Arthur Liborius Breithaupt

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-242622
• Residence: 1935, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1955, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1963, 97 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1968, 84 Rushholme Rd., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Arthur married Martha Anne Frisbie 27 Mar 1936. Martha was born 1914; died 1969; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Arthur — Betty Anne Combs. Betty was born 1915; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Trunk and Bag Co.
• Employer: Breithaupt Leather Co., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Historic Building: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Interesting: business, death
• Land: Honey Harbour, Baxter Township, Muskoka District, Ontario, Canada; Cottage
• Name: A. L. Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183884P
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Elected Office: 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener Council
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printigrapher Leather Business
• Occupation: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Secretary-Treasurer - The Berlin Rubber Co. Ltd.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1912, 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Baggage
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Albert Breithaupt Drowns, Wife Pulled From Lake
Well-known Kitchener Resident Disappears With Sinking Boat

HONEY HARBOR, Ont (CP)-Albert Breithaupt, 84-year-old Kitchener industrialist, was drowned yesterday in a boat collision near this Georgian Bay resort area. He was an uncle of Louis O. Breithaupt, lieutenant-governor of Ontario. Mr. Breithaupt's wife Gladys, who was in the boat when it sank, escaped unhurt and was pulled from the water. The accident scene was about seven miles north of Honey Harbor, which is 25 miles northwest of Orillia. Mr. Breithaupt had been vacationing at his cottage here.

LIFELONG RESIDENT

A life-long resident of Kitchener, Mr. Breithaupt once worked for the Breithaupt Leather Co. Ltd., which was founded by his father. It now is owned by the lieutenant-governor's family. He helped found and develop three other Kitchener companies. He leaves four sons and two daughters, Fred and Arthur of Kitchener, Rudolph of Waterloo, Dr. David, of Toronto, Mrs. H. E. Martin and Mrs. R. A. Gordon, of Toronto. His first wife predeceased him in 1942. The boat, a 16-foot craft with an inboard motor, overturned in the crash and Mr. Breithaupt disappeared before rescuers could reach him. He had been on his way to Whallen's island for supplies. It is believed he was trapped behind the wheel and was unable to free himself because of a hip condition. Search for the body is continuing.

NINTH AREA VICTIM

Mr. Breithaupt was the ninth Waterloo County resident to drown in the past month. Karen Winslade, 6, of Ayr, drowned in Ayra last Sunday. Arthur Weber, RR 2, Breslau his son Richard 9, and daughter Shirley, 12, were drowned in a pond June 29 near Hespeler. Five-year-old Andrew Pilkington drowned July while swimming in the Speed River near Hespeler. David Brenneman, 14, of Haysville, drowned in the Nith River July 16.

Mr. Breithaupt was the last surviving member of the family of the original Louis Breithaupt, and had lived all his live in the homestead built by his father in 1870. He remained active to the end of his life, his last business interest being in sales work with a company he started, the Shoe Findings Company. He helped found one of the city's first rubber industries in the building now a part of Dominion Rubber Company, Ltd. on Margaret Avenue. The factory on Young street now occupied by John Forsyth Ltd., once house a ladies wear firm which was developed by a group including Mr. Breithaupt. He also organized the former Berlin Trunk and Bag Company which is now occupied by the Greb Shoe Company. Interested in public life, he was an alderman for several years and unsuccessfully contested the mayoralty when Dr. J. E. Hett was elected.

A member of the high school board, he was especially interested in promoting manual training. In the early years of this community, Mr. Breithaupt was a member of the Berlin Light Commission. He was a member of Zion Evangelical UB Church and was on the denomination's board of Christian education. He taught in the Sunday school here for most of his life. An enthusiast in the early days of photography as a hobby, he returned to it in his later years and was an ardent color photography fan. Interested in woodworking, he made many pieces of furniture for his Georgian Bay cottage.

Mr. Breithaupt had spent each weekend this summer at his cottage, as well as some full weeks. However, he returned to make his regular calls on shoemakers in several communities between Galt and North Bay, driving his car on road trips in spite of his advanced age. He liked to retain his interest in the leather trade and found his sales trips valuable for this. His first wife, the former Louise Anthes, died in 1942. The present Mrs. Breithaupt was the former Gladys Baechler. Funeral arrangements have not been made pending finding of the body.



Kitchener-Waterloo Record- 23 Jul 1955 pg 3

Historic Building:
Waldeck house built by Louis Breithaupt, demolished in 1965.

Elected Office:
1899-1900, 1913-1914

Albert — Lydia Louisa "Louisa" Anthes. Lydia (daughter of John Schmidt Anthes and Lydia Catherine Herlan) was born 27 Mar 1877, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Jun 1942, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Louisa Anthes
• Name: Lydia Louisa "Louisa" Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183885
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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:

• Business: Anthes & Merner
• Business: Anthes Furniture Company, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anthes Manufacturing Company of Berlin
• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Novelty Works
• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Canada Furnitue Manufacturers Ltd.
• Interesting: pioneer, story, business, politics, public service
• Name: J. S. Anthes
• Name: John S. Anthes
• Occupation: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; undertaker - furniture maker
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30676P
• Residence: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1861, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Shoe Maker
• Residence: 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Bookkeeper
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Elected Office: 1880, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Councillor - Waterloo Township
• Elected Office: 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Kitchener
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Elected Office: 1882, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Councillor - Waterloo Township
• Business: 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Novelty Works
• Invention: 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; children's carriage
• Elected Office: 1886, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Councillor - Waterloo Township
• Elected Office: 1887, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Deputy Reeve - Waterloo Township
• Elected Office: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Deputy Reeve - Waterloo Township
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Elected Office: 1897, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Deputy Reeve - Waterloo Township
• Residence: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Furniture
• Residence: Between 1901 and 1903, 34 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1901, 44 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Elected Office: 1907, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Councillor - Waterloo Township
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Furniture
• Residence: 1911, 44 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Death of a Pioneer Furniture Maker

One of the oldest furniture manufacturers in Canada, and a pioneer in the industry in Berlin, died in that city on April 13th, in the person of John S. Anthes, president of the Anthes Furniture Co. Deceased was born in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario, November 8th, 1844, and was therefore in his 71st year. He received his education in the county schools, and later taught school for several years. In 1865, he went to Berlin, and was employed by the late Louis Breithaupt, founder of the leather and tanning business now carried on by the Breithaupt Leather Company Ltd. Mr. Anthes was employed as accountant and salesman for a number of years and later entered the furniture business being associated with some of the pioneer furiture manufacturers of Berlin, such as the late John Aldous and William Simpson. In 1884, he purchased the Berlin Novelty Works and carried on business in his own name for a number of years in the manufacture of children's carriages and patent slat chairs. In 1888, his factory was destroyed by fire, but was immediately rebuilt on a much larger scale. In this factory, Mr. Anthes began making the high grade furniture which has made his name known throughout Canada in the furniture trade. In 1901 he went into the amalgamation of furniture factories under the name of Canada Furniture Manufacturers Ltd., in which company he was a director and manager of the local factories for a number of years. In 1906, Mr. Anthes resigned as director of the Canada Furniture Manufacturers Ltd. and built the present large, modern factory at Berlin in partnership with J. C. Breithaupt, under the name of The Anthes Furniture Co., the product of this factory being exclusively high grade furniture. The late Mr. Anthes always took a keen interest in municipal affairs and served in council and on public boards for many years. He was known as a keen business man and successful manufacturer and his many friends throughout the country will sincerely mourn his departure. Mr. Anthes was married in 1867 to Miss L. Catherine Herlan who with one son J. I. Frank Anthes, and four daughters, Mrs. J. C. Breithaupt, Mrs. A. L. Breithaupt, Mrs. T. H. Reider [sic] and Mrs. H. M. Cook, and twenty grandchildren survive. A sister, Mrs. G. Strasser, of Sebringville, also survives. The late H. W. Anthes, who died recently in Toronto, was a brother. The funeral was held from his late residence thence to Zion Evangelical Church for service. The remains were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Canadian Furniture World and The Undertaker, May 1915, p. 36 (www.archive.org)

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King Street , North Side

Foundry Street (now Ontario Street).

Jacob and John Hoffman, brothers, who came from Pennsylvania, erected a furniture factory on the corner about 1840. It was a two story frame building extending along King St., had 25 to 30 employees and a 15 h.p. engine brought from Buffalo.

Eby's history gives John Hoffman as having come from Pennsylvania in 1825; Jacob, almost two years older, seems to have come before. They both worked at carpentry, etc., for a number of years before starting the factory in which enterprise they were assisted by Benjamin Eby. On the ridge of the factory roof there was a belfry with the only larger bell in Berlin. This bell served not only the factory but the village as well, pinging at 7 in the morning, at 12, at 1 and at 6 o'clock in the evening. It was used also as a fire bell and was tolled for funerals.

By some prank or spite the bell was stolen in 1850 before there was a night watchman at the factory, and disappeared for two or three years. Eventually it was found in a well at the comer of Duke and College Streets, put back in place on the Hoffman factory and later was taken to a belfry on the Simpson factory spoken of, where it was used until this factory was discontinued. It was then taken to the pavilion in Victoria Park and was melted down when the pavilion was destroyed by fire.

Behind the Hoffman factory there was a pond, about three feet deep, fed by a spring, the water being used for the factory boiler, etc. About 1860 a frame building, used by the firm for a warehouse, covered the site of the spring. Further back there was a saw mill, also a planing mill, the first of its kind in Berlin. A two story frame building extending along Foundry Street was later added to the factory and used as a turning shop. At the rear of this building was the factory boiler house.

Next to the factory on King Street there was a three story brick building. The ground floor was used as a store, called the Berlin Warehouse. Jacob Hoffman, who by this time was alone in the business, John having gone to Waterloo, announced himself as dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, china, glassware, crockery, and paint and oils and manufacturer of all kinds of furniture, also sash doors, etc., selling low for cash. An overhead passage way on a bridge connected the second stories of the factory and brick building. Over the store was the paint shop and in the rear a warehouse. Hoffman's store was later occupied by William Schmidt, son of Rev. Wm. Schmidt, an early minister of the Evangelical Church. Schmidt had a dry goods store only, known as the Golden Lion store because of a large gilt lion over the entrance. Isaac Hoffman, son of Jacob, carried on the factory and store for several years; later John S. Anthes was in possession while Hoffman went to Waterloo and continued the furniture business there with Adam Klippert and Martin Wegenast as partners. Jacob and John Hoffman erected a number of houses in Berlin.

Jacob Hoffman was very stout, weighing over 300 pounds. He was a member of the Evangelical Church. For a time he served on the village council. He resided on Foundry Street in the rear of the Canadian Block in a square, hip roof, two story, frame house, until it was destroyed by fire, when he moved to the west side of Foundry Street, south, where now is the Robe & Clothing Co. building. Here he had a one and one-half story frame house with a large two story addition at the rear where were lodged apprentices and other factory employees. There was a small portico over the front door and a porch extending along the northerly side of the house.

Next to the Hoffman warehouse there was a saloon and restaurant occupied by a Mr. Unger. He served, among other things, oysters which came in small wooden, 1-gal. kegs. Adjoining Hoffman's store there was the tailor shop of H. J. Nahrgang, later occupied by Henry Glebe, an early band master; next a store differently occupied at various times and next the shoe store of Wm. Niehaus. A three story brick building occupied by Wm. Young as a grocery. Mr. Young eventually went to the Canadian Block and the store was used for various purposes, among them auction sales in the evening. Here there was sold the first white crockery offered in Berlin. Later the building was occupied by the Berliner Journal.

A one and one-half story frame building with gable toward King St. and a veranda, occupied by Mr. Fuchs, a tailor and shoemaker, whose wife assisted her husband as expert in repairing clocks. The family lived in the building. About 1865 the frame building was moved to the rear and Fuchs' block erected on the street. The ground floor had three stores, the west one occupied by Mr. Fuchs, the middle by John Kayser, dry goods merchant, and the third one by Tindall Simpson and Sons, shoemakers and tailors. The first building on part of the Fuchs' block site was a rough frame structure used by one Susand, colored, who was the first barber in Berlin.

A two story brick building with gable facing King Street, occupied by Christian Garman, harness maker, who later moved to New Hamburg and started a tannery. This building was later occupied by Levi Gaukel, son of Frederick Gaukel, after his father's death. He had a small hotel known as The Red Lion. In 1860 Urban Prinzer succeeded Gaukel and continued the hotel for a short time.

A two and one-half story brick building with gable facing King St. was occupied by Levi Gaukel, as a butcher shop after he gave up the hotel next door. Jacob Gaukel was associated with Levi. Later George Debus occupied this shop.

A building with gable and porch facing King Street, later occupied by George DeBus as a barber shop.

On the corner of King and Queen Streets there was first a driving shed for the Gaukel hotel opposite, until the Bowman block was erected in 1860. This was a three story brick building lengthwise with King Street. Joseph Bowman the noted violinist occupied the third floor of this building. Half of the ground floor of the building was occupied by Henry B. Bowman with a partner Heins as general dry goods store. This was on the corner. The other half was a brick store occupied by Cole and Graf, druggists, and later by Wm. Bowman in the same business. On the site of the Bowman block is the handsome Bank building built by the Merchants Bank and now occupied by the Bank of Montreal.


REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder.

Part I. Settlement - Early Villagers and Buildings, Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1930

Elected Office:
Municipality: Berlin; 1st Div
Years on local council Councillor 1880, 1882-83, 1886, 1907 (defeated as Mayor in last year); D Reeve 1887, 1891, 1897; elected for 1st Division 1901 and 1902 when not on Town Council
Years on Waterloo County Council: 1887 1891 1901 1902

Residence:
The address is now 44 Weber St. W., Kitchener.

Residence:
Anthes John S : Manufacturer [Current Address 2023] 44 Weber St W [Historical Address] 34 Weber W

John married Lydia Catherine Herlan 27 Jun 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Lydia (daughter of Rev. Francis "Frank" Herlan and Caroline Demarez) was born 20 Dec 1849, Warsaw, Wyoming, New York, USA; died 1935, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Nationality: , USA
• Name: Lydia Catherine Anthes
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-30677
• Immigration: 1854, , Canada
• Residence: 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1871, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1901, 44 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1921, 44 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Residence:
Anthes John S : Manufacturer [Current Address 2023] 44 Weber St W [Historical Address] 34 Weber W

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:

• Eby ID Number: 00104-5799.12
• Occupation: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1861, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Other Methodist
• Occupation: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

QUEEN STREET SOUTH, EAST SIDE.

On the corner of King Street Rehscher's vaulted cellar already spoken of.

An open space.

A two-story rough-cast building with two-story veranda along the Queen Street front built by Martin Anthes (father of John S. Anthes) in 1835 when it was considered one of the best houses in the village. Henry Stroh purchased this house from Mr. Anthes about 1837. Jacob Stroh was born in this house. Behind it there was a garden of about an acre of land. There were 31 pine stumps on the property when Mr. Stroh took possession and these stumps had to be laboriously removed as stump- pulling machines, which came later, were not then available. The well on the lot was only nine feet deep. Henry Stroh carried on a shoe shop in his house until he entered into partnership with Carl Kranz, on King Street.

In 1857, after he had dissolved partnership with Kranz, Henry Stroh built a one and one-half story frame building next to his house and used it as a shoe store. Mr. Stroh continued in this shoe business until 1863 when he went into partnership with Mr. Reinhold Lang, the tanner. The Queen Street shoe shop was changed to a dwelling. Later Mr. Vanderhart, a tailor, had his shop in this building and after him Carl Englehart had it as photographer. Henry Stroh sold his house to George King. Later Charles Ahrens owned it and had it moved to the corner of Shanley and Braun Streets about 1880.

A one and one-half story frame building erected about 1837 by Jacob Kraemer, later on Frederick Street, as spoken of. Later an addition was added to the front and the building used as the local post office, with William Davidson in charge. Later George Seip purchased the building and used it as a saloon, with a bowling alley in the rear, the first bowling alley in Berlin. William Jaffray lived in the house for a time and later William Knell, son-in-law of Mr. Seip.

A one and one-half story frame building, originally a cooper shop, later the dwelling of Mr. Seip, after he sold the other building. In 1860 he built a brewery, known as Seip's brewery. Under the whole building he had a vaulted cellar built of field stone. Power for the brewery was supplied by a horse-power contained in an attached shed, shelter for the horses. Seip had a high reputation for good beer. He at first made his own malt, but later purchased it. After George Seip's death his son Louis continued the business until about 1880. The building was finally torn down to make room for the present auditorium.

The cooper shop, a small one story building, with brick chimney such as coopers used to heat staves for their barrel making, operated by Henry Brickner who later had his shop at the corner of Young and King Streets. Later Adam Stein had the Queen Street cooper shop. The Berlin coopers were experts in the making of what was called tight-wear,that is water-tight barrels, in large tuns which they made for the brewers.

A very early building, occupied by John Peters, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory, about 1860. The building had an outside stairway at the back. Peters was a bird lover and expert in trapping native song birds, mocking birds, cat birds, finches, etc., which he hung under his veranda roof in public display.

On the corner of Church Street a frame house occupied by Mr. Knechtel, a weaver, about 1842-1850. Knechtel moved to a farm in Mannheim where later he was injured in the spine by a falling tree to such an extent that he was bedfast for fourteen or fifteen years. He lived to about 1871. Conrad Doering occupied the Queen Street house for a time. He also was a weaver and made coverlets, etc. The house was torn down to make room for the present one of brick built by Dr. Clemens and later occupied by the late Dr. Walters.

Church Street.

On the south side St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

A one and one-half story unpainted frame building with gable towards the street, the dwelling, about 1860, of John Fleischauer, a laborer, a native of Hessen, Germany.

A one and one-half story house occupied by E. Kern, cabinet maker, about 1860 and later by John Ansted.

A vacant lot.

George Street.

Joseph Schneider originally owned all the land between George Street and Mill Street, mostly woods at that time, and extending to Benton and Eby Streets.


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

Martin married Catharine Schmidt 25 Dec 1835. Catharine (daughter of John Schmidt and Catharine Riehl) was born 25 Mar 1814, , France; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Catharine Anthes
• Eby ID Number: 00104-5799.9
• Residence: 1871, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00055-3800.2
• Map: 1861, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 020, Waterloo County, Ontario
• Historic Building: 1866, 51 Ahrens St. West, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Hay Twp., Huron Co., Ontario, Canada; minister
• Occupation: 1881, East Zorra Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; minister

Notes:

Rev. Frank Herlan was at one time the Minister of Zion Evangelical United Brethren (later Zion United) Church, Weber Street, West, Kitchener.

Historic Building:
Built in 1866 for Rev. Franz (Francis) Herlan, it is a frame house and in 1978 was listed in very good condition.

Francis — Caroline Demarez. Caroline was born 13 Nov 1813, Friedrichstal, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died 12 Mar 1889, West Seneca, Erie, New York, United States; was buried , Blossom Cemetery, West Seneca, Erie, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Caroline Herlan
• Eby ID Number: 00055-3800.3