Myrtle Christena Pabst

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• Name: Myrtle Christena Kohli
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84094
• Residence: 1912, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Myrtle married John Frederick Kohli 22 Oct 1912, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. John (son of Johann "John" Kohli and Anna Catherine "Catherine" Linder) was born 22 Feb 1886, Saint Marys, Auglaize, Ohio, United States; died 6 Apr 1947; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25567
• Elected Office: 1900, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor of Hespeler
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter, Woolen Mill
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Notes:

As a young man, August G. Pabst went to work for John Sachs and upon his demise succeeded him and remained till he too passed on in 1921. His place was taken by his brother-in-law, George Sachs who died two weeks after taking over.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

August — Mary Sachs. Mary (daughter of Johann "John" Sachs and Catherine Roos) was born 5 Apr 1866, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Oct 1929, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Pabst
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84089
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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• Building: 20-24 Queen St. W., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Och's Block - Second Empire Style
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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-82681
• Immigration: 1852
• Residence: 1855, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Naturalization: 1858
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tavern Keeper
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, , USA; Mason and Hotel Keeper
• Occupation: 1881, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Keeper
• Occupation: 1881, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Hotel Keeper
• Occupation: 1884, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; mason
• Elected Office: 1888, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor of Hespeler
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Retired: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Insurance Agent

Notes:

Being then in a position to do his own sawing and mill work, Mr. Kribs was able to handle much larger jobs and in due course came to be known as one of the leading general contractors in this area. On some of his large jobs he sublet some of the work, Carpentry often to Archie Brydon, Masonry to Christian Pabst....Christian Pabst came here about 1860 to keep Hotel. He was then a man of about 28 years of age and mentally very active. He soon embarked on a bit of contracting and by 1868 became one of the best known Mason contractors in this area, employing a lot of men and executing large contracts. Some at least of the work he did for Jacob Hespeler seems to have been on a cost plus basis as is evidenced by his being credited with the time of a long list of men employed by him on the job. In addition to Masonry contracts, Mr. Pabst took on other work, the building and gravelling of roads etc., no doubt to keep his equipment and men busy.

He owned quarries which were under the supervision of his wife's brother, Christian Kirchener, an expert quarryman. Among the stone structures built by Mr. Pabst in the Village may be cited the United, the Evangelical and the old Presbyterian (now St. Mary's) Churches. The Bank of Montreal Building, Zryd's Hardware Store, both Johnston's and Saults' Blacksmith Shops (the latter then only one story) and several of the stone buildings at the Lower Mill.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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"The Robert Burns Hotel". Operated by Frederick Weltz prior to 1859. From the death of Weltz that year by Christian Pabst till 1864. Then till 1870 by John Ohlman and by Joseph Bolduc in 1871.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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The Germania House". Built in 1863-64 by Christian Pabst and oper-ated by him until 1886. Next by Eugene Sullivan till 1888; by John Andrich, 1889, and by Frank Jaglowitz until 1891 when its license was discontinued.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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HESPELER MAN DEAD.

Hespeler, Ont., Feb. 5. One of Hespeler's oldest citizens, in the person of Christian Pabst, died suddenly during the night of heart failure. Mr. Pabst was one of the most widely known men in this district and was a Mason of over 35 years' standing. He was a director of the Economical Insurance Company, of Berlin, Ont. Mr. Pabst was 74 years old and leaves a wife and grown up family.

Feb 5, 1909 - Hamilton Times

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THE LATE CHR. PABST

A Hespeler correspondent writes as follows of the life and death of the late Chr. Pabst, who passed away very suddenly on the 5th inst.

Mr. Pabst was a native of Germany having been born on the 27th day of October, 1832, in Thiemar, Saxony Menigen, Germany. In 1851, when a young man of nineteen years of age, he came to Canada, when he became a resident of Hespeler. He was the popular landlord of the Germania House and was not slow in displaying the flag of his native land at the time of the Franco-Prussian war.

On Feb. 25th, 1855, he was married to Miss Katharine Kirschner. They were blessed with fifteen children the following of whom survive,- Three sons, George of Springfield, Vt; John of Hamilton, and August, of Hespeler, and the following daughters Mrs. Chas. Allendorf, Brooklyn, N.Y. Mrs. Augusta Maud, Acushnet, Mas. Mrs. Edward Pannabaker, Walkerville Ont.; Mrs. Emma Allendorf and Mrs. J. C. Eaton, Toronto, Mrs. Michael Roos, Berlin; Mrs, A. H. Wittmaak, and Mrs. Emil Moeller of Hespeler.

The deceased was twice married his first wife dying on Nov. 17,1882. In his second marriage on March 26, 1884, Mrs. Theresa Dopler became his wife. One daughter, Miss Maud Pabst blessed their home. Both wife and daughter survive. Mrs. Pabst, before her marriage to Mr. Pabst, was the possessor of the children by her first husband, who also survive. The deceased is also survived by forty-one grandchildren and five great grand- children.

The late Mr. Pabst was a public spirited citizen most He was the holder of many offices in the gift of the town and his scholarly bearing fitted him well for the proper performance of these duties. He was for twenty-seven years a director of the Economical Fire Insurance Company of Berlin, and has never missed an annual meeting of the Company. He held office for many years as alderman of the town, and in his younger
days was a valued member of the brass band as player of the bass instrument. Last, but not least, he was an ardent supporter and influential officer in the Lutheran church. was one of the prime movers in the installation of the chime of bells in the tower of that church, which peal out in sonorous tones on the quiet Sabbath morning air their sweet call to one and all to attend worship. He had held the office of superintendent of the Lutheran Church Sunday School acceptably for many years and always enjoyed the confidence and respect of all his fellow townsmen.

Feb 8, 1909-Berlin News Record

Building:
Christian Pabst is the likely builder of the limestone section of this commercial building.

Christian married Christine Elizabetha Kirschner 27 Feb 1855, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Christine (daughter of Kirchner) was born 23 Nov 1832, Ehrstaedt, Baden, Germany; died 14 Nov 1882, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Christine Elizabetha Pabst
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25541
• Residence: 1855, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Christine Pabst, nee Kirschner, wife of Christian Pabst, died n Hespeler at age of 49 years, 11 months and 22 days. The deceased was a native of Ehrstaedt, Grand Duchy of Baden; lived a peaceful married life with her husband for 27 years; bore 15 children, among them 2 pairs of twins. She was a vigorous housewife, a loyal life's companion, a good mother, a genial neighbour, and an active member of the Lutheran congregation and of the ladies' group of same. She had suffered repeated illnesses since last spring. The funeral procession, which was an extraordinarily numerous one, took place on Sunday afternoon. The funeral service was led by Pastor Wurster, in which he preached on the text chosen by the deceased herself, Isaiah 61: 10. she is survived by her husband, 12 children and 6 grandchildren.


Berliner Journal Newspaper 23 Nov 1883

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Died, In Hespeler, on Friday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, Christine, Beloved wife of Christian Pabst, Aged 49 Years, 11 Months and 22 Days. Funeral, On Sunday afternoon, at 1 o'clock, from the residence of her Husband, to the Hespeler Cemetery. Hespeler, Nov. 18th, 1882.


City of Cambridge Archives Funeral Card Collection

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• Name: John Sachs
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-145550
• Residence: 1862, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Carpenter
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Misfortune: 1887; killed in industrial accident
• Occupation: 1887, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; carpenter

Notes:

I n 1860 Messrs. Gideon Ochs, George Guenther and John Sachs entered into partnership in the Carpenter business under style: Gideon Ochs & Co., which partnership subsisted until 1864 when Mr. Guenther withdrew to go with Fred. Guggisburg. For a time the remaining two partners continued. Both partnerships owned property in Hespeler.

From 1867 until 1874 Gideon Ochs appears personally as a carpenter, from 1870 on, as resident. Because he lived in the Township and owned no property in Hespeler Mr. John Sachs does not appear on our assessment rolls subsequent to 1864 when evidently the Partnership ceased. Mr. John Sachs apparently worked with Mr. Ochs or with his brother, Henry Sachs (or both) until about 1874 when he went as Boss Carpenter, Millwright and General Maintenance man for J. Schofield & Co. where he remained until his death in 1887.

When he went to work at the Lower Mill, Mr. Sachs took along as Millwright, Gideon Ochs, who left around 1876 and moved to the farm west of the Guelph Road just above the Block Line. John Wehner and Fred. Fiedler worked for John Sachs at the Lower Mill and during the time there of Mr. John Sachs, many of the mill houses were built.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT HESPELER.

Fall of a Scaffold at the Star Mills.

Fifteen Men Hurt - One Dead and Others Fatally Injured.

(From our Correspondent.)
This (Wednesday) forenoon about 9:30 o'clock, without a moment's warning the cross beams of timber,on the second story of the rear part of Forbes & Co.'s St Woollen Mills, broke, precipitating about twenty men to the ground, & distance of some twenty-five feet. All the men were more or less injured. The following is a list of the names of those who, at the time of sending away this news, are in critical condition: - Mr. John Sachs, boss mechanic, Mr. Conwarf, sr., Edward Johnston, Fred. Sohonfeldt, John Wehner and David Guenther. Mr. Sachs it is feared will not recover from the injuries received.

Drs. Mcintyre and Lockhart are in close attendance on the patients who are most seriously injured.

It is needless to add all was done that was possible to do to relieve the injured men, In a few minutes hundreds of willing hands were engaged removing the debris from above the men, who fell with the timbers and lay buried beneath the same, and as one by one were extricated from their pinned position received kind attention in the way of washing the blood from their wounds and placed in some adjoining house or taken to their respective homes. None were allowed to be removed until examined by the doctors.

It is the worst catastrophe that has occurred here in many years.

LATER, 11:10 A.M.- Since sending previous word Mr. John Sachs has died, others are not expected to get over their injuries.

Hespeler Aug 24, 1887

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Hespeler Correspondence.

BURIAL OF MR. SACHS.On Friday afternoon last the funeral of Mr. John Sachs, aged fifty-two years, took place from his late residence to the Hespeler cemetery. The funeral was conducted by the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the member of said Society turning out in large numbers, and presenting a fine appearance, dressed neatly in dark colored clothes, wearing white gloves and the regular A. O. U. W. badge. Many of the brethren were from distant places; among the number we noticed some from Galt, Guelph, Morriston, Weston and Preston. In addition to the society all the employees of the Star Mills, male and and female, marched, also many of the villagers as well as a large number from a distance. There were sixty-four single carriages and twenty three double carriages in the line of procession. Among the number was the carriage of the firm, for whom the deceased had worked for so many years, the occupants thereof being Mr. Robert Forbes and son George. The procession was twenty minutes passing a given point. Rev. Mr. Haigh officiated at the house previous to conveying the remains of the deceased there from, and the Rev. pastor of the Lutheran church conducted the services at the grave. The funeral sermon was preached in the Lutheran church, of which deceased was a staunch adherent, by the pastor, on Sunday evening last, a large congregation attending.

DOING WELL

All the men injured through the accident at the Star Woollen Mills, on Wednesday the 24th, are doing full as well as can be expected.

Guelph Mercury 30 Aug 1887

Johann married Catherine Roos 5 Aug 1862, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Catherine (daughter of Jacob Roos and Johanna Carolina "Caroline" Boehmer) was born 1838, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Aug 1899, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Catherine Sachs
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-145551
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1862, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

DEATH OF MRS JOHN SACHS

Mrs John Sachs of Hespeler died this morning at her home, after a lingering illness of about a year, with a cancerous affection. She was 54 years of age; a member of the Lutheran church there and highly respected for her Christian graces Her death will be sincerely mourned by a large circle of friends. A family of twelve children survive her: Albert, John and Charles, of Berlin; Edward of Chatham, Henry George and William of Herpeler; Mrs Aug. Pabst, Hespeler, and four daughters at home. The funeral will be held on Monday at 2pm to the Herpeler cemetery.

Berlin News Record-Aug 26, 1899

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25577

Adam — Christine Madalene Stock. Christine was born 29 Feb 1804, , Germany; died 25 Jan 1886, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Christiana Stock
• Name: Christine Madalene Pabst
• Name: Magdalena Stock
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-25565
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Died, At the residence of W. Moeller, Hespeler, on Monday night, Jan. 25th, 1886, Christiana Pabst, Mother of C. Pabst, Aged 81 Years, 10 Months and 25 Days. Funeral, Will take place from her late residence, to the Hespeler Cemetery, Thursday at half-past one o'clock. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend. Hespeler, Jan. 26, 1886^.1a

1aWaterloo Historical Society Death Notices Collection - photocopies

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-35951

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28032
• Occupation: 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; labourer
• Occupation: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Laborer
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Ernst — Anna Martha Rinke. Anna was born 1813, , Germany; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Anna Martha Sachs
• Name: Martha Rinke
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-28033
• Residence: 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-134271
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1876, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; cooper
• Occupation: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cooper
• Residence: 1881, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Notes:

Jacob Roos, an Alsatian, worked at his trade of Cooper in a shop John Erb operated in connection with his grist mill at Preston from the early thirties until 1845 when he came to New Hope and opened a cooper shop at the extreme west end of the Hamlet, on the south side of the front road to Galt, in a building which many will remember as the "Log Cabin".

Here Mr. Roos made both types of barrels, the flour barrels for some of the mills around, and tight barrels for some of the numerous distilleries then to be found hereabouts.

Richard Gowling worked for him making loose barrels from 1866 till 1887 and his son, Nelson, worked with him in 1866 and 1867 and another son, Richard Gowling Jr., in 1867.

Mr. Roos taught the coopering to Conrad Sachs, whose brother, John, was married to a daughter of Mr. Roos. My first record of Conrad is July 19th, 1854, the last, 1862, when he appears to have gone to Buffalo where some of his descendents still reside. As my record comes from Hespeler's books it looks as if Conrad first learned the trade with Mr. Roos and then went to work in Hespeler's Cooperage.

Mr. Roos Sr. taught both trades to his son, Jacob Roos, who appears to have taken over the shop about 1871 and he continued to operate it until he died in 1907.

He made chiefly flour barrels which he delivered with a one-horse waggon fitted with a rack which held 65 barrels. Old timers will remember seeing these loads of barrels passing along Queen Street on the way to Kribs' Mill.

Another son, Edward Roos, learned Coopering with his father and apparently upon completion of his apprenticeship which must have included the tight barrel making he went in 1871 (when young Jake took over the shop) to work for Mr. Hespeler where he remained till 1876. Mr. Ed. Sachs, born 1868, nephew of Edward Roos, told me his Uncle Ed. was in charge of the shop for Hespeler.

Mr. Hespeler's Cooper Shop was in the stone building, which with additions made subsequently, is now The Hydro-Electric Power Station.

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

Jacob married Johanna Carolina "Caroline" Boehmer 1836. Johanna (daughter of Johann Valentine Boehmer and Katharina Barbara Schauss) was born 29 Apr 1819, Obermiesau, Pfalz, Bayern, Germany; died 9 Dec 1875, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Caroline Boehmer
• Name: Johanna Carolina "Caroline" Roos
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-134272
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1871, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran