Paul Theodore Breithaupt

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188867
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Paul — M. Jean Alexander. M. was born 1907; died 1969; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Paul Alexander Breithaupt was born 9 Sep 1940; died 24 Apr 2018, Creemore, Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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• Nationality: , Canada
• Name: L. J. Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00030-2327.1
• Immigration: 1855, , Canada
• Immigration: 1861, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Historic Building: 1874, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Sonneck House
• Naturalization: 1875, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manager
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; tanner and leather merchant
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Elected Office: 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor, Deputy Reeve, Reeve, Warden
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner - Eagle Tannery
• Business: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Breithaupt Leather Co.
• Public Service: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Council of the Baord of Trade
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Leather
• Residence: 1911, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Employer: 1912, Ecomonical Fire Insurance Company, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; director of Economical Fire Insurance Company
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner, ? Leather
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Notes:

Louis J. Breithaupt, Mayor 1888-9.

Mr. Louis J. Breithaupt, eldest son of the late Louis Breithaupt occupied the mayor's chair with acceptance in 1888-1889. Previous to gaining this honor, he served as councillor, deputy-reeve and reeve. For some years he was a member of the county council and during the time, was chosen warden of the county. During his public career, he has served on the School Board, of which he became chairman. Also was a member of the Local Legislature in 1900-2. As mayor his policy was: Economy with Progress. He is a director of both the Economical Fire Insurance Co. and the Mutual Life Ass. Co. of Canada. Mr. Breithaupt is an useful citizen.


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

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LOUIS JACOB BREITHAUPT.

Louis Jacob Breithaupt, whose business history forms an integral chapter in the commercial and industrial development of Berlin, was born in Buffalo, New York, March 3, 1855, his parents being Louis and Catherine (Hailer) Breithaupt. The father, a native of Hessen, Germany, brought his family from the United States to Canada during the early boyhood of his eldest son, Louis J. Breithaupt, who was educated at Berlin and Toronto, after which he joined his father in business in the former city, learning the trade of a tanner. He was subsequently at different times salesman, bookkeeper and commercial traveler for the house, and upon the death of his father in 1880 he became a member and acting manager of the firm of Louis Breithaupt & Company. In 1890 the business was re-organized as a joint stock company, under the style of The Breithaupt Leather Company, Limited, having extensive tanneries at Berlin, Penetanguishene and Listowel, with head offices at Berlin. Mr. Breithaupt is now president of the company, which is operating extensively in the tanning business and as dealers in leather, being one of the largest houses of its kind in Canada. The trade has been developed along substantial and healthful lines, through a ready recognition of conditions in the business world, through close application and through unfaltering perseverance. The enterprise was established on a safe, conservative basis, and in the conduct of the business most systematic methods are followed, while the relations with the patrons are based upon a high standard of commercial ethics.

While the tanning and leather business occupies most of Mr. Breit- haupt 's time and attention, he has also extended his efforts to other fields of activity and is now president of the Ontario Bark Company, Limited, while in former years he was president of the Berlin Gas, Electric Light & Power Company. He was also formerly connected with the Berlin & Waterloo Street Railway Co., and is now a director of the Berlin & Bridgeport Street Railway Co. He was formerly first vice-president of The Berlin Rubber Co., Limited, and has been for many years a director of the Economical Fire Insurance Co. of Berlin ; is president of the North Waterloo Agricultural Society.

The city has benefited by interests which have been promoted by him aside from those of a strictly business character. He has been chairman of the Berlin school board, and the cause of education has found in him a stalwart champion, and he is now chairman of the German School Society of Berlin. Although politically somewhat independent, believing that on general principles the interests of the country should precede that of any party, he represented the riding of North Waterloo in the Ontario Legislature as a supporter of the Liberal government from the year 1900 to 1902. He was likewise president of the Berlin Board of Trade and is a member of the Park Board, of which he is now the chairman, and of which board he has been a member continually since its inception in 1893. No movement or measure for the welfare and progress of the city along material, intellectual and moral lines fails to receive his endorsement and co-operation. He was for several years president of the Young Men's Christian Association and was one of the first trustees of the Berlin-Waterloo Hospital, his broad humanitarianism and ready sympathy finding expression in his efforts along those lines. For a number of years he served as a member of the Waterloo county council, during the year 1898 he was warden of the county and for seven years he was a member of the Berlin town council, serving as councillor, deputy reeve and reeve, while in 1888 and 1889 he served as mayor of the city.

In 1881 Mr. Breithaupt was married to Miss Emma Alvarene, the second daughter of Benjamin Devitt, formerly mayor of Waterloo. Their union has been blessed with a family of eight children: Evelyn, Lillian, Edna, Rose, Louis, William Walter, Catharine and Paul. Mr. Breithaupt is in religious faith connected with the Evangelical Association, and has reared his family in that belief. He has been for many years a member of the board of trustees of Zion Evangelical Church. He is a man of domestic taste, devoted to the welfare and happiness of his wife and children, and in citizenship he stands for all that is progressive and beneficial, and in business life for all that is honorable. He has been to a great extent the architect of his own fortune and has builded wisely and well. A man of sound judgment, he has never arrived quickly at conclusions, but when once his mind is made up as to what is the right course nothing can deter him from pursuing it. He possesses excellent executive and business ability, combined with a resistless energy and resolute purpose, and while he has gained a handsome competence he has never selfishly used this for his own interests only, but has done what he could to promote the welfare of the city and to ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. He recognizes fully man's obligation to his fellowmen and throughout his life has been actuated by high and honorable principles.


A History of Ontario: its resources and development

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LOUIS J. BREITHAUPT, Berlin, Ont., was born in 1855 in Buffalo, N.Y., from whence he came to Canada. His father was very prominent in business and municipal circles, and mayor of Berlin at the time of his death in 1880. Mr. Breithaupt was married in 1881 to Emma Alvarene, daughter of ex-Mayor Devitt, of Waterloo, Ont. He was educated at Berlin and Toronto, and is now engaged in the tanning business, (which trade he learnt practically), being president of the Breithaupt Leather Company Limited, who have extensive establishments in Berlin and Penetanguishene, Ont. He was seven years a member of the town Council, three years in the County Council, and two years mayor--being the youngest mayor Berlin has had. He is president of the Ontario Bark Company Limited, of the Berlin Gas Company, and is also connected with other manufacturing enterprises in Berlin. He is a school trustee, and has recently been unanimously elected president of the Board of Trade. Mr. Breithaupt is an active member of the German Evangelical Church, and is ever ready to promote its welfare.

The Canadian Album - Men of Canada or Success by Example (Brantford, Ontario, Canada: Bradley Garretson & Co., 1891)

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In Death Of L.J. Breithaupt - Kitchener - Former mayor, reeve and deputy reeve of Berlin, now Kitchener, and former M.L.A. for North Waterloo, Louis J. Breithaupt passed away at St. Petersburg, Fla., early Monday Morning. Mr. Breithaupt, who only a few days ago, celebrated his 84th birthday, was president of the Breithaupt Leather Co., for many years. His death came as the result of bronchial pneumonia which he contracted, shortly after fracturing his arm in a fall about three weeks ago. He had spent the winter in Florida. In addition to being active in philanthropic and political fields, the deceased was a leader in Board of Trade operations, being a former president of the organization, here. Mr. Breithaupt spent many years as a member of the Toronto Board of Trade, and for some time was president of the tanners section of that body. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1855, he was a son of the late Louis Breithaupt, who was the fourth mayor of Berlin. His mother was the former Catherine Hailer. His own civic career advanced rapidly, and in 1888, at the age of 33, he served as mayor of Berlin. He was again chief magistrate in the following year. In 1900, he was elected to represent the constituency of North Waterloo in the Legislature, running on a Liberal ticket, and retired from that position in 1903. Mr. Breithaupt was Warden of Waterloo County in 1989. His long service in civic affairs included terms as chairman of the board of park management, chairman of the public school board, president of the Kitchener Y.M.C.A., member of the first Kitchener-Waterloo hospital board. During the Great War, he served as president of the Patriotic Fund. Mr. Breithaupt is survived by three sons and fi e daughters, former Mayor L.O. Breithaupt, managing director of the Breithaupt Leather Co., and president of the Kitchener board of trade; William Breithaupt, Breithaupt, both of Toronto; Mrs. J. R. Parry, Hamilton, the Misses E. Lillian Breithaupt and Edna Breithaupt at home, Mrs. H. S. Clark, Scarboro, and Mrs. A. V. Bennett, Fitchburg, Mass. Also surviving are three brothers W. H. Breithaupt, John C. Breithaupt and A. L. Breithaupt, and two sisters, Mrs. C. Augustine and Mrs. A. Bauman, all of Kitchener. His wife predeceased him in 1925. She was the former Emma Devitt.

The Waterloo Chronicle Mar 10 1939 pg 3

Historic Building:
Named "Sonneck" this house was built in 1874 as a leased residence by Louis Brethaupt. Two stories and made of brick it is one of the last homes in Kitchener, owned by Louis Breithaupt's eldest son, Louis Jacob and was purchased upon his marriage. Strong Italianate features reflect Breihaupt's American architectural background. It contained some of best stained glass in the city. In 1978 it was recorded as being in very poor condition.

Elected Office:
Municipality Berlin; 1st Div
Years on local council: Councillor 1882-83 ; D Reeve 1885-86; Reeve 1887; Mayor 1888-89
Years on Waterloo County Council: 1885 1886 1887 1897 1898 Warden 1899 1900

Louis married Emma Alvarena Devitt Apr 1881. Emma (daughter of Mayor Benjamin Devitt and Nancy Lewis Bowman) was born 16 Oct 1860, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 12 Jun 1925, Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Emma Alvarena Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: 00030-2327
• Birth: 17 Oct 1860, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Recipes: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Notes:

Emma Devitt, "is married to Louis Breithaupt and resides in Berlin." Emma Devitt, "... has a family of six children,.."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Recipes:
MEAT STEW Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt


Brown a teaspoonfull of butter in a stew pan, add two cups of left over meat, cut in small dice, and enough hot water to cover it, boil well for a few minutes. Take 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 head of celery (all small), 6 bay leaves, cook till tender in a little salt water, then add to above and thicken with a little flour.

Recipes:
CREAM OF POTATO SOUP

Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt

To 10 potatoes add water enough to cover well and boil till done; put potatoes through potato ricer and return to the water they were boiled in, add a good quart of milk and let it heat well. Put a piece of butter the size of an egg into a frying pan and let it brown nicely, then add a cup of flour and allow it to turn brown and powdered fine; add this to first mixture and season with salt and pepper. Put all through a fine colander.<sup>1a

1a</sup>The Ladies of Berlin, Waterloo and Friends Elsewhere, The Berlin Cook Book (Berlin, Ontario: The New Record Print Shop, 1906), pg 24

Other Events:

• Business: Eagle Tannery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Eagle Tannery
• Historic Building: 30 King St. E., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; 3 story brick, commercial
• Honoured: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Breithaupt Park named in the family honour
• Interesting: business, politics, life story,
• Name: Louis Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-37247P
• Immigration: Nov 1843, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
• Residence: 1853, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States
• Business: 1854, Breithaupt Leather Co., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1861, , Ontario, Canada
• Elected Office: 1866, Berlin and Waterloo, Ontario; Morden, Carman and Winnipeg, Manitoba; councillor, Deputy Reeve, Mayor
• Business: 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Tannery
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Historic Building: 1872, 25 Maynard Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Historic Building: 1874, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Sonneck House
• Family Photograph: 1876
• Historic Building: 1876, 190 Victoria St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Louis Breithaupt, mayor of Berlin, and one of the most successful business men in the town, was a son of Liborius and Catherine (Goetze) Breithaupt, and born in Allendorf, Kurhessen, Germany, on the 8th November, 1827. He received a common German education; partially learning his father's business, that of a tanner, in the old country, and in November, 1843, came with the family to the United States, settling in Buffalo, N. Y., the next spring. There they built a small tannery on Seneca street, at the " Hydraulics," making it of slabs, and commencing to tan sheep skins on a very moderate scale, subsequently purchasing other lands, and rebuilding and enlarging from time to time. Thus father and son continued to operate together until 1851, when Liborius Breithaupt died, and Louis carried on the business awhile alone without changing the firm's name, which was simply L. Breithaupt. In 1852, Jacob F. Schoelkoff became the partner of our subject, and in 1855 they purchased a tannery at North Evans, sixteen miles from Buffalo, and managed both tanneries until 1861, when Mr. Breithaupt sold out his entire interest, and settled in Berlin. Four years before this date he had started a tannery here, in company with his brother-in-law, Jacob Wagner, who died in the spring of the next year (1858). Finding it difficult and unsatisfactory to manage his business in Canada while residing in Buffalo, he concluded to concentrate all his capital here, and to make Berlin his home.

Mr. Breithaupt commenced operations here with thirty-two vats, adding from time to time until he has one hundred and forty-four vats; and while we are writing this sketch he is preparing to double this number, and is erecting a drying house, with a capacity for 1,000 sides a week.

With his present facilities he is doing a business of about $120,000 a year. There is no more enterprising manufacturer in the lively town of Berlin none whose excellent business capacities have been better rewarded.

In addition to his tannery and his large brick house in a six acre lot, on the outskirts of the town, Mr. Breithaupt owns the great three story American House block, which has ten stores besides the hotel, and several of the finest residences in town, not to mention other property scattered here and there.

He takes much interest in any public enterprise calculated to build up the town, and holds, at this time, the office of provisional director of the Waterloo, Wellington and Georgian Bay railway, projected continuation of the Grand Trunk road from Waterloo.
He has held successively the office of town councilman, deputy reeve, and mayor, being at this time at the head of the municipality of the town, and having an eye watchful of its interests.

Mr. Breithaupt is a member of the Evangelical Association, a trustee of the same, and one of the most liberal supporters of religious and charitable organizations in town.

February 8, 1853, he married Miss Catharine Hailer of Berlin, and they have had ten children, nine of them still living. The parents are taking great pains to educate the children and to fit them for spheres of useful labor.

Mrs. Breithaupt is a daughter of Jacob Hailer, a native of Baden, Germany. He left the old country in 1829, and after spending one year in Baltimore, Maryland, came to Canada, and settled where the town of Berlin now stands. That was just fifty years ago. He built the fifth or sixth house in the place, and followed the wheelwright business till a few years ago, his specialty being spinning wheels and reels. He is in his 76th year, and somewhat deaf and infirm. His wife is also living, and quite smart and active. Mr. Hailer is a prominent member of the Evangelical Association, and has long been an officer of the same.

The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Ontario Volume, 1880

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Louis Breithaupt, who started the first tannery in Berlin in 1857, at one time used the services of Abraham Lincoln, then a Springfield, Illinois lawyer.

The fifth generation of Breithaupts in the tanning industry, he was associated with his father in business in Buffalo. During one of his trips to Canada to buy sheepskins, he met and eventually married Catherine Hailer of Berlin. In 1861 they came to Berlin to reside and later moved into a spacious home named Waldeck. A number of their descendants became distinguished and famous citizens.

Breithaupt's life was one of unremitting activity and indomitable perseverance. His tannery was destroyed by fire in 1867 and again in 1870 but he rebuilt and continued to develop a large business. He was called the "first citizen of Berlin" for his work in furthering the growth of the town and his municipal activities, including two years as mayor.


Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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Past two decades have seen many King Street blazes

KITCHENER Sunday's fire at the Stag Shop lengthens the list of blazes that have punched holes in Kitchener's downtown streetscape in recent years.

"Regrettably, older buildings sometimes have some of these difficulties," Kitchener Mayor Carl Zehr said. "We want to obviously maintain the character of the core," Zehr said. "It's fairly representative of the downtowns of the cities in our province and our country." The building housing the Stag Shop at 30 King St. E. is part of a block that dates from 1862, when it was constructed by Louis Breithaupt. The building is no stranger to fire, having been heavily damaged in a blaze in February 1995.

The Waterloo Region Record 27 Mar 2011

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Louis Breithaupt, Mayor, 1879-80.

The late Louis Breithaupt was born in Germany in 1827. Migrated to Buffalo, N. Y. in 1842, where he engaged in business. On a visit to Berlin he met Miss Catherine Hailer, to whom he was married in 1853. He established a leather business here in 1857, which was followed by the establishment of a tannery. Through successes and reverses, he built up a large business. In fostering the growth of his adopted town and in the extension of its interests, he was foremost. At the time of his death in 1880, he was in his second year as mayor of Berlin. He was termed its foremost citizen.

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

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Louis Breithaupt & Co., Tanners, Queen Street, Berlin, Ont. - The largest and most important tannery and leather house in Ontario is that known as the "Eagle Tannery," owned by Messrs. Louis Breithaupt & Co., of Berlin. This business was established in 1858 by the late Mr. Louis Breithaupt, and in its inception was not, comparatively speaking, of large proportions, but on account of the superior quality of the leather manufactured, and the persevering energy and enterprise of the inceptor, it rapidly developed, extending in volume year by year, until it reached its present immense proportions. On the decease of the founder in 1880, the business was carried on under the management of his tree sons, Mr. Louis J., Mr. William H. and John C. Breithaupt, under the direction of the executrix and executors. The said L.J. and W.H. are the executors, their mother, Mrs. Catharine Breithaupt, being executrix. The sons are young men, but understanding the heavy responsibility resting upon their shoulders, and being gentlemen of sound common sense and more than ordinary business ability, have not only maintained the former standing of the firm but have materially developed it; and finding that it was necessary to increase their production to fill orders, it was found necessary to build a new tannery, and so a large and substantial structure was erected at Penetanguishene, on the shores of Georgian Bay, where hemlock bark could be obtained in sufficient quantities for their requirements. This new tannery manufactures Spanish sole leather only and is one of the largest of its kind, and is said to be the model tannery of the Dominion, having a capacity for turning out 700 sides per week. The tannery there is fitted up with all the latest and most improved machinery and appliances known to the trade. The tannery in Berlin has a capacity of 1,000 sides per week of sole and harness leather, peerless calf, peerless veal kips, prime upper, etc. The firm also at their warehouse on Queen Street carry all kinds of foreign leathers, shoe findings, tanners' tools etc. They sell both wholesale and retail, and being themselves manufacturers as stated, are always prepared to give the best value, both in quality and prices, of any leather house in the Dominion.

Industries of Canada Historical and Commercial Sketches Hamilton and Environs 1886

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King Street , North Side

Queen St. North.

On the corner there was a frame building lengthwise with King Street, occupied by J. U. Tyson, dealer in groceries, wines, liquors and meats, erected about 1833. In 1841 Sheriff George Davidson bought this building and in it opened the first Post Office in 1842. His brother William was associated with him. Probably during 1845 Doering & Ahrens occupied the premises as a general store. A little later the firm was Huber & Ahrens. Mr. Huber acted as magistrate for a number of years, in which occupation he was popular and had much to do, people coming from small surrounding villages to Mr. Huber for fair trial. He was the second reeve in Berlin.

Next came a barber shop occupied by George A. Fischer who also served as dentist and as fruit dealer.

A house erected by C. A. Ahrens of Huber and Ahrens. Mr. Ahrens had a brick vault at the back of his kitchen, lined with an iron chest and considered fire proof. He was the first treasurer of Waterloo County and had this vault for safe keeping of his books and papers. The house was later occupied by Dr. Mylius.

Louis Breithaupt, who came from Buffalo in 1861 after having started his tanning business in Berlin in 1857, previously bought the corner of King and Queen Streets, and erected there the first section of the American Block in 1862.

Next to the Dr. Mylius house there was a two story brick building erected about 1855. It was occupied by Baedeker and Steubing who had a considerable business as book sellers and stationers, also as dealers in wallpaper, etc., besides doing some publishing. This business, moved later to the corner of King and Frederick Streets, continued until Mr. Steubing's death.

In his younger years Mr. Baedeker was a carpenter and had cut his knee with an adze, necessitating amputation and substitution of a cork leg.

On the site of the present Steel's store, George Davidson, later sheriff, erected a building in 1845 and moved the Post Office there when Doering and Ahrens occupied the corner store. Mr. Davidson also had a general store in this new building. About 1855 Kranz & Stroh occupied the building as a general store.

Next came a building occupied at first by George Klein and later the site of Henry Knell's jewelery shop.

John Winger's pump shop. Wooden pipe called pump logs were of about ten-inch timber, tamarack or pine logs with a bore of about 3". The pumps were mostly finished square and surmounted with turned tops.

A two story frame building painted white. John Winger's house. Eby's history mentions John Winger as having come from Pennsylvania in 1836.

A ten-foot lane leading back to the Public School grounds and into Winger's yard. The highest ground in this vicinity was in Winger's yard. Children were in the habit of sliding down the hill in winter to King Street. In 1840 Mr. Bentler erected a building and occupied the second floor as dwelling and shoe shop. Martin Messner had a music store on the ground floor which was a few steps above the street level. In 1855-6 Andrew Nicolaus took over the Winger house and changed it to a hotel. The first considerable street grading operation in Berlin was the lowering of the corner of King and Frederick and vicinity 8 to 10 feet. This put the St. Nicholas Hotel, as it was called, under the necessity of being extended downward one story and this lower part became the hotel office and bar room. At the westerly end of the hotel there was a shed and stable for horses. Over the shed, approached by a stairway, there was a hall known as St. Nicholas Hall used for concerts, balls and entertainments generally. At the rear of the adjoining St. Nicholas Hall there was a building on the high ground known as the Turner Hall and used as German Turnverein.

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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Queen Street North, East Side.

Huber and Ahrens occupied the corner as a store and had a warehouse at the rear. The first section of the American Block was built in 1862. It contained a hotel with entrance on Queen Street and stores on the King Street front.

A meat shop occupied by one Schaefer and later by Crozier. This building was later occupied by Von Ebenau, a German toy dealer. He also built some sidewalks for the village in 1857.

A long two story frame building originally used by C. Ahrens as a barn and later by John Jacob Woelfle, a plough maker, who had a shop at one end and lived in the rest of the building. He had worked in the foundry on Foundry St. and after this shut down started his own shop. The building was later occupied by Rev. Jacob Wagner, who died there.

In 1858 a two story frame building was erected by Louis Breithaupt as his office and leather store. This was the first building on this site.

A 1 1/2 story dwelling with veranda lengthwise with Queen St. occupied by jailer Walden. Dr. Whiting later lived in this building for a time.

A small house occupied by Mrs. Harbin, (widow of Rev. Harbin who was Swedenborgian minister in Berlin) and her sister, Mrs. Wheeler.

A garden owned by Thomas Sparrow, with balsam trees along the street, adjoining the Sparrow's two story house with gable toward Queen St. and long veranda. Sparrow later moved to Galt.

A two story plaster building painted red with ground floor considerably above the sidewalk level and steps leading up to it, occupied by the Commercial Bank.

St. Peter's Church, formerly a vacant lot belonging to Mrs. Krug. The lot extended to Weber St. and to Mrs. Krug's house on Frederick St. This site was at one time favorably considered for the Central School, but it was decided that the ground would not be large enough. The present parsonage of St. Peter's Church was built by Dr. Eby, a native of Berlin, who had been living in Sebringville. He was the oldest son of John Eby spoken of as on Frederick Street. He married a daughter of Cyrus Bowers.

Weber Street.

County Buildings.

Jail and Jailer's residence with a barn at the rear. The jail was built some time after the Court House, about 1860.

Ahrens Street.

One and a half story frame building painted red, the dwelling of Charles Roos, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory.

Frame building, the house of Mr. Stuebing, later occupied by Charles Peterson.

Small dwelling.

Street.

A brick yard operated by Nicholas Zieger who made puddled brick by hand. Later the brick yard belonged to John Dauberger whose house, a red frame building, was on the corner of Ellen and Queen.

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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Queen Street North, West Side

Gaukel's well at the corner of the hotel shed, the corner being later built up as the Bowman Block, now the Bank of Montreal.

A brick warehouse belonging to the corner store of the Bowman Block. First occupants of this store were Bowman and Heins, later H. S, Huber and then by Huber and Roy.

Opposite the Breithaupt leather store stood a one-story brick building, Dr. Pipe's surgery and later Dr. Wright's.

A two-storey brick house lengthwise with Queen Street and with veranda on two sides, the veranda a few steps above the ground, occupied by Henry Schaefer. In 1871 Dr. Pipe lived in this house. Among other things Dr. Pipe kept bees, although he was quite afraid of them. Dr. Pipe and Henry Stroh succeeded in bringing the first Italian queen bee to this part of the country.

A lane.

A handsome brick house, gable roof, lengthwise with the street, the corners faced with limestone from Guelph, erected by Joseph Hobson, the surveyer, in 1860. Hobson eventually was Chief Engineer of the Great Western Railway and when that was merged with the Grand Trunk he became Chief Engineer of the latter Company and was among other things Chief Engineer of the Sarnia tunnel. Alexander MacPherson, editor and publisher of the Berlin Telegraph, later lived in the house. The site is now occupied by the head office of the Economical Fire Insurance Company.

A two-story red frame building well back from the street built probably before 1850 by Peter Eby, identified with the "Deutsche Canadier" and with the early days of the "Telegraph". Dr. Eggert, homeopath, lived in the house 1859-1860 and later John Klippert, high constable and county bailiff.

One and a half story brick building at the corner of Duke and Queen Streets occupied by a Mr. Von Ebenau and wife and later for a number of years by Michael Jaehle, a blacksmith. The site is now occupied by the Daily Record building.

Duke Street.

A large handsome building trimmed with cut stone built in 1860 by David S. Shoemaker of Bridgeport who was county registrar, The building was intended for a bank and agent's residence and so used first by the Commercial Bank which failed and later by the Merchants Bank of which R. N, Rogers was agent for a number of years. Some time later Dr. H. S. Lackner acquired the property and used it as residence and surgery. After Dr. Lackner's death the property was sold to the present occupants, the Langleys of Toronto.


building, colonial style, with large posts at the front carrying the projecting roof, erected in 1848-49, the Waterloo Township Hall, the land for which was donated by Frederick Gaukel. General public meetings were held in this hall, among others meetings purposing to have Berlin named as county town. After consummation of this a banquet was held in the hall, which was occasionally used for such purpose. The occasion of this particular banquet was the laying of the corner stone of the new county buildings in 1852. 100 guests were present and there were a number of patriotic toasts. Later the building was used as a printing office, the "Deutsche Canadier" and the "Telegraph" being printed there for a time. Eventually the building was remodelled and enlarged and became the Methodist Church. In 1904 the St. Matthews Lutheran congregation purchased the property and later the First English Lutheran Church, which still continues in the building.

Behind the present Kitchener Public Library, occupying the site of his ornamental garden, and still standing is Dr. Scott's residence, built in 1855. Henry Rothaermel was the contractor. Dr. Scott was the first warden of the county and first reeve of Berlin. After his death the house was occupied by M. C. Schofield who married Dr. Scott's widow. Later Israel Bowman, for many years county clerk and town clerk of Berlin, acquired the property and lived there.

Weber Street.

On the corner the Presbyterian Church first built 1860-61 at a size of 36 ft. by 50 ft., cost $4,500 and seating 175 persons. Rev. John McMeekin was an early minister.

A two-story red brick building lengthwise with Queen Street, built 1855-56, the house of H. S. Huber.

Simon Roy's house, also red brick, one and one-half story high, both of these houses were set back from the street. Mr. Roy was nurseryman and florist.

A one-story double house lengthwise with Queen Street.

Before Ahrens Street was continued westerly across Queen Street there was on the site a two-story unpainted weather-boarded building, the house of John Dopp.

frame building, similar to Dopp's, the house of Christina Bloch, a widow who lived there for many years.

A frame building, similar to Dopp's, but with gable facing Queen Street, the house of August Vetter, painter and paper-hanger.

A vacant lot later owned by Louis Breithaupt who built, on the corner of Margaret Avenue, a residence for Judge Lacourse.

Margaret Avenue.

On Margaret Avenue a short distance westerly from Queen Street was the Moxley farm with house and barn. The barn was later moved to Lexington by Henry Stroh who bought it to replace one that had been struck by lightning. On the corner of Ellen Street a brick house occupied in the early days by Rev. Mr. Savage, Methodist minister, and later by John Hoffman, Jr., a druggist.

Ellen Street.

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


Historic Building:
Destroyed by fire 27 Mar 2011, constructed by Louis Breithaupt in 1862. Originally constructed as the American Hotel.

Elected Office:
Municipality Berlin Years on local council: Councillor 1866-68, 1875; Deputy Reeve (1867-68?, 1876; Mayor 1879-1880 (died in July)
Years on Waterloo County Council: 1867 1868

Business:
from: Gazetteer and directory of the County of Waterloo. 1867

Historic Building:
Built by Louis Breithaupt as a rental residence for John Klippert. John puchased the property in 1887. It is a two story brick residence now (1978) made into a duplex. In 1978 it was listed as in very good condition.

Historic Building:
Named "Sonneck" this house was built in 1874 as a leased residence by Louis Brethaupt. Two stories and made of brick it is one of the last homes in Kitchener, owned by Louis Breithaupt's eldest son, Louis Jacob and was purchased upon his marriage. Strong Italianate features reflect Breihaupt's American architectural background. It contained some of best stained glass in the city. In 1978 it was recorded as being in very condition.

Historic Building:
Owned originally by Louis Breithaupt was built as a rented home. It is a two story brick home. In 1978 was listed as in very good condition and much altered.

Philip married Catharine Hailer 8 Feb 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catharine (daughter of Johann Jacob "Jacob" Hailer and Margareth Riehl) was born 16 Aug 1834, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 9 Aug 1835, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 5 Jul 1910, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Catharine Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95840
• Residence: 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Illegible
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Sketch of the life of CATHARINE BREITHAUPT HER FAMILY and TIMES.

On the main street of Berlin, just east of what is now Scott Street corner, there stood until some twenty years ago a handsome one-and-a-half storey white frame house with sundry additions. Along the front of the house extended a trellised veranda, and the space between this and the street was filled in with a cobblestone walk and a narrow border of flower beds and perennially blooming lilacs. An enclosed lawn with fine trees, and with a grape arbor against the house, filled in the angle between main house and easterly extension. Beyond this was a spacious yard with driveway from street gate to a barn at the rear, and another one-and-one-half storey building directly on the street, the former workshop of the proprietor. Along the street line was an immaculate white picket fence. A well-cultivated vegetable garden outlined with thick rows of currant bushes adjoined the rear of the house. Beyond, down the hill, stretched an orchard to another garden enclosure and a little meadow with diminutive, but never dry, watercourse spanned by a little bridge, the whole bounded by the rear street.

Eight substantial brick houses, roomily spaced, now occupy the former orchard and meadow; the barnyard contains a dwelling and several business buildings; and the old house, still standing, but masked by a brick ex-tension to the street line, is changed to two stores, known as numbers 104 and 106 King Street East.

In this house, not long after it was first built, and many years before it with its setting attained the trim and prosperous look we so well remember, there was born at half-past ten in the evening of a sultry summer day, the 16th day of August, 1834, Catharine, the second daughter of Jacob and Margaret Hailer.

The time was one of memorable affliction in the settlement. An epidemic of cholera had broken out in the village of Galt, twelve miles from Berlin, immediately following the visit of a circus on the 28th of July, and had been brought by resident circus visitors to Berlin and vicinity. In one week there were thirty-three deaths in Galt alone. A victim in Berlin, dying of cholera on August 18th, was the wife of Bishop Eby, who appears to have been the principal man of affairs of the settlement. A man later prominent. in Berlin and in the County generally as a public-spirited citizen came into notice at this time. Dr. John Scott had come over from Scotland to his brother in Galt only a few weeks before the breaking out of the cholera there, and was one of the most active and fearless relief workers. He was later for many years a resident of Berlin, was the first Reeve of the village and first Warden of Waterloo County.

The present Public Library, opposite one of the corners of Court House Square, occupies what had been Dr. Scott's ornamental garden in front of his house; and the old house, of red brick, well preserved though somewhat changed, still stands at the rear of the library.

The little hamlet of Berlin, so named only a few years before, after having been variously known as the Sand Hills and as Ebytown, contained at this time but a few scattered dwellings. Across the road from the one spoken of there was still, and for a number of years after, a con-siderable stretch of woods. A little farther west was one of the sand hills, where now is the Town Hall with street surface graded down about twelve feet below its level of that time. Down the hill was a swamp which the road to the Waterloo grist mill crossed on "corduroy." Stretching for many miles about Berlin was a prosperous farming settlement of Pennsylvania Germans, who had taken up the land some thirty years before.

To this settlement, then a part of Halton County, Upper Canada, came Jacob Hailer with young wife and infant daughter, and on locating in Berlin established a home which he retained to the end of his life. He soon resumed his handicraft of wood turner and chair and spinning-wheel maker, which had been in abeyance since he had left his native Germany a few years before, and at once filled a want in the settlement. The pioneer manufacturer in Berlin, he was also the first settler from Germany, the first of the large body of native Germans who, mainly, made of the little village the most important German centre as well as the foremost manufacturing town in Canada.

Jacob Hailer was born in Wilferdingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, November 20th, 1804. He came to America in 1829, landing at Baltimore, Md. There, through her father, brother and sister, who had been fellow passengers with him, he met Margaret Riehl (born 1807), a native of Muehlhausen in the then French Province of Alsace, who with a younger brother had come over the year before. In those days, which saw the feeble beginnings of ocean steam navigation, the voyage to America was by sailing vessel and was a hazardous undertaking. Margaret Riehl and her young brother were ninety-two days at sea. Their vessel (named the Henry Clay), driven out of its course by adverse winds, was given up for lost, and passengers and crew were on the verge of starvation before port was gained, and this was Baltimore, instead of New York, the intended destination. Jacob Hailer accompanied the Riehl family to Buffalo in 1830, and there, in the same year, married Margaret Riehl. For a while they lived at Chippewa, on the Canada side of the Niagara River, where was born their first child, a daughter, Margaret, in 1831, in the fall of which year they came to what is now Waterloo Township, and lived for a year or longer in a little log-house about one mile west of what is now German Mills, on the main road from that place to Berlin. In 1833 Hailer bought his first acre of land in Berlin, from Benjamin Eby, the (Mennonite) Bishop Eby already spoken of, and at once set up his dwelling and workshop.

As the years passed the German Handwerker and his wife progressed by thrift and industry to competence. The family increased by a further succession of daughters: Harriet, born 1836, Marian in 1838, and Caroline Hannah in 1843; and finally came a son, Jacob Christian, born in 1846 (at which time, as we read, the population of Berlin amounted to 400).

Active as he was in the establishment of the Evangelical Association in Canada, the home of Jacob Hailer was always hospitably open to the ministers of this denomination. The first meetings of the Association in Berlin were for some time held in Hailer's shop. One of the ministers, a young man Jacob Wagner, for a time in charge of the work of the church in Berlin, married Margaret Hailer. Canada was at that time a part of the New York Conference of the Association. Minister Wagner was later stationed in Buffalo, N.Y., where one of his close friends was Philip Louis Breithaupt, a young man carrying on a light tanning business with his father. Breithaupt made periodical trips to Canada to buy sheep skins, etc., for the tannery in Buffalo, and through his friend Wagner made the acquaintance of the Hailer family. Liborius Breithaupt, the father of Philip Louis, died in May, 1851. His funeral was the first at which Minister Wagner officiated at Buffalo. The son thereafter dropped his one given name, Philip, and called himself simply Louis; mainly, it appears, in order to continue the business name of L. Breithaupt.

Louis Breithaupt married Catharine Hailer on the 8th day of February, 1853. We are told of how the wedding party, strung out in a line of cutters, drove daily to Bridgeport, to an hotel located on the south side of the road between the two bridges. Bridgeport at that time was a thriving trade and industrial centre, where were made, by hand, waggons, harness, saddles, knives, scythes, and farmers' requirements generally. In the evening the party attended the opening of the new court house of Waterloo County, then just completed, in Berlin. Husband and wife proceeded by horse and buggy-there was no railway to Berlin-to Buffalo, where awaited them on Carrol Street, next to Seneca Street, in the part of the city long known as the Hydraul-ics, a neat, substantial and commodious brick house just built by the husband. Here passed the first nine years, almost, of Catharine Breithaupt's married life, and here were born her first three sons, Louis Jacob in 1855, William Henry in 1857, and John Christian in 1859.

Before his marriage, a year after the death of his father, Louis Breithaupt formed a partnership with Jacob F. Schoellkopf in Buffalo, Schoellkopf being the capitalist and Breithaupt, apparently, the more active partner, doing particularly the outward business; travelling a good deal, among other directions to the then Far West, to Chicago, and beyond the Mississippi to the Missouri River. There may here be mentioned that in the way of business requiring the services of a lawyer, he made the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., and ever afterward retained intense admiration for this national hero. A small photograph of Lincoln, received from him, remains a souvenir of this acquaintance.

An early friend of Louis Breithaupt, from his youthful years, before he was married, and afterward a friend of his family, was, and is, Mr. Carl Boller of Buffalo, now in serene old age, but still active.

In 1857, Breithaupt, preferring a business of his own, started a tannery in Berlin, Canada West, on land obtained from his father-in-law. Hither came his good friend and brother-in-law, Rev. Jacob Wagner, in the spring of 1858, having, on account of broken health, had to quit the ministry and intending to go into business with Breithaupt. He died, only thirty-three years old, two weeks after his arrival in Berlin (in a house, later moved and still in use on Breithaupt Street, then occupying part of the site of the Breithaupt Leather Company's present warehouse and offices on Queen Street). Rev. Jacob Wagner's son, Louis Henry, now Superintendent of Missions for the Canada Conference of the E angelical Association in the North-West Provinces of Canada, lived for many years in the family of his uncle Breithaupt; first for a while in infancy after the death of his father, later in school age, and still later, after college years, when active in his uncle's business, until he entered the ministry in 1882.

In 1861, the year of the breaking out of the American Civil War, Louis Breithaupt decided to move to Canada. The family left Buffalo on the first day of November in that year. In Berlin they occupied for ten years the frame house and additions, now, what there is left, partly separated and used as three dwellings, off Adam Street near the tannery. In this house were born the first daughter, Caroline Margaret Barbara, in November, 1861, Melvina Emilia in 1863, Esra Carl in 1866, Daniel Edward in 1868, and Albert Liborius in 1870. In 1871 the family moved into the large brick house off Adam Street at the head of Margaret Avenue, known as Waldeck; and here, in joy and sorrow and in tranquil older age, Catharine Breithaupt lived for thirty-nine years, by a few years the greater part of her life. At Waldeck were born her children, Catharina Louise in 1872, and Friederich Adolph in 1875, and here she died peacefully and with Christian resignation on the evening of July the 5th, 1910, thirty years and two days after the death of her beloved husband.

The life of the father of the family was one of unremitting activity and of indomitable perseverance. Through successes and reverses, among the latter the complete destruction by fire of his entire tannery plant twice in short succession, in 1867 and in 1870, he built up a large business. In fostering the growth of his adopt-ed town and in the extension of its interests in every direction he was foremost. In the latter years of his life Louis Breithaupt had well earned to be called the first citizen of Berlin. For many years he was school trustee, member of the Town Council, etc. At the time of his death he was in his second year as Mayor of the Town. In all the activities of the father the mother was his constant, devoted and sympathetic helpmate. In the family the father was stern, but always affectionate. Of the mother her older sons will most strongly remember her distress when any of them had done wrong, and her persistence and love in correcting their faults.

A great sorrow came to the family in the tragic death of their little son and brother, Daniel Edward, not quite three years old, in 1871. On a Sunday afternoon, the 9th day of July, there was a Sunday School festival in a grove near the tannery, then rebuilding and not yet completed. Rain coming on the large party took shelter in the building, on the main floor, which broke, dropping many into the vats below. No one was injured to any extent except the little boy, who was drowned. "Gott schenke mir and uns alien die Gnade ihn im Himmel einst wieder zu sehen," [ God, grant me and all of us the grace to see him in heaven once again] wrote father of him in the family records in his Bible.

On the third day of July, 1880, a little after ten o'clock in the forenoon, there closed the useful life of Louis Breithaupt. Of vigorous constitution and great energy, he had broken down by overwork, and died, yet a young man, not quite 53 years old. In the house he planned and built with such excellent forethought, and wherein he died, in the same room as mother after him, he lived for less than nine years.
Father's death was the great crisis in mother's life. It was followed in a few short years by a number of deaths in the family. Freiderich Adolph, the youngest of the family, a most affectionate little boy, and already giving, at his tender age of seven years, evidence of large mental capacity, died of diphtheria on June 21st, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio, where his mother was on a visit to her friend Mrs. (Bishop) Dubs. On April 14th, 1886, Catharina Louise, the youngest daughter, a bright, lovable child, the sunshine of the household and her mother's particular dependence, died after a short illness. Grandfather and grandmother Hailer celebrated the fiftieth anniversary, their golden wedding, quietly on September 19th, 1880. Not two years after, on the 6th of March, 1882, grandfather died. Grandmother, surviving him for three years, died on the 9th day of June, 1885.

Mother's only brother, Jacob Christian Hailer, died November 5th, 1886. He was twice married; in 1866 in New York, where his first wife died, and on November 21st, 1883, to Louisa Knell, at Berlin, Ont., to where he had returned. One daughter, Erna Bertha, is now the only bearer of the family name of grandfather Hailer's descendants.

Grandmother Breithaupt lived for many years in the family of her son, who tenderly cared for her after the early death of his father. Grandmother came over from Buffalo a few years after the rest of the family. Father had a separate dwelling built for her in one of the additions to the old house, and when building his new house a special part of it was built and arranged for grandmother. She died, at the age of 85 years, in January, 1887, six and one-half years after her son.

Our brother Esra Carl died, faithful unto death to his sense of duty, at 2 o'clock A.M. on the 27th day of January, 1897, from injuries received the evening before in an explosion at the Berlin Gas and Electric works, of which he was manager and part owner. Thus suddenly closed, in the flower of early manhood, at not quite 31 years, a life of large promise of usefulness. Esra Carl had taken the scientific course at North-Western College, Naperville, Ill., graduating in 1887. For some years after that, his health not being strong, he spent parts of the winters in the South, in Bermuda and in Texas, accompanying to both places Dr. D. S. Bowlby, an old and esteemed friend of the family; the family physician for more than forty years. In 1891 and 1892 he took a post-graduate course in Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, after which he lived regularly in Berlin. He changed the Berlin and Waterloo horse railway to an electric railway, and shortly afterward acquired a large interest in the property and became president and manager. He was member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of the Canadian Electrical Association, of which latter body he was vice-president at the time of his death. Of his estate mother gave a thousand dollars to the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital, in which is placed a window to his memory.

It was years after father's death before our dear mother could be induced to resume any interest in life. A visit she made to Germany in 1888, with her son John, daughter Melvina and nephew Rev. L. H. Wagner, to father's relatives as also to her own, may be said to have been somewhat of a turning point. Gradually she became interested in many church and other benevolent activities, and particularly in her grandchildren as they came one by one. Her greatest pleasures were the family gatherings at her house, at Christmas and on other occasions. In her own Zion Church, in the building of which she so largely took part, both financially and with good counsel, and in the many interests connected with it; in the Canada Conference of the Evangelical Association, and in the general missionary and other causes of the Association; in the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital, of the Ladies' Auxiliary of which she was treasurer for a number of years, and in other worthy interests of her native town; she was for many years active. The cause which in later years held her greatest interest was perhaps that of the Deaconess' Society of the Evangelical Association in Canada; a cause which she had near at heart, and to which she left a handsome property in Berlin.

With her two oldest sons she was a trustee of her husband's estate, and in this capacity showed her business acumen as well as her power of smoothing out difficulties and reconciling divergent views. She was the active head of the family.

Our dear mother's health, for years feeble after father's death, was later fairly good. To this her habits of industry and regularity and of early rising and retiring largely contributed. She greatly enjoyed travel and benefited thereby. In 1896 she made a second visit to Germany. She made periodical visits to the two of her children living at a distance, and made other journeys, sometimes accompanying one or other of her sons on long trips, on one, only a few years ago, with her son Albert to the Pacific coast, all of which she enjoyed with ever buoyant and eager spirit. For more than twenty-five years she regularly spent part of the summer months in Penetanguishene, on Georgian Bay, where was her summer home and where she had many friends.

She was a. good correspondent, and had, naturally, the art of writing interesting letters. For many years she kept an extensive diary, which became a valuable family and general chronicle.

The death of her son-in-law, A. B. Augustine, in 1909, deeply affected her. Albert Benjamin Augustine was born in Racine, Wis., March 6th, 1859, graduated from North-Western College, Naperville, Ill., in 1879, and had been, at the time of his death, Principal of the Winslow School in his native city for over 25 years. He married sister Caroline in August, 1887, and became a greatly esteemed member of our family. His untimely death, Saturday, April 12th, was caused by kidney disease, which had confined him to his bed about four months. A life-size bronze medallion portrait of him, placed shortly after his death in the school which he well served for so many years, testifies to the respect in which he was held by his fellow citizens.

Mother had been subject to heart trouble more or less for a number of years. In March last she accompanied her son William on a somewhat hurried journey to Bermuda. Here were at the time her friends, and relations by marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy and Miss Murphy, and she much enjoyed a short visit with them and to the scenes described to her, years before, by her son Esra Carl. The journey brought, however, some over-exertion, not sufficiently heeded. Her friends had urged her to prolong her visit in Bermuda, but she was eager to return home, and here her too active disposition led her at once to take part in various work and excitations instead of taking the rest she required. A month after her return heart disease again gave trouble, and a lingering illness set in which gradually exhausted her vitality. She had left her house for the last time, as it proved, by special effort, as she did not feel well, to attend a meeting of the Deaconess' Society. At times hope of recovery seemed justified, but complications ensued and the end was a gradual sinking. On Tuesday morning, July 5th, her children and grandchildren were called to bid farewell. She rallied somewhat, but was weaker again in the afternoon, and slowly lapsed into unconsciousness; she died at half-past eight in the evening. The funeral, Friday afternoon, July 8th, was very largely attended by friends and relatives from near and far. Her mortal remains were reverently laid to rest in the family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, between the graves of her husband and her son Esra Carl. "So strong, so gentle, a life full of love and good works, which invokes sweet memories, not of sorrow, but of joy and hope," said, of her, a close personal friend. The memory of her useful, noble life remains a blessing to generation upon generation of her descendants.

About fourteen years ago our dear mother planted, in the centre of the little public green in the bend of Margaret Avenue near her house, a northern oak sapling, brought from Georgian Bay. This oak, now becoming a stately tree, is typical of her character-strong, steadfast, beautiful.

Surviving are four sisters, four sons, two daughters, twenty-five grandchildren, the youngest born in her house during her last illness, and two great-grandchildren.

An item from the Toronto Globe, a biographical sketch from the Berliner Journal, a short biography and appreciation in the Christliche Botschafter, by her friend, the editor, Rev. G. Heinmiller, an extract from the Berlin Daily News of July 7th, 1880, relating to Louis Breithaupt, and a family register are appended.

BERLIN, ONT., March, 1911.

From the Globe, Toronto, Thursday, July 7, 1910:
DEATH OF MRS. BREITHAUPT.BERLIN'S OLDEST NATIVE RESIDENT AND A PROMINENT CHURCH WORKER.

BERLIN, Ont., July 6.- The death took place on Tuesday evening of Mrs. Catharine Breithaupt, relict of the late Louis Breithaupt, at the family residence on Margaret Avenue. The deceased had been ill since April with heart trouble.

The late Mrs. Breithaupt was born in 1834, and was Berlin's oldest native resident. Her parents immigrated to Canada in 1830, and were the first German settlers in Berlin. In 1853 she was married to the late Mr. Louis Breithaupt, who then resided in Buffalo. In 1861 they moved to Berlin and Mrs. Breithaupt has resided here ever since. Her husband died in 1880. She is survived by four sons and two daughters.
During her long residence in Berlin she has been connected with almost every charitable and philanthropic movement in the town. She was a life-long member of Zion Evangelical Church and one of its most liberal contributors. In addition to assisting in the erection of the new church, she also donated the beautiful organ in memory of her deceased husband and son Carl. She was a valued member of the various organizations of the church, and was also officially connected with the Deaconess' Society of the Canada Conference and of the General Board in Chicago.

From the Berlin Daily News, July 7, 1880.

MR. BREITHAUPT'S FUNERAL.

Without doubt the largest funeral that ever took place in the County of Waterloo was that of the late Mayor Breithaupt. Amongst those present were friends and relations from Detroit, Buffalo, New York, and other places in the States, the Warden of the County, the Mayors and Councils of Galt, Waterloo, Guelph, Stratford, &c., and nearly all the other leading citizens of the County of Waterloo. As previously stated in these columns, the funeral services commenced at the family residence, where the Revds. S. Weber and C. A. Spies led the devotions. After this the procession formed in the following order, headed by Mr. H. Anthes in a carriage:

The Town Police,
The Band,
The Fire Brigade,
The Employees,
The Clergy,
The Family Physician,
The Hearse,
The Family,
The other Mourners,
The Berlin Council,
Councils of other Places,
The Citizens.

The Police, Band, Firemen and employees were on foot, the rest in carriages. The pall bearers were H. Kranz, M.P., Ex-mayor, Wm. Jaffray, Reeve, and Councillors Clement, Staebler, Anthes and Moffat. The procession moved very slowly, the Band playing the Dead March in a most feeling and affecting manner. All along the route the streets were lined with people desirous of seeing the pageant move along. At the church only a very small portion of the people could get in, but a highly interesting and affecting service was held. The Rev. Joseph Umbach, an old friend and pastor of deceased, preached a very eloquent and powerful sermon in the German, and the Rev. S. L. Umbach made a short address in the English language. The service being concluded here, the procession was again formed and proceeded to the cemetery, where the pastor of the church, the Rev. J. Kliphardt, read the burial service. Amongst the clergy present were, in addition to those already mentioned, Revds. C. F. Braun, Geo. Braun, G. Staebler, M. L. Wing and J. Murlock from a distance, and Revds. Messrs. Fellman, Ford, Manz, Tait, Beaumont, Funcken and Sherk, of the Town. The mere mention of all these names is sufficient to show conclusively in what great esteem the late Mayor was held. In addition to what has already been given in these columns, we add the following particulars as furnished by the family : -Louis Breithaupt was born Nov. 8th, 1827, in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany. In 1842 his father emigrated to America, and in the following year returned to Germany and brought in his mother and himself. He was at this time 16 years old. He came to Buffalo, N.Y., where he carried on business on a very limited scale in company with his father. On the death of his father in 1851 he became a partner in the extensive tanning and leather business of Mr. J. F. Schoellkopf of Buffalo, travelling for this firm for 12 years. In 1858 he established his leather business in Berlin, and three years later, before the outbreak of the late American war, he removed with his family to Berlin, Canada. He was married in 1853, the three eldest sons being born in Buffalo, N.Y., and the rest of the family here. Three daughters and six sons are now living, and one son was accidentally drowned in July, 1871. He was burned out twice in Berlin. His mother, aged 79, is still living, as also his only sister who resides in Detroit.

FAMILY REGISTER.

Liborius Breithaupt was born in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany, in 1797; died, Buffalo, N.Y., May, 1851. October 24th, 1826, he married Barbara Catharina Goetze, born October 19th, 1801, died, Berlin, Ont., Canada, January, 1887. Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Liborius Brei-thaupt was by occupation a light-leather tanner. In January, 1844, after a preliminary voyage to and stay in America for apparently about a year, he brought over his family, wife and son, and settled in Buffalo, N.Y. His own account is: …. [Written in German and not included]

Liborius and Catharina Breithaupt had issue:

Philip Louis, afterward known as Louis Breithaupt, born in Allendorf a.W., November 8th, 1827; died, Berlin, Ont., July 3rd, 1880.

Marie Elisabeth Friederika, born June 14th, 1829, died May 13th, 1834.

Catharina, born, Buffalo, N.Y., February 18th, 1847; married, March 3rd, 1864, Jacob Raquet, who died in Detroit, Mich., 1887. Issue: William Jacob, born 1867; Clara Maria, 1869; Edward David, 1870; Henrietta Catharine Philomene, 1873; Emilie Louise, 1875; and Joseph John Louis, 1876.

Louis Breithaupt, married February 8th, 1853, Catharine Hailer (parents, Jacob and Margaret Hailer, see p. 4), born August 16th, 1834, Berlin, and there died July 5th, 1910. Issue:

Louis Jacob, born March 3rd, 1855; married, April 5th, 1881, Emma Alvarene Devitt, born Waterloo, Ont., October 17th, 1860. Children:

Louise Evelyn, born June 11th, 1882; married, October 31st, 1906, John Roland Parry, M.D., born Dunnville, Ont., June 13th, 1879; children: Margaret Magdalen Lilian, born August 4th, 1907, and Emma Elizabeth, born May 25th, 1910.
Emma Lilian, born May 28th, 1884.
Martha Edna, born July 26th, 1885.
Rosa Melvina, born June 19th, 1887.
Louis Orville, born October 28th, 1890.
William Walter, born June 7th, 1894.
Catharine Olive, born January 28th, 1896.
Paul Theodore, born September 9th, 1903.

William Henry, born January 25th, 1857; married, February 1st, 1898, Martha Cunningham Murphy, born Montreal, Que., July 24th, 1865. Children:
Philip William, born New York, December 16th, 1898.
Margaret Catharine, born Berlin, Ont., October 4th, 1901.
Martha Elizabeth, born Berlin, Ont., April 29th, 1906.

John Christian, born February 27th, 1859; married, January 27th, 1892, Caroline Catharine Anthes, born Berlin, Ont., Sep-tember 29th, 1868. Children:
John Edward, born December 8th, 1892.
Louise Catharine, born September 29th, 1894.
Carl Louis, born July 27th, 1896.
Frieda Carolina, born March 30th, 1898.
Walter Hailer, born November 20th, 1901.
Helena Esther, born September 23rd, 1908.

Caroline Margaret Barbara, born November 17th, 1861; married, August 3rd, 1887, Albert Benjamin Augustine, M.A., born March 6th, 1859, Racine, Wis., and there died April 12th, 1909. Children, born Racine, Wis.:
Albert William, October 26th, 1890.
Laurene Catharine, May 31st, 1894.
Grace Melvina Louisa, September 12th, 1895.

Melvina Emilia, born February 8th, 1863; married, June 25th, 1901, Amos Franklyn Baumann, M.D., born Waterloo Township, near Bloomingdale, Ont., September 29th, 1857. One child:
Eduard Franklyn Breithaupt, born, Waterloo, Ont., June 21st, 1904.

Esra Carl, born February 19th, 1866; died January 27th, 1897.

Daniel Edward, born October 30th, 1868; died July 9th, 1871.

Albert Liborius, born November 3rd, 1870; married, July 2nd, 1901, Lydia Louise Anthes, born Berlin, Ont., March 27th, 1877. Children:
Friedrich Albert, born July 29th, 1902.
Martha Marie Louise, born December 15th, 1903.
Rudolph Anthes, born October 21st, 1906.
Ruth Anna Catharine, born April 12th, 1910.

Catharina Louise, born December 3rd, 1872; died April 14th, 1886.
Friederich Adolph, born March 25th, 1875; died June 21st, 1882.

Sketch of the Life of Catharine Breithaupt, her family and times, Berlin, Ontario, 1911

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King Street , North Side

Frederick Street.

Bishop Benjamin Eby's farm came to the corner of King and Frederick Streets. Next to Frederick Street, Frederick and William Miller erected a frame building and used it as a general store. After the grading operations spoken of this building had to undergo the same process as the St. Nicholas Hotel. It was considered a fine building in its day with large windows on each side of the centre door. Henry Stroh finally bought the building and tore it down in 1868. Jacob Stroh has some of the window sash, shutters, stairway, etc., still in his possession. Later the building was occupied by Jacob Eckstein cigar maker and tobacco dealer. Mrs. Warren with a family lived on the second story for a number of years.

Vacant lot. Next a large brick building with double deck porch along the front, the Queen's Arms Hotel, built about 1840 and continued as a hotel until about 1860. A Mr. Butchard was the first landlord and later Levi Weber. From this hotel the first omnibus met the trains at the G.T.R. station in Berlin in 1856. Before that day it was a stopping place of stage coaches operating from Hamilton and Galt to Berlin and beyond. The old Queen's Arms long vacant and practically ruined as a building was sold finally and made room for the Market Building and Town Hall in 1869.*

Next we come to the John Roos house. This also had a double-deck veranda with heavy posts as was the style 1840-50. The building was later turned into a hotel known as the Market Hotel and kept by Casper Heller.

A lot with a log cabin in the rear, occupied by Jacob Sauer, who had come from Pennsylvania, father of Mrs. John Roat.

* See 1922 Annual Report W. H. S., p. 210.

A harness shop occupied by John Roat, then by his son John and later by John Haugh, a son-in-law of John Roat.

A garden. A dwelling, 4 or 5 feet lower than the street which had been filled up, where lived the Susand family. Mrs. Susand had a reputation with juveniles for tarts and molasses taffy sold in lc. bars. Her children were in the habit of selling these wares to passengers at the G.T.R. station. After her husband's death about 1860, widow Susand moved her shop to Foundry Street North, and there continued until she died. Susand was an ex-slave. In 1857 at a nomination meeting for Council, he was nominated and stood a good chance of being elected, as a joke. However, the more thoughtful element among the voters prevailed.

A two story, frame building, lengthwise with King Street, built in the '30's. After street grading this had to be raised so that what had before been the ground floor became the cellar or basement.

A house occupied by Wm. Hawke,-known as Bill Hawke- a mason. A stout, easy-going man. His wife was in the habit of standing in the door way, with white lace cap, smoking a clay pipe. The east end of this building was occupied by Winters, a hatter, the first hat maker in Berlin. He made the old style, broad brim, Mennonite hats in fashion up to about 1845. At the corner of Scott stood a brick building of good size with gable toward King Street, used to stable the first fire teams for a number of years. Later John Wagner had a waggon shop above and George Ward a blacksmith shop underneath. Scott Street was, however, not opened until many years later.

A one and one-half story building rough cast, gable facing King St., occupied by H. W. Peterson, who began publishing the "Canada Museum", in 1835 and so continued until 1840 when he went to Guelph as first Registrar of the County of Wellington. This was the first newspaper published in Waterloo County.

Jacob Hailer's house, a one and one-half story, frame building with porch along the front partly enclosed by lattice work. In this house was born in 1834, Catherine Hailer, who married Louis Breithaupt. She is said to have been the first child born in Berlin of parents who came from Germany. Hailer's barn was some distance back from the street and next along on the street front was his shop where he manufactured spinning wheels, etc., and chairs which had a large distribution. Hailer was an expert wood turner. He had two foot-power lathes and a number of German assistants from time to time, continuing his shop for about 40 years.

A two story frame building lengthwise with King Street, erected by Dr. John Scott. He had a drug store with two good-sized windows at the front. On the east gable of the building was a sign, "Med. Hall" in large letters. The sign was legible long after Dr. Scott's death. The doctor pursued his practice on horseback for which he used three horses. He was the first medical practitioner in Berlin, coming in 1834, at the time of the cholera epidemic. For a few years before he was married he boarded at the Gaukel Hotel. His later house, after the one described, is still standing on Weber Street at the rear of the Kitchener Public Library.

The old Scott house on King Street was later occupied by Franz Martin who kept a saloon. Martin had a musical family, with the zither as their principal instrument, which all the children could play.

A one and one-half story, frame building, painted, occupied by Anslm Wagner, a potter.

A brick building 1 ½ story lengthwise with King Street, the west end of which was John Eby's drug store, the rest of the building being his dwelling. This was the first regular drug store in Berlin.

A brick building with a frame extension in the rear used by David Eby as a pump shop. Part of the brick building is still standing, the rest having been cut olT for the opening of Eby Street North.

A one story hip roof brick cottage occupied by Geo. Eby, a Notary, who came to Canada in 1804. He died in this house. A considerable fish story is told of how he followed a sturgeon in the Conestoga River, part of Grand River, and finally speared it.

A one and one-half story building, probably rough cast, occupied by Hy. Wurm, a carpenter employed at the Simpson factory.

A two story brick building painted red occupied by Henry S. Huber.'

A handsome brick building, two story, with veranda along the front and ground floor considerably above the street level, with broad steps, the width of the building, leading to it, was built in 1850. Some time later it was occupied by Casper Heller and known as the Royal Exchange hotel. Following the old custom its swinging sign had "Last Chance" on the side toward the village and "First Chance" outward, referring to liquid refreshments. Heller kept a good hotel and had also a large shed and ham next east of the hotel.

On the corner a steam grist mill was erected, about 1860. Louis Seyler, a German, was the miller. The custom was for farmers to bring in their wheat to have it ground, getting in return flour, bran and middlings, the miller retaining his toll. Later Lehnen & Shelly operated this mill.

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

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97641375
• Eby ID Number: 00030-2325
• Residence: 1857, Lancaster, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Elected Office: 1865, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Councillor - Waterloo City
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Elected Office: 1873, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Waterloo City - councillor
• Elected Office: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mayor - Waterloo
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Swedenborgian
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Inspector
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Inspector

Notes:

Benjamin Devitt, "was born July 10th, 1835. He is married to Nancy Bowman. They reside in the town of Waterloo. He holds the position of Inspector of Hotels. They have a family of eight children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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BENJAMIN DEVITT- PASSES AWAY

The death of Mr. Benjamin Devitt who passed away on Sunday at his home on Erb Street removed another estimable and worthy citizen who say the town grow from a small hamlet to its present population. Especially during the early years of the town's history he took an active interest in Municipal affairs and was prominently identified with various organizations of the town.

The end came peacefully Sunday evening at six o' clock. After an illness of two years ago his health became less robust, being affected by hardening of the arteries. He, however, was able to be about until January last when he broke his hip bone while alighting from a cutter after a drive. Since the accident he was confined to his bed almost constantly being unable to walk owing to the injury. About two months ago, he suffered a paralytic stroke which was followed by several others. On Monday night another stroke left him in a very critical condition and he lingered until Sunday evening.

The funeral was held on Wednesday at 2 o'clock from his late residence, Erb Street East, Waterloo to the Emmanuel Evangelical Church for service, then to Mount Hope cemetery where the remains were interred.

Mr. Devitt was the third son of the late Barnabas Devitt and was born July 10, 1835 on the old homestead of Mrs. C. Kumpf, King Street. He followed the occupation of miller with his father at Bridgeport for a number of years and during his residence here was married to Miss Nancy Bowman. They later removed to Waterloo where Mr. Devitt erected the Devitt Block and conducted a general store for fifteen years when he disposed of the business. He afterwards became License Inspector for North Waterloo which position he held for about fifteen years.

Elmira Advertiser Sep 8 1910

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THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE

An interesting meeting took place the Saturday before last in the old log cabin in Waterloo Park.

This house was, of course, the first schoolhouse in this area and stood originally on the school-house square at the corner of King and Church Streets in Waterloo. It was built in 1820 and served its purpose until 1842, when it was torn down and a 1-storey stone house was constructed on the site. The dismantled log house was erected again in Greenbush and served as a residence for a long time for the coloured man, Mr. Carroll and his family. In the course of this year, the Waterloo Park Commissioners purchased the house, moved it to their park and furnished it again as it was when it was a school-house.

At this gathering, in addition to many other ladies and gentlemen, the following (male and female) former pupils attended, took their places on the benches, and were called to order by the 82-year-old teacher, Benjamin Burkholder, who held the scepter, or rather, the switch, from 1831 to 1842 in the old log-house: Joel Guth, 80 years old; Abraham Scherk, Blair, 79; Jakob Bricker, Waterloo, 77; Sarah Burkholder, nee Erb, Bridgeport, 75; Amos Weber, Berlin, 73; John C, Bricker, Hawksville, 71; Maria Erb, nee Quickfall, Norwich 69; David B. Eby, Waterloo, 69; Wendel Baumann, Woolwich, 68; Henry Stauffer, Erbsville, 67; Simon Beatty, Elmira, 67; Jakob Ratz, New Hamburg, 67; Israel Baumann, Berlin, 65; George Elbert, Moorefield, 63; George H. Baumann, Elmira, 63; John Devitt, Waterloo, 62; Richard Quickfall, Bridgeport, 62; Isaak Hoffmann, Waterloo, 61; Robert Barkwell, Peel, 60; Diana McMahon, nee Dekay, Berlin, 60; Thomas Quickfall, Floradale, 60; Benjamin Devitt, Waterloo, 60; Isaak Devitt, Floradale, 58; John Longmann, Peel, 57. In addition, to these, the teacher read the names of 25 pupils from the roll; they were, however, absent.

Mr. Burkholder gave an interesting talk about the history of the old school-house, and after him, Rev. J.A. MacLachlan, Rev. J. McNair, Mr. J.E. Baumann, M.P., and Mr. Jakob Ratz spoke about the old days which brought many things out of the past to mind again. School was, as a rule, only in session in winter and the costs were borne by the parents of the children. There were few subjects taught, namely: Reading, Writing and Sums. The children heard little about language, and geography; no child had more than 2 or 3 books. The predominant language was German. The pupils learned to read and write English, but didn't understand a word of it. Among the teachers in the old school-house from 1820-1842, with the exception of Mr. Burkholder, were the following whose names are still recognized: Jephtha DeKay, Joseph Guth, John Herringer, Peter Otto, John Dobbin, Elias Eby, Robert Barber, & Joseph Eby.

After those present, on hearing the various speeches felt themselves transported back to the past, the school was closed at four o'clock and the pupils were gathered together in front of the school and photographed as a group. On their return into the school, they found it had been transformed into a dining room with heavily-laden tables, which the old-timers thoroughly enjoyed. After everyone had chatted cordially for a while longer, the gathering broke up. The company will not meet again in complete numbers, nor in such a way.

Berliner Journal September 26, 1895 Page 4 Column 4

Rsrch. Note:
Benjamin Devitt, 1835 - 1913

Born in the village of Bridgeport in 1835 the son of a grist mill operator, Benjamin Devitt was a businessman. In partnership with local postmaster Daniel Snyder, Devitt constructed what became known as the Devitt-Snyder Block on King Street in 1860. From this location Devitt operated a general store that was later taken over by his younger brother Menno. He was also employed as the hotel building inspector for Waterloo for a number of years. Devitt was instrumental in the formation of the Waterloo Musical Society and became the founding president in 1882. He also served on the board of The Mechanics Institute and in 1888, with the transfer of the Institute's assets, he continued on the new municipal library board. Active in local politics, Devitt served on the Village of Waterloo Council from 1865-1866 and from 1873-1876. Five years after the incorporation of the Town of Waterloo, Devitt was elected mayor. One of the most debated issues during Devitt's three year term in office was the plan to purchase a steam fire engine and construct a new fire hall for the Town, a project that was not completed until he left office. In 1882, during Devitt's second year as mayor, The Grand Trunk Railway finally completed a branch line to Waterloo following extensive negotiations and council involvement.Taken from the City of Waterloo Website 2005
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Benjamin married Nancy Lewis Bowman 29 Sep 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Nancy (daughter of Henry William Bowman and Amanda Melvina Lewis) was born 1 Jan 1839, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 28 May 1921; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Nancy Lewis Devitt
• Eby ID Number: 00002-429
• Residence: 1857, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Nancy Bowman, "was born January 1st, 1839. She is married to Benjamin Devitt, Inspector of Hotels. They reside in the town of Waterloo. Their family consists of eight children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: dnf-79461

Liborius — Catherine Goetze. Catherine was born CALC 19 Oct 1801, , Germany; died 12 Jan 1887, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Catherine Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138762
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist

Other Events:

• Interesting: honoured, business, story, religion
• Possesions: Cane of John Jacob Hailer
• Name: Jacob Hailer
• Name: Jakob Hailer
• Name: John Jacob Hailer
• Residence: Evangelical Gemeinshaft Association, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24450
• Immigration: 1829, Baltimore, Baltimore (City), Maryland, USA
• Immigration: 1830, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; wheelwright
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; wheel wright
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wheelwright
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wheelright
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Breithaupt is a daughter of Jacob Hailer, a native of Baden, Germany. He left the old country in 1829, and after spending one year in Baltimore, Maryland, came to Canada, and settled where the town of Berlin now stands. That was just fifty years ago. He built the fifth or sixth house in the place, and followed the wheelwright business till a few years ago, his specialty being spinning wheels and reels. He is in his 76th year, and somewhat deaf and infirm. His wife is also living, and quite smart and active. Mr. Hailer is a prominent member of the Evangelical Association, and has long been an officer of the same.

The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Ontario Volume, 1880

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Zion United Church

A Sunday School was established in Berlin in 1837, meeting in Jacob Hailer's carpenter shop which was located at the southeast corner of what is now King and Scott Streets. A mission was begun by Rev. Christian Holl shortly after his arrival in Berlin on May 9, 1839, and a class (or congregation) was organized several months later on August 29, 1839 by Bishop John Seybert of the Evangelical Association during a camp meeting held at David Erb's farm near Lexington. John Hoffman was the Berlin class leader; his brother, Jacob, was class leader for the Waterloo-Lexington congregation. The Berlin congregation met in the old Town Hall until their first church was built in 1841 on Queen Street South across from Church Street on land purchased as of August 24, 1841 from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schneider. The church was dedicated on September 25th of that year, with Rev. Christian Hummel of Buffalo, New York, officiating. Rev. Joseph Harlacher was pastor from 1840-1842. In 1842 the Waterloo Mission became a Circuit of the East Pennsylvania Conference. Two years later it was part of the New York Conference.

The second church building was built of brick on the same site in 1866, and dedicated in 1867; Rev. C.A. Spies was pastor at the time. The old frame church was sold and moved to Elgin Street where it was used as a dwelling. In the same year Berlin became a station.

The present church building was built in 1893 on Weber Street; dedication services were held on June 15, 16 and 17, 1894. This building was heavily damaged by fires in 1942 and 1965 but was renovated and restored each time.

The union of the Evangelical Church and the United Brethren in Christ Church on November 16, 1946 created the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The name of the church was to change again, to Zion United Church when the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on January 1, 1968.

Of interest: some maps of early Berlin show this church as a German Methodist church.


Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose

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Jacob Hailer was born in Wilferdingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, in 1804, came to Waterloo Township in 1832, bought his first acre of land in Berlin from Bishop Benjamin Eby in 1833 and at once established himself as proprietor of a chair and spinning wheel shop, in which he did a modest but flourishing business for well over forty years. He was instrumental in establishing in Canada the religious denomination known as the Evangelical Association, whose regular place of worship for some time, until a church was built, was in Hailer's shop. The first church of this denomination in Canada was built in 1841, on Queen street south, opposite the end of Church street, Berlin. This was a frame building, replaced in 1866 by one of brick and moved to Elgin street, where it still exists as a dwelling. The present church on Weber street is the third building of this denomination in Berlin. Jacob Hailer died in 1882

First Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1913

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Jacob Hailer of Wilferdingen, Grand Duchy of Baden, bought an acre of land at the southeast corner of King and Scott Streets in 1832 from Bishop Ben Eby. A stretch of forest stood on the other side of King Street. Mr. Hailer built a home on his purchase and next a chair and spinning-wheel shop. At first he used a foot lathe to do his turning. Samples of his chairs and spinning-wheel may be seen in the Waterloo Historical Society's Museum. Mr. Hailer was the grandfather of a prominent city family, and actively engaged in business for more than forty years.

A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pp 33-34

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King Street , North Side

Frederick Street.

Bishop Benjamin Eby's farm came to the corner of King and Frederick Streets. Next to Frederick Street, Frederick and William Miller erected a frame building and used it as a general store. After the grading operations spoken of this building had to undergo the same process as the St. Nicholas Hotel. It was considered a fine building in its day with large windows on each side of the centre door. Henry Stroh finally bought the building and tore it down in 1868. Jacob Stroh has some of the window sash, shutters, stairway, etc., still in his possession. Later the building was occupied by Jacob Eckstein cigar maker and tobacco dealer. Mrs. Warren with a family lived on the second story for a number of years.

Vacant lot. Next a large brick building with double deck porch along the front, the Queen's Arms Hotel, built about 1840 and continued as a hotel until about 1860. A Mr. Butchard was the first landlord and later Levi Weber. From this hotel the first omnibus met the trains at the G.T.R. station in Berlin in 1856. Before that day it was a stopping place of stage coaches operating from Hamilton and Galt to Berlin and beyond. The old Queen's Arms long vacant and practically ruined as a building was sold finally and made room for the Market Building and Town Hall in 1869.*

Next we come to the John Roos house. This also had a double-deck veranda with heavy posts as was the style 1840-50. The building was later turned into a hotel known as the Market Hotel and kept by Casper Heller.

A lot with a log cabin in the rear, occupied by Jacob Sauer, who had come from Pennsylvania, father of Mrs. John Roat.

* See 1922 Annual Report W. H. S., p. 210.

A harness shop occupied by John Roat, then by his son John and later by John Haugh, a son-in-law of John Roat.

A garden. A dwelling, 4 or 5 feet lower than the street which had been filled up, where lived the Susand family. Mrs. Susand had a reputation with juveniles for tarts and molasses taffy sold in lc. bars. Her children were in the habit of selling these wares to passengers at the G.T.R. station. After her husband's death about 1860, widow Susand moved her shop to Foundry Street North, and there continued until she died. Susand was an ex-slave. In 1857 at a nomination meeting for Council, he was nominated and stood a good chance of being elected, as a joke. However, the more thoughtful element among the voters prevailed.

A two story, frame building, lengthwise with King Street, built in the '30's. After street grading this had to be raised so that what had before been the ground floor became the cellar or basement.

A house occupied by Wm. Hawke,-known as Bill Hawke- a mason. A stout, easy-going man. His wife was in the habit of standing in the door way, with white lace cap, smoking a clay pipe. The east end of this building was occupied by Winters, a hatter, the first hat maker in Berlin. He made the old style, broad brim, Mennonite hats in fashion up to about 1845. At the corner of Scott stood a brick building of good size with gable toward King Street, used to stable the first fire teams for a number of years. Later John Wagner had a waggon shop above and George Ward a blacksmith shop underneath. Scott Street was, however, not opened until many years later.

A one and one-half story building rough cast, gable facing King St., occupied by H. W. Peterson, who began publishing the "Canada Museum", in 1835 and so continued until 1840 when he went to Guelph as first Registrar of the County of Wellington. This was the first newspaper published in Waterloo County.

Jacob Hailer's house, a one and one-half story, frame building with porch along the front partly enclosed by lattice work. In this house was born in 1834, Catherine Hailer, who married Louis Breithaupt. She is said to have been the first child born in Berlin of parents who came from Germany. Hailer's barn was some distance back from the street and next along on the street front was his shop where he manufactured spinning wheels, etc., and chairs which had a large distribution. Hailer was an expert wood turner. He had two foot-power lathes and a number of German assistants from time to time, continuing his shop for about 40 years.

A two story frame building lengthwise with King Street, erected by Dr. John Scott. He had a drug store with two good-sized windows at the front. On the east gable of the building was a sign, "Med. Hall" in large letters. The sign was legible long after Dr. Scott's death. The doctor pursued his practice on horseback for which he used three horses. He was the first medical practitioner in Berlin, coming in 1834, at the time of the cholera epidemic. For a few years before he was married he boarded at the Gaukel Hotel. His later house, after the one described, is still standing on Weber Street at the rear of the Kitchener Public Library.

The old Scott house on King Street was later occupied by Franz Martin who kept a saloon. Martin had a musical family, with the zither as their principal instrument, which all the children could play.

A one and one-half story, frame building, painted, occupied by Anslm Wagner, a potter.

A brick building 1 ½ story lengthwise with King Street, the west end of which was John Eby's drug store, the rest of the building being his dwelling. This was the first regular drug store in Berlin.

A brick building with a frame extension in the rear used by David Eby as a pump shop. Part of the brick building is still standing, the rest having been cut olT for the opening of Eby Street North.

A one story hip roof brick cottage occupied by Geo. Eby, a Notary, who came to Canada in 1804. He died in this house. A considerable fish story is told of how he followed a sturgeon in the Conestoga River, part of Grand River, and finally speared it.

A one and one-half story building, probably rough cast, occupied by Hy. Wurm, a carpenter employed at the Simpson factory.

A two story brick building painted red occupied by Henry S. Huber.'

A handsome brick building, two story, with veranda along the front and ground floor considerably above the street level, with broad steps, the width of the building, leading to it, was built in 1850. Some time later it was occupied by Casper Heller and known as the Royal Exchange hotel. Following the old custom its swinging sign had "Last Chance" on the side toward the village and "First Chance" outward, referring to liquid refreshments. Heller kept a good hotel and had also a large shed and ham next east of the hotel.

On the corner a steam grist mill was erected, about 1860. Louis Seyler, a German, was the miller. The custom was for farmers to bring in their wheat to have it ground, getting in return flour, bran and middlings, the miller retaining his toll. Later Lehnen & Shelly operated this mill.

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

Johann — Margareth Riehl. Margareth was born 13 Oct 1807, Muehlhausen, , Bayern, Germany; died 9 Jun 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Margareth Hailer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24451
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55219191
• Historic Building: 38 Bridge St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: Bridgeport (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; miller
• Eby ID Number: 00030-2322
• Historic Building: Abt 1812, 172 King St. S., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Erb Kumpf House
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 027W, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Historic Building: 1849, 36 Young St. W., Waterloo, Ontario; Dr. Voelker House
• Residence: 1849, 36 Young St. W., Waterloo, Ontario
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Elected Office: 1858, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Waterloo Township
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

Notes:

Barnabus Devitt, "the fourth son of his father, Dennis Devitt, was born in New Jersey, U.S., March 25th, 1807. He came to Canada with his parents in 1817 and settled on the old "Daniel C. Snyder Farm" west of the town of Waterloo. After the decease of his mother he was adopted by old Abraham Erb who raised him. He was only 11 years of age when he came to Erb's. On May 1st 1831, he was married to Magdalena Shoemaker who was born November 20th, 1811. In 1829 she came to Canada with her mother and family. Mr. and Mrs. Devitt resided in the town of Waterloo until 1851 when they moved to Bridgeport where he and Elias Eby entered into partnership in the milling business. After being in business for some years, he sold his interest to the late Jacob B. Eby and purchased the beautiful farm now in possession of Tilman Shantz. Here he resided until a few years previous to his death when he again moved to the town of Waterloo to spend the close of his life. He died January 20th, 1891. They had a family of twelve children" Barnabas Devitt, "(Vol. I, No. 2322) came to Canada in 1812 and came to Waterloo in 1815."


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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Devitt, Barnabus, retired farmer. Is a native of New Jersey. Born, 1807. Moved to this county in 1815.

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

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The Silver Thread Lofts on Devitt Avenue is a different addition to the ever growing list of condo projects in this city. It is only three storeys high with underground parking for 15 units. It is nestled into the quiet, tree-shaded environs at 15 Devitt Ave. S. in the historic Mary-Allen Neighbourhood....The development is called The Silver Thread Lofts. This area of the city was once owned by Barnabus Devitt, who had a radish farm on the site. Later, the Silver Thread Kraut Company made sauerkraut here...

Waterloo Region Record 14 Oct 2011

Historic Building:
Built in 1840 by Jacob S. Shoemaker across from the mill he constructed in 1830. In 1969 the house with stone foundation and handmade brick walls was listed in fair to poor condition. The roof was framed with mortise and tenon joining. The house was a combination of Georgian proportions and classical decorations. The large dormers were reminiscent of early buildings in Pennsylvania. In 1850 the house was sold to Elias Eby together with the mill complex. The house was been renovated a number of times. The porch was removed and the house converted into a tri-plex by 1969. Barnabus Devitt was also a propietor with Elias Eby.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Bridgeport Mill, a non-dated (probably 1969) type written manuscript located at Doon Heritage Crossroads 2009

Historic Building:
The original portion of the Erb-Kumpf House was built around 1812 by Abraham Erb, the founder of Waterloo, making it one of Waterloo's oldest homes. It was a three-bay structure facing a mill situated near the south-west corner of King and Erb Streets.
Abraham Erb came from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1806 and settled on Lots 14 and 15 of the German Company Tract, land which now comprises the central business district of Waterloo. He established a sawmill on Beaver (Laurel) Creek in 1808 and a grist mill in 1816. In 1828, he sold his mills and a considerable quantity of land to Jacob C. Snider.
Magdalene Erb sold the home to Barnabas Devitt, her adopted son, in 1835. His son Benjamin served as Mayor of Waterloo from 1881 to 1883.
An addition to the house was probably built by Devitt in 1849. A slight hump in the roof on the north side indicates the location at which it joins the original structure. The application of a vertical board and clapboard which does not align is further evidence that it was added at a later date. The second addition, probably built by Hoffman around 1855, included the two-storey verandah at the front.

Elias Snider acquired the home and later sold it to Christian Kumpf in 1869. Kumpf was a newspaper owner, Mayor of Waterloo from 1879-1880, as well as Postmaster for 42 years. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Dominion Life Assurance Company in 1889. His son Ford, who became affectionately known as "Mr. Waterloo", was born in the home in 1877 and assumed ownership in 1899. One of the community's most public-spirited citizens, he served as Treasurer of Waterloo and Clerk/Manager of the Water and Light Commission. He was President of the Waterloo Red Cross Society and The Dominion Life Assurance Company.
At present, the house demonstrates a mixture of architectural styles. Among its Georgian characteristics is the six-over-six window pane arrangement. The facade, with its two wings, treillage, Gothic barge board and Doric columns, reflects the Regency influence.
In 1979, the home was sold to a law firm which has maintained the integrity of the exterior. A third addition in keeping with the style of the building has since been constructed.<sup>1a

1a</sup>Designated Properties www. waterloo.ca

Historic Building:
Constructed by Barnabus Devitt in 1849 and sold to Elias Snider in 1851.

Barnabas married Magdalena Shoemaker 1 May 1831, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Magdalena (daughter of Johannes "John" Schumacher and Maria "Mary" Shantz) was born 20 Nov 1811, Frederick Twp., Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania; died 12 Nov 1907, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55219293
• Name: Magdalena Devitt
• Eby ID Number: 00112-7023
• Immigration: 1829, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Magdalena Shoemaker, "was born November 20th, 1811. In 1829 she came to Canada with her mother and family. On May 1st, 1831, she was married to Barnabas Devitt who was born March 25th, 1807, and died January 20th, 1891."

Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

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In Memoriam Died. At Waterloo, Tuesday Nov. 12th, 1907, Mrs. Barnabas Devitt, Aged 95 years, 11 months and 22 days. The Funeral Will take place from the residence of Mr. Benjamin Devitt, at 1.30 o'clock, Friday afternoon, Nov. 15th, to Emanuel Evangelical Church, Waterloo, for service, thence to the East End Mennonite Cemetery, Berlin, for interment. Friends and acquaintances will please accept this intimation.

Funeral Card

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MRS. BARNABAS DEVITT PASSED AWAY ON TUESDAY

Ninety-Six Years of Age and Waterloo's Oldest Resident. Generally Respected and Loved.

The death of one of Waterloo's most estimable in the person of Mrs. Barnabus Devitt, removes one of the early pioneers who has witnessed the growth of the town from a small struggling hamlet of a few houses nestling in the midst of the woods to the Waterloo of today. Although in her 96th year the aged lady enjoyed splendid health up to a week ago Saturday, attending service at the Mennonite church on Thanksgiving Day. However, she fortunately contracted pleurisy and had been confined to her bed since that time. The malady terminated fatally, and she passed peacefully away at 6.30 A. M. Tuesday at the ripe old age of 95 years, 11 months and 22 days.

Mrs. Devitt, whose maiden name was Magdalena Shoemaker, was a member of a long-lived and highly respected family and was the daughter of the late John Shoemaker, She was born in Pennsylvania, U.S. on Nov 20th, 1811, and would have celebrated her 96th birthday on the 20th of this month. She came to Waterloo in the year 1829 with her mother and family, traversing the distance in one of the old-fashioned Wagons used in those times. Two years later she was married to the late Barnabas Devitt and they resided for a time in Waterloo, afterwards removing to Bridgeport, where her husband purchased the mill at that place. It was later disposed and the family again moved to this place where she has almost continuously resided.

As one of the early pioneers Mrs. Devitt saw the transition of this sparsely settled community to the present prosperous town of Waterloo and often recounted experiences of early days conditions which
prevailed in those primitive times. On the journey to the new home in this county from Pennsylvania, the distance was made with horse and wagon, the mother of Mrs. Devitt travelling on horseback. They had several cows with them which supplied milk and butter was churned right on the wagon as they went along. The route lay over mountains, across rivers, through swamps and over roads almost impassable and in many places did not exist at all.

The passage over the Niagara River was made in a scow as there was no bridge across at that time. When the family arrived here Waterloo to consisted of a mill store, and a few houses, and the surrounding vicinity was all woodland. Mr. and Mrs. Barnabus Devitt for a goodly number of years resided on the site where the present residence of Mrs. C Kumpf now stands where Mr. Devitt had over 100 acres of farm land. After his retirement they removed to the old Barnabas Devitt property, now owned by Mr. Herold

Mr. Devitt died in 1891 and Mrs. Devitt has of late years made her home with her son, Mr. Benjamin Devitt.

The late Mrs. Devitt possessed those qualities of heart and mind which endeared her to all with whom she came in contact and was held in the highest regard not only by the members of her family but by all her acquaintances. She was unassuming. and of a sunny disposition and cheery presence and a wide circle of friends will sincerely mourn her demise. At the recent celebration of the 50th anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Devitt she was the oldest of the five generations represented.

Despite het great age she took a lively and intelligent interest in every day life and retained her mental and bodily vigor almost to the time of her death. The passing away of this pioneer in a community wherein she resided for many years and in which she was held in general esteem will learn with sorrow by her many friends but the legacy which she leaves behind in an upright, and long life of activity and usefulness filled with many kindnesses will remain as a precious memory to those who had grows to love and esteem her for her many good and many qualities.

The deceased was an adherent of the Evangelical Church for many years.

Twelve children were burn to Mã and Mrs. Devitt, six of whom survive, vis. Benjamin, Waterloo, David Berlin, Mary (Mrs. Jacob Wissler), Lyndhurst, Virginia, Barnabus Philadelphia, Menno, Waterloo, Louisa (Mrs. Jacob Smith) Fork's Road. The dead are John, Abram, Isaac, Jacob, and Magdalena, who died in infancy and Matthew, whose death occurred when four years old. Thirty grandchildren, twenty-one great grand children and one great great child survive.

The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon the at 1.30 o'clock from the residence Benj Devitt, to the Evangelical Church for service thence to the East End Mennonite Cemetery, Berlin for interment.

The Telegraph extends sincerest condolences to the bereaved family.


The Chronicle Telegraph (190101), 14 Nov 1907, p. 5

Other Events:

• Name: Heinrich Bauman
• Name: Henry W Bauman
• Name: Henry W. Bauman
• Eby ID Number: 00002-64
• Business: CONSTRUCTED 1835, 4 King St. N., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel - Farmer's Inn & Bowman House
• Residence: 1838, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; inn keeper
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Inn Keeper
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Henry W. Baumann, "was born February 25th, 1815, and died February 7th, 1883. Resided in the town of Waterloo. He was married to Amanda Lewis."

Henry W. Bowman, "son of Christian and Magdalena (Weber) Baumann, was born in Waterloo, February 25th, 1815. On June 12th, 1838, he was married to Amanda Melvina, daughter of Amasa and Mary (Brundige) Lewis. She was born in New Jersey, U. S., August 22nd, 1821. Came to Waterloo to Mr. Daniel Schneider's when she was four years of age. She died happy in the Lord, November 12th, 1878. Soon after their marriage they commenced to keep hotel in Waterloo. They were proprietors of the Bowman House for over thirty years. Their family consisted of twelve children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].


Business:
2 1/2 storey stucco over brick, burned in 1850, replaced by a similar structure and sold to W. Young in 1876.

Henry married Amanda Melvina Lewis 12 Jun 1838, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Amanda (daughter of Amasa Lewis and Mary Brundage) was born 22 Aug 1821, , New Jersey; died 12 Nov 1878, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Amanda Melvina Bowman
• Name: Mandy Lewis
• Eby ID Number: 00002-64.1
• Residence: 1838, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wesley Methodist
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical