and Toronto before returning to Elmira 13 years ago. The deceased was past president of the Toronto Druggists' Golf Association and chairman of the local high school board. He always took a keen interest in civic affairs as shown by the fact that he was at one time head of the board of trade and was a former president of the Elmira Horticultural Society. He also served on the public school board for a number of years. He was past master of the Elmira Masonic Lodge. The late Mr. Ullyot is survived by him wife and one sister. Mrs. Alba Cavannagh, of California. The remains will be at Dreisinger's funeral chapel until Wednesday evening. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon at 2.20 o'clock from his late residence on Arthur street. Burial will take place in the Elmira cemetery.


Elmira Signet 28 Nov 1934

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No Ghosts: History of the Wachsmuth Block / Dreisinger Building,
7 Arthur Street North, Elmira
by Marion Roes

Published in the Waterloo Historical Society Volume 91 - 2003, pp. 20-29 .

Excerpts printed with permission from the author.

The building was sold and demolished early in 2008. Shoppers Drug Mart built a new store on the corner which opened in October 2008.

William Wachsmuth was an early Elmira entrepreneur. He arrived in 1860, built a small frame building on the corner of Church and Arthur Streets, opened a shoe shop, then added a grocery. Some years later, he was able to build a large, square, two-storey yellow brick "block" with a warehouse on the back.

Divided into three sections, the Wachsmuth block housed many businesses before 1906 when Christian Dreisinger moved his undertaking business into the center section of the building. Some of those businesses were: Wachsmuth Printing, the Traders Bank, Miss Edmund's millinery shop, Weichel Hardware, City Shoe Store (owned appropriately by Mr. Schumaker), Massey Harris Co. Of Toronto, Ford and Liesemer Farm Implements, Otto Wachsmuth's boot and shoe business (which advertised McPherson's Lightening Hitch Hockey Shoe).

Dreisinger added retail furniture later in 1906 and by 1912 more space was needed. The warehouse came down and a large two-storey addition with a second entrance on Church Street went up. So that furniture could be moved to and from the new display area on the second floor, a manual pulley elevator was installed.

When Pentland's Millinery's lease ended in 1921, C. Dreisinger Furniture and Undertaking expanded into that north section and combined the two entrances into one. The local newspaper noted that the upstairs, previously set apart for furniture, would be the casket department of the undertaking business. In the same year the Royal Bank, which had merged with the Traders Bank in 1912, moved across the street.

Arthur Ullyot, druggist from Toronto leased the corner section and changed the windows and entrance. Freddie Miller, owner of the electrical business across the street on Church Street, installed a motor for the manual elevator.

Funeral practises were changing. During the early 1930s people started asking for funerals to be carried out at parlors instead of in their homes. No longer was the deceased's body prepared at home, or visitations held there. Except for wintertime, cars had replaced horse-drawn hearses. A 1937 fire map shows a garage added to the rear of the building with room for hearses and cars for two complete funerals.

Then, in 1940, Ullyot's Rexall Drug Store moved down the street and that corner section became a funeral chapel, reportedly the first in the district. Renovations to the rest of the building included a properly appointed morgue, visitation rooms and casket showroom. In the basement were a radio repair shop and the building's air conditioning and automatic heating systems.

Another use for the elevator shaft was drying the 12 x 15 foot tent which sheltered mourners at graveside services. After a rain it was a struggle, standing on the main floor to push the heavy wet canvas with a pole to the second floor so the rings on the top hooked onto the top of the elevator shaft. It took at least 36 hours for the tent to dry, hanging three stories through the open top of the elevator stationed in the basement.

In 1977 the furniture and funeral businesses were separated. Dreisinger Funeral Home moved to 62 Arthur Street South and with it went the pews, stained glass windows and the Hammond electric organ. Furniture displays expanded to new space opened when visitation and preparation rooms were removed.

"Are there ghosts?" people often asked. Ghost stories are usually about how a person dies. People had already died when they were brought here. So no, no ghosts!

Information for the article was taken from personal records, newspapers and local history books. They are listed in the Waterloo Historical Society Volume 91 - 2003 which is available in libraries.

Historic Building:
Arthur Ullyott and his wife Alice at the opening of Ullyott's Drug Store 1922. This Section became the chapel of Dreisinger's Funeral Home in 1940.

Arthur married Alice Letitia Crowe Á. Alice was born 1886, Trenton, Hastings Co., Ontario; died 1957, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Arthur Ullyot was born 15 Apr 1917, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 17 Apr 1917, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Trenton, Hastings Co., Ontario.

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94171992
• Interesting: politics, medical, story
• Organization: Elmira Public Library, Elmira, Waterloo, Ontario
• Recording: Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Enid Wintisch interviewing Donald Cale grandson about Henry Ullyot
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25981
• Immigration: 1852, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1852, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Occupation: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Medical Doctor

Notes:

CLOSE OF AN ACTIVE CAREER

DR. H. ULLYOT, OF ELMIRA WAS ONE OF WATERLOO COUNTY'S OLDEST PRACTICIONERS - FUNERAL TOOK PLACE TO-DAY.

The funeral of the late Dr. H. Ullyot, who died at his home in Elmira on Wednesday morning, took place this afternoon. A large number of Berlinites were among those who attended. The deceased had passed the prime of his life, but was nevertheless actively engaged in his profession, and who for aught man knew, had before him the prospect of a number of years of useful life. Deceased was born in England in the year 1845. When 5 years of age he emigrated to Canada. He commenced practice thirty years ago; when four years in practice he removed to Hawkesville where he enjoyed the confidence of many patients during the eight years of his residence. Thence he removed to Elmira, where at the time of his death on Wednesday morning, at a result of a severe attack of pleuro-pneumonia, he had just entered upon his twenty-sixth year of practice, and where he held the esteem of all who knew him. He was a man of refined manners and gentlemanly bearing throughout, was known for his straightforwardness and integrity, had the courage of his convictions and lived a life compatible with the christianity which he professed as a member of the Methodist church. Dr. Ullyot took a keen interest in public and educational affairs, was in his time a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berlin High School, chairman of the Elmira School Board, member of the Railway Committee and Board of Trade. Although repeatedly nominated for municipal honors, he declined to stand until a few years ago, when he sought admission into the County Council, but was unsuccessful. He was a ready speaker, who, when he took the platform, was intently heard, his remarks being marked by a carefulness and conservatism that indicated mature consideration. He enjoyed a remunerative medical practice and will be greatly missed by his numerous patients as well as by his fellow citizens in general. He was thrice married. His first wife, a daughter of Dr. Kay, of Farquahar, left him three sons and three daughters, viz.: George, of Yorkton, Assa; Mary (Mrs. Alba Cavanagh) and Henry, of California; Arthur of Toronto; Lily (Mrs. Cale) of Stratford, and Francis who died at Elmira in early womanhood. His second wife, a former Miss Edgar, of Stratford, departed this life several years ago, and deceased was again married to a Miss Snider of Norwich, who survives him, and who together with the other members of the family, has the sympathy of a large circle of friends in the loss of a kind and considerate husband and an affectionate father. Deceased had reached the age of 60 years, 9 months and 17 days.


Daily Telegraph, January 13, 1905

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Dr. Ullyot visited his daughter at Toronto last Saturday and Sunday


Elmira Signet 01 Nov 1900 p. 1, col. 2

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Married: At the home of Mr. and Mrs. (Rev.) W. C. Watson, Eramosa....Thursday, Oct. 23^rd, being the occasion of the marriage of Miss Nettie Snyder, of Norwich, Ont., to Dr. H. Ullyot, of Elmira. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. C. Watson, M. A., brother-in-law of the bride.

Elmira Signet 30 Oct 1902 p. 1, col. 4

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....the wife of Mr. Henry Wittich had breathed her last...Over a month ago deceased had the misfortune to choke on a piece of meat which became lodged in her wind-pipe, threatening immediate suffocation. Dr. Ullyot was called in and managed to remove the obstacle to an extent to make breathing easier. However, inflammation set in, and in spite of all that medical aid could offer, she gradually sank until death relieved her intense suffering, last Sunday. Deceased was 38 years of age, and leaves a sorrowing husband and four daughters, aged from 2 to 14. Funeral took place on Tuesday afternoon....

Elmira Signet 06 Nov 1902 p. 1, col. 5

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Personals: Mr. Bert Rowan, who had been employed in Dr. Ullyot's drugstore for some time past left on Friday morning to take a position in a drugstore in Parkdale.

Elmira Signet 20 Apr 1893

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Local News: Mr. A. E. Rowan who has been carrying on a drug business in Dr. Ullyot's old stand, for several months, has decided to discontinue the business. He has removed his stock to his home near Orangeville, where he intends to leave it until he finds another opening for business.

Elmira Signet 15 Mar 1900 p. 1, col. 2

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Dr. H. Ullyot is a native of England. He came to Canada in 1850 and commenced practice 36 years ago. Of the 36 years practice he spent 32 in Waterloo County, vis: 8 at Hawkesville and 24 at Elmira, where he enjoys a good practice and the respect of the community. He is coroner for Waterloo County. Dr. Ullyot has taken considerable interest in public matters, having been member of the Berlin High School Board, Chairman of the Elmira Public School Board, Medical Health Officer, member of the Board of Trade and the Railroad Committee.

Enterprising Elmira Souvenir, An historical, descriptive, and illustrated Book of the Village of Elmira, Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, published by George Klinck, 1903.

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Dr. Ullyot Dead

Death has called away another prominent and useful citizen of Elmira in the person of Dr. H. Ullyot, a man who, although he had passed. the prime of life, was actively engaged in his profession, and who, for aught man knew, had before him, the prospect of a number of years of useful life. Deceased was born in England in the year 1845. When 5 years of age he emigrated to Canada.

He commenced practice thirty eight years ago; when four years in practice he removed to Hawkesville, where he enjoyed the confidence of many patients during the eight years of his residence. Thence he removed to Elmira, where at the time of his death, which occurred at four o'clock on Wednesday morning, as a result of a severe attack of pleuro pneumonia, he had just entered upon his twenty-sixth year of practice and where he held the esteem of all who knew him. He was man of refined manners and gentlemanly bearing throughout, was known for his straightforwardness and integrity, had the courage of his convictions and lived a life compatible with the christianity which he professed as member of the Methodist church.

Dr. Ullyot took a keen interest in public and educational affairs, was, in his tittle, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Berlin High School, Chairman of the Elmira School Board, member of the Railroad Committee and Board of Trade. Although repeatedly nominated to municipal honors, he declined to stand until a few years ago, when he sought admission into the County Council but was unsuccessful. He was a ready speaker, who when he took the platform was intently heard, his remarks always being marked by a carefulness and conservatism that indicated mature consideration. He enjoyed a remunerative medical practice and will be greatly missed by his numerous patients as well as by his fellow citizens in general. He was thrice. married. His first wife, a daughter of Dr. Kay, of Farquahar, left him three sons and three daughters, viz.: George, of Yorkton, Assa.; Mary (Mrs. Alba Cavanagh) and Henry of California; Arthur,of Toronto; Lily (Mrs. Gale) of Stratford ; and Francis, who died at Elmira, in early woman-hood.

His second wife, a former Miss Edgar of Stratford, departed this life several years ago, and deceased was again married to a Miss Snider, of Norwich, who survives him and who together with the other members of the family has the sympathy of a large circle of friends, in the loss of a kind and consideate husband and an affectionate father. Deceased had reached the age of 60 years, 9 months and 17 days. His remains will will be interred in the Elmira Union Cemetery on Friday, Jan. 13th, the funeral leaving his into residence on Church street At 2.30 p. m.



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ULLYOT, HENRY was born in England in 1845. He died in Elmira on January 11, 1905. He married (1) Catherina Miller Kay, of Farquahar, they had three sons and three daughters. (2)Miss Edgar of Stratford, and (3) Miss Snider of Norwich, who survived him.

He came to Canada when he was five years old. While in Mitchell he received his licence as an eclectic physician, according to the Canada Gazette of December 7,1867.

After four years of practice he moved to Hawkesville, where he practised for eight years. He then moved to Elmira, where he practised for twenty four years, until the time of his death.

He took an active interest in local affairs, was appointed coroner for Waterloo County, and was a member of the Berlin High School Board, Chairman of the Elmira Public School Board, member and president of the first Elmira Board of Trade, and a member of the Railroad Committee. He made one unsuccessful attempt to become a member of the County Council, although he was in demand as a platform speaker.

At the time of his death he had reached the age of 60 years, 92 months, and had been actively engaged in his practice

Dr. Alexander D. Campbell, Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925

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DR. H. ULLYOT.

This popular and well known citizen was born in Skipsea, Yorkshire county, England, in 1844, and came to this country when only six years of age, it being sometime in the year 1850. He lived in the town of Mitchell about twelve years. He is an honorable graduate of the Toronto School of Medicine, leaving that institution when he was about twenty-eight years of age. He has been a coroner of the county for about twenty years, is at present President of the Elmira Board of Trade, Chairman of the School Board and Health Officer and is the representative of the Great Northwestern Telegraph Co. for Elmira. The business of the latter is in the hands of his daughter, Miss Lillie, who is an accomplished telegraph operator. The Doctor also has a well equipped drug store, in which will be found all the standard drugs and patent medicines, toilet articles, etc. He also enjoys a wide and lucrative practice in his profession and bas been usually a very successful physician.

Waterloo County Chronicle 27 Jan 1898, p. 1, 2, 3

Organization:
On January 24, 1888, a meeting was held to organize a Mechanics' Institute in Elmira. Membership cost $1 a year. The first board members were: David Bean, George Klinck, A. Werner, John Ratz, A. H. Erb, A. Blatz, Wm. Behrens, Sol Laschinger, Dr. Ullyot, and M. Weber. The librarian/caretaker, C. K. Jansen was paid $30 a year.

Recording:
Park of a series consists of 40 oral histories conducted by a committee in the former Town of Elmira. The project began in 1974 when Abner Martin, Manager at the Canada Trust had a dream that people were being interviewed about the history of Elmira. Abner told his dream to Harry Wintsch and Harry got his wife, Enid involved. The committee included Mary Anne Kirkness, Elmira Library Supervisor; Abner Martin; Enid Wintsch; and Bob Huschka, Elmira High School history teacher. the interviews were conducted by Enid Wintsch, Lorene Bosomworth, Ruth Moldenhauer, Harry Wintsch, Bertha Thompson, Art Gorman, Joanne Venton, and Pat Weber. The project was funded in partnership between Canada Trust and the Township of Woolwich and continued until 1983.

Henry — Catherine Miller Kay. Catherine was born 26 Oct 1845, , Lanark Co, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Jul 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/94172821
• Name: Catherine Miller Ullyot
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-115616
• Residence: 1891, Elmira, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist