George Klein^[1]

1826 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	George Klein
  Born	1826	, Wuerttemberg, Germany   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1861	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Butcher
  Residence	1861	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Butcher
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lutheran
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Butcher
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Lutheran
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-130931
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I130931	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Sophia Schott,   b. 1830, , Wuerttemberg, Germany ,   d. 6 Nov 1887, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 57 years)
  Children	1. Herman Klein,   b. 1856, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1908, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 52 years)   2. Emilia Klein,   b. 1856, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Albert Klein,   b. 1858, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Alvenia Klein,   b. 1859, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Bertha Klein,   b. 1862, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Otto Klein,   b. 1865, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. George Klein,   b. 1868, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F32281	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 10 Nov 1887. 06 Nov 1887 Sophia Klein, nee Schott, wife of George Klein, died in Berlin, at age of 56 years. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div 1 Page 51. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 2, Pg. 28. [S1473] Census - ON, Waterloo, Preston - 1861, Div. 2 Page 15.

  
  

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  Born - 1826 - , Wuerttemberg, Germany Occupation - Butcher - 1861 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Butcher - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Butcher - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth