Edith Lillian Sauder^[1]

1884 - 1955  (70 years)

• Name	Edith Lillian Sauder
  Born	9 Jul 1884	, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Female
  Interesting	music
  Name	Edith Lillian Dunham
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Methodist
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Zion Church
  Eby ID Number	00115-7270.2
  Died	1955  [7]
  Buried	Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Lincoln Co., Ontario   [5]
  Person ID	I11047	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Solomon Sauder,   b. 29 Feb 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 13 Jan 1943  (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Mary Ann Klippert,   b. 17 Apr 1862, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 15 Jun 1901  (Age 39 years)
  Married	20 Nov 1883	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Family ID	F3158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Martin Franklin "Frank" Dunham,   b. 9 Oct 1882, Harriston, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. Feb 1949  (Age 66 years)
  Married	15 Nov 1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F62334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Edith Lillian Sander a daughter of the merchant Soloman Sander, lived in Berlin, Ontario. In 1906 she traveled to Chicago, USA to study music and painting. She returned to Berlin in 1908 and became a soprano soloist in a local church choir. She met Martin Frank Dunham in 1904 in Berlin, Ontario and courted him until 1911 when they were married on November 15. They returned to Camrose, Alberta where Martin had been living and together they had two children, Hazel Mirriam, born November 14, 1912 and Mary Frances, born March 1914. The family moved back to Ontario at the outbreak of World War I. Edith Lillian Dunham died in 1955, pre-deceased by her husband Frank who died in 1948. Martin Frank Dunham was born on October 9, 1882 in Harriston, Ontario to Martin Squier Dunham and Magdalena Eby. Martin Squier Dunham's family were United Empire Loyalists who came to Canada from the United States in 1783 to settle first in Parr Town, New Brunswick, and later Ontario, first in Newmarket, then Harriston. Magdalena Eby's family was of Pennsylvania Dutch extraction who had settled in Berlin, Ontario, now Kitchener. Frank Dunham studied at Normal School then taught in Berlin during the years 1902-1904. He spent the summer of 1904 in the south of England engaged in Stereotype photography and returned to Ontario in the fall to attended the University of Toronto. He spent the summer of 1905 in England again engaged in Stereoscope photography, this time in northern England and the Lake District, and then returned to the University of Toronto in the fall of 1905. Dunham graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and worked for a year at the "Toronto Daily Star" newspaper. In the spring of 1908 he moved to Edmonton, Alberta to serve as the commercial editor for the "Edmonton Bulletin" and in 1909 he became the news editor for the new Edmonton daily "The Capital". He was also responsible for a weekly farm paper, "The Alberta Homestead", and a weekly city paper, "The Saturday News". By 1910 Dunham was working as editor of the new "Camrose Canadian" and "Camrose Bulletin" for George P. Smith, and in the spring of 1911 he worked with Smith on Smith's campaign in the election called by the Liberals for the fall. Very soon after the election Dunham traveled to Ontario and married Edith Lillian Sander, whom he met in Berlin, Ontario and courted for seven years, and they returned to live in Camrose, Alberta. Together they had two children, Hazel Mirriam and Mary Frances. At the outbreak of World War I the Dunham family moved back to Berlin, Ontario and Frank Dunham obtained a position with the "Stratford Beacon Herald" Dunham died in St. Catherines, Ontario in 1948, survived by his wife Edith, who died in 1955. "Sander, Edith Lillian - Alberta On Record". Albertaonrecord.Ca, 2022, https://albertaonrecord.ca/sander-edith-lillian. Accessed 29 Oct 2022.

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 492. [S137] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1901, Berlin (Town/Ville) A-5 Page 5. [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 34 Page 7. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Sec. 5 Page 50. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203880746. [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. Name: Frank Dunham Sex: Male Age: 29 Birth Year (Estimated): 1882 Occ: journalist - Camrose, Alberta Father's Name: Martin Dunham Mother's Name: Magdalene Eby Spouse's Name: Edith L Sauder Spouse's Sex: Female Spouse's Age: 27 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1884 Res: Berlin Spouse's Father's Name: Solomon Sauder Spouse's Mother's Name: Mary Ann Klippert Marriage Date: 15 Nov 1911 Marriage Place: Berlin, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada [S3231] Find A Grave, https://albertaonrecord.ca/edith-lillian-sander-fonds.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 9 Jul 1884 - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Zion Church - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 15 Nov 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Victoria Lawn Cemetery, St. Catharines, Lincoln Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth