Dr. George Rudolph "Rudolph" Mylius

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• Name: Rudolph Mylius
• Residence: 46 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-31863
• Immigration: 1860, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr. - Doctor
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Naturalization: 1872
• Historic Building: 1876, 37 Margaret Ave, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doctor
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.

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Dr. R. Mylius passes away Close of a useful busy life

Berlin has lost another of its older generations in the decease of Rudolph George Mylius, M.D. who passed into the Great Beyond at ten o'clock on Saturday evening, Oct. 4th, in his 66th year.

The end came quietly and peacefully the bedside being surrounded by the members of the family. His death was due to diabetes with which disease he had battled for some years. Ten weeks ago he took to his bed, and had been compelled to remain there ever since. During the long days of illness he was patient and bore the affliction with fortitude.

The funeral will be held on Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the family residence on Frederick Street to Mount Hope Cemetery. A memorial sermon will be preached at St Peter's Lutheran Church next Sunday at 10.30 a.m.

The late Dr. Mylius was born in Lauterbach, Ober-Hessen, Germany, on April 30th, 1837 where he was brought up and received his earlier education. He took up Chemistry as a special study and later on Medicine at University at Glessen. When he was 23 years of age he came to Berlin, in 1860 here he had resided ever since. He was one of the town's oldest and most successful practitioners having built up a very large practice. He was skilled beyond his day and hundreds of our towns people and district have to thank him for routing disease and assisting Nature to assert itself in restored health.

His was a genial disposition; a hospitable nature and a kind, big heart. He was exceptionally well read and was able to converse and give advice and information on almost any subject. He was an enthusiastic student of plant lore and was possessed of a great knowledge of botany, in which subject he was an authority. His conservatory always contained the rarest specimens. He was a valued member of the Alpha-Mycological Society of Canada, in which his knowledge was always at the service of his fellow members.

He was possessed of great inventive intuition. He knew the sugar producing qualities of the sugar beet and in 1866 he experimented in the manufacture of beet sugar, but owing to there being no machinery to prosecute the work the venture was not successful from a practical commercial standpoint.

He was deeply interested in the advancement of Berlin, being more especially indentified (sic) with educational institutions. For many years he was a member of the School Board and at the time of his death occupied a chair on the Free Library Board, as a representative of the Town Council. He was also a member of the Canadian Order of Foresters.

On Oct. 9th 1861 he was married to Miss Dorothea Klotz of Preston, who with two daughters and three grandchildren survive. The daughters are Mrs D. .Forsyth and Miss Mylius. His only son, Otto, predeceased him in 1901, leaving a widow and one child.

In his demise Berlin mourns the loss of a useful and respected citizen and an honorable man.

News Record Monday October 6th 1902

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Mylieus, R„ physician. Is a native of Germany, and has resided here since 1860.

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

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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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Frederick Street, West Side.

On the site in front of the present Fire Hall, on the street line next to the St. Nicholas hotel, an unpainted frame shed, with an enclosed part at one end where the fireman's hook and ladder truck was kept. In case of fire this truck was generally rushed out by hand, a long rope attached to the pole and a double line of men. After the fire was out they would hire a team to draw the truck back.

An open space.

A small dark yellow frame school building erected in 1834 and later used to store the fire engine.

A wood shed later used as a two-cell lock-up for the village, 1857-60, and probably a little later.

Behind the school house stood an undenominational church erected in 1842. The church had a steeple with a railing around it. About ten years later the building was used for a school room, called the Advanced School. In 1856 it was used for the village council and known as the Town Hall. In 1874 it was used as an engine house, and so continued until the building known as the Market House was built in 1869. After 1874 it was again used as an engine house until the present Fire Hall was built on its site.

A two-story brick building with gable toward Frederick Street and a second story porch along the front erected by Justus Werner about 1850, or 51, still standing. Werner had a waggon shop on the first floor and lived with his family on the second. Later a Mr. Foreman bought the building and had a shoe shop on the first floor for a number of years.

A brick house later occupied by Dr. Mylius when he moved there from his King Street house.

A frame building the house of Henry Knell, the jeweller, later occupied by Mathias Riener, a tailor, who came from Vienna, Austria, and moved here from Breslau.
one-story red frame building a little back of the street line with gable toward Frederick Street, erected about 1838, occupied by Peter Rebscher Senior, the brewer's father.

A one and one-half story frame building, not painted, lengthwise with Frederick Street with ground floor a few steps above the sidewalk, occupied by Mrs. Krug, a widow, and next to it her barn.

A vacant space to Weber Street. The Court House was built in 1852, the registry office later, and still later the present Judge's chambers. Vacant space on Ahrens Street.

On the northerly corner of Ahrens a 1 ½ story brick dwelling parallel with Frederick Street built and occupied by Philip Reichert, a carpenter. His father was a pedler, vending tinware and china, rags and produce. A 1 1/2 story frame building with a small veranda over the front door, the dwelling of Otto Fleischauer, still standing and now on the corner of Otto Street.

Intersection of Lancaster, Frederick and Ellen Sts., long known as the five points. Next, on Frederick Street a double, white frame weather board dwelling, half occupied by Henry Otterbein, the other half by Balzar Schmalz.

Next, the farm house of John Eby with his dwelling directly opposite the House of Refuge. The county bought most of Eby's farm for this latter institution.



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:
Built in 1878 Rudolph Mylius was the original owner. It is a two story brick house that in 1978 was listed in very good condition.

George married Dorothea Fredericka Klotz 9 Oct 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Dorothea (daughter of Otto Klotz and Elizabeth "Elise" Wilhelm) was born 28 Dec 1839, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 2 Aug 1925, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Augusta Clothilde Mylius was born 2 Jul 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 4 Apr 1912, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
2. Dora F. Mylius was born 1865, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.
3. Otto R. Mylius was born 1865, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1901.
4. Dora Mylius was born 24 Feb 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189140

Johann — Louise Hornung. Louise (daughter of Hornug) died 1891, , Germany. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Louise Mylius
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189141

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189139