Mary Pequegnat

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• Name: Mary Burrows
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-297453
• Residence: 1921, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1974, Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

Mary — L. F. Burrows. L. was born Abt 1915; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Eugene Pequegnat
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40544
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1894, 241 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Office Assistant, Insurance Office
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1921, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Insurance, Life
• Residence: 1921, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

Arthur married Loretta May "Lottie" Miller 2 Jul 1912, Sarnia Township, Lambton Co., Ontario. Loretta was born 20 Feb 1888, Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1966; was buried , Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Loretta May "Lottie" Pequegnat
• Name: Lottee Millar
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-297450
• Residence: 1921, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Business: Arthur Pequegnat Clock Co., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Interesting: business, life story,
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40536P
• Immigration: 1874, , Canada
• Immigration: 1874, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1874, , Canada
• Naturalization: 1878, , Canada
• Naturalization: 1879
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Watchmaker
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; baptist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Jeweller
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Elected Office: 1894, Kitchener Daily Record Newspaper, Kitchener, , Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener
• Residence: 1894, 241 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Business: 1897; The Berlin & Racycle Manufacturing Co.
• Committee Membership: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Public School Board
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clock Manufacturer, Clock Works
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Clocks
• Residence: 1921, 241 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; politician, watchmaker

Notes:

DEATH OF A. U. PEQUEGNAT - Following an illness of two weeks, one of Kitchener's best known and most public-spirited citizens passed away on Thursday last, august 11th, in the person of Arthur U. Pequegnat, for over fifty years a resident of the city. During that period he was prominently identified with the business interests of the city as a jeweler and as a bicycle and clock manufacturer while he was also active in civic circles. He had been in failing health for a year and a half. He was in his 76th year. Born in Chaux-de-fonds, Switzerland, Sept. 22nd, 1851, he came to Canada in 1874, being accompanied to this country by his wife whom he married in 1872, as well as his parents, brothers and sisters, and they settled in Kitchener. Surviving him are his three sons, Edmond, Marcel and Eugene, all of Kitchener, and two daughters, Mrs. B.C. Schulte, of Kitchener, and Miss Ida Pequegnat, at home. His wife passed away in 1919, while two daughters, Mrs. F.H. Boehmer, Miss Leda Pequegnat and two infant children predeceased him. There also survive five brothers, George and Philemon of Kitchener, Albert of Brantford, Joseph of Guelph, and Leon G. of New Hamburg, and five sisters, Mrs. Emma Heimbach of Colville, Wash., Mrs. Ralph Chamberlain of Calgary, Mrs. Lena Fleischer of Hamilton, and Mrs. Schneider and Mrs. B.J. Stumpf of Kitchener. The funeral, which was largely attended, was held on Saturday afternoon to the Benton Street Baptist Church for service thence to Mont Hope Cemetery.

New Hamburg Independent Aug 19 1927 pg 5.



Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company

Arthur Pequegnat came from Switzerland to Berlin, Ontario ca. 1874 with his brothers, sisters and parents. In the 1880s he was importing watches for sale locally in western Ontario. Around 1897 Arthur built a factory in Berlin to manufacture ... bicycles! When that market started to decline, he began in 1904 to convert part of his factory over to making clock movements. Initially his clock cases were produced in local furniture factories, typically with quarter-cut oak but occasionally with mahogany or walnut. Later he set up his own small factory for case production in nearby Breslau.

The town name was changed from Berlin to Kitchener in 1916. After Arthur died in 1927, relatives continued to operate the company until 1941. At that time the shortage of brass, a key component of the clock movements and other parts, forced the business to shut down.

A whole book has been devoted to the history of this top-of-the-list, one-hundred-percent Canadian manufacturer of clocks. Six original company catalogues were found during research for the book, but no company production records were ever discovered. Approximately sixty-five catalogued models of mantel clock are known, as well as sixteen models of wall clock (with variations) and seven models of grandfather (hall) clock. The Pequegnat company also sold several "clock kits" for various sizes of clocks over the years - everything one needed except for the case.

Elected Office:
Years Served: 1894-95

Arthur married Hortense Marchand 1872, , Switzerland. Hortense (daughter of Marchand and Julie Voirol) was born 20 Aug 1852, , Switzerland; died 16 Oct 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Hortense Pequegnat
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40537
• Immigration: 1874, , Canada
• Immigration: 1874, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1894, 241 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-32655
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Watch Maker
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Jeweller
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; watchmaker

Notes:

Ulysse Pequegnat, an accomplished watch and clockmaker of Loveresse, Switzerland, procured clock parts from Swiss manufactures and assembled them in his home with the assistance of some of his eight sons. There were also six daughters. At the suggestion of his third eldest son, Pequegnat immigrated to Canada, arriving in Berlin in 1874. It was inevitable that the family should continue in the watch and clock business, and Arthur, the eldest son, started the first clock manufacturing plant in Canada, A The Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company. Pequegnat started a store of his own and the sons opened clock, watch and jewelry stores in Guelph, Stratford, Brantford, Waterloo, New Hamburg, Tavistock and Neustadt. The second and third generations of Pequegnats branched out from clock and watch making to various other fields of endeavor - the ministry, insurance, banking, industry, medicine and dentistry

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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Edmund von Erlach died in Berlin of nervous fever at age of 23 years, 8 months and 1 day. He came here several years ago from Switzerland, attended high school for a time, in order to learn English, and when he was unable to find an occupation that corresponded to his knowledge, he did ordinary labour. Last fall and winter, he cared for people sick with fever, until he was taken ill with the sickness himself and was laid low with it in the home of Mr. Pequegnat, where he was cared for like a member of the family.

Berliner Journal 6 Apr 1882

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Pequegnat Bros., Watchmakers and Jewellers, Berlin and Waterloo - The inhabitants of Berlin are well supplied not only with the necessaries but also the luxuries and adornments of life, and there can be no excuse for going out of town to make purchases, when the merchants here keep such excellent stocks, and sell the lowest possible prices. Among those engaged in the watchmaking and jewellery business must be mentioned Messrs. Pequegnat Bros., whose establishment is located on King St. East. This business has been established for over 11 years and since its inception has met with very favourable success, the development being very gratifying. The premises occupied are 11x50 feet, with a very nice stock of watches, clocks, chains, rings, brooches, scarf pins, and such other articles in this line as are usually to be found in a first-class jewellery establishment. The firm also make a speciality of watch repairing, of which they do a great deal. They give employment to three competent and skilled assistants, and their trade extends throughout the town and country. They also do a large jobbing trade, and give their customers the benefit of the lowest market prices, thus ensuring a continuance of their custom. Messrs. Pequegnat Bros. started with almost nothing, but by perseverance, thrift, enterprise and ability, have built up an excellent business; not only this, but they have started seven other parties in different places, who are now doing well. They have also another store of their own located in Waterloo, which is a branch of the Berlin house. Messrs. Pequegnat Bros. are natives of Switzerland, the land that produced William Tell. They are wide-awake business men, and have the esteem of the community in which they reside. They have been in this country over 13 years.

Industries of Canada Historical and Commercial Sketches Hamilton and Environs 1886

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During the seventies a man and wife arrived in Berlin from Switzerland. Fourteen children walked with them from the station to the Town Hall to see the Mayor. The man carried over his shoulder a rifle, prepared to defend himself against wild beasts. He had less than $100 in his pocket that securely tied to his clothes but he had courage and a family to support. A watchmaker in his native land, he opened a small shop in the town. One by one his sons passed through the Canadian testing school, and shortly not only Berlin but also Guelph, Stratford and Brantford came to know the Pequegnats. One of the sons started Ontrio's first clock factory, and while conducting it served for 20 years on Berlin's and Kitchener's Board of Education.

Had present regulations, with regard to the admission of immigrants, been in force in the seventies the Pequgnats would have been shipped back to their native land branded as "undesirables." Such an act would. in addition to the loss of services named, have blocked the way of one Pequegnat to the post of actuary for one of this country's noted life insurance companies.

Waterloo Chronicle 13 Dec 1928, p. 19

Ulysses married Francoise Verpillot 1851, , Switzerland. Francoise was born 1 Aug 1829, , Switzerland; died 20 Sep 1917, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Church Membership: Benton Street Baptist Church, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Name: Frances Uerpillot
• Name: Francissca Uerpillot
• Name: Francoise Pequegnat
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-32666
• Immigration: 1874, , Switzerland
• Immigration: 1874, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
• Residence: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist

Notes:

Death of an Aged Resident; Mrs. Francoise Pequegnat Passes Away in Her 89^th Year. Came here in 1874.

One of Kitchener's oldest and most highly respected residents passed away Thursday evening in the death of Mrs. Francoise Pequegnat, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Oscar Schneider, at 18 Samuel street. The deceased was in her 89^th year and was born in Switzerland on August 1, 1829. Mrs. Pequegnat with her husband Ulysses Pequegnat, who predeceased her in 1894, came to this country in 1874, locating immediately in this city, where she had since resided. In 1851 she was married to Ulysses Pequegnat and was the mother of 16 children, two of whom died in infancy in Switzerland and one in this city. She is survived by 13 children, 50 grandchildren. Her surviving children are Arthur, Paul, George, and Philemon Pequegnat, of Kitchener, James of Stratford, Leon of New Hamburg, Joseph of Guelph, and Albert of Brantford, Emma, Mrs. George Heimbach, of Colville, Washington; Lena, Mrs. William Fleischer, of Hamilton; Rachel, Mrs. Oscar Schneider of Kitchener; Lea, Mrs. R. W. Chamberlain of Calgary, and Dina, Mrs. B. F. Stumpf, of Kitchener. Mrs. Pequegnat during her long residence in this city built up many friendships. She was a devoted member of the Benton Street Baptist Church and her activities in the early days of the church's history in this city did much to help the growth of the church. She was beloved by all who knew her for her genial disposition and sterling Christian character. Her bereaved sons and daughters will have the sympathy of a wide circle of friends. The funeral was held from her late home on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock and at 2: 30 from the Benton Street Baptist Church. Interment will be made at Mount Hope Cemetery.

Waterloo Chronicle, September 2, 1917

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40547

— Julie Voirol. Julie was born 26 May 1826, , Switzerland; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Julie Marchand
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40546
• Immigration: 1879, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist