Charles Richard Geddes

Cal 1833 - 1895  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Charles Richard Geddes
  Born	CALC 30 Jul 1833	, England   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Merchant
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	U. Brethren
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Nurseyman
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	United Brethern
  Occupation	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Gardener
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Salvation Army
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-131768
  Died	30 Nov 1895	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 5]
  Buried	First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Person ID	I131768	Generations
  Last Modified	1 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Foundry [Ontario Street] to Queen Street- Almost the whole of this block was a spongy swamp, with willow trees along the edge. Cattle could scarcely go into it as they would sink. Up to 1850 there was no building up to Gaukel's Hotel at the corner of Queen Street. Along the street front there was an elevated sidewalk erected on cedar posts with stringers. The sidewalk was about six feet wide and high enough to enable boys to explore underneath as, of course, they used to do. About 1858, Osborne Spiers & Co., erected a three-storey brick building, later known as Spiers' Block, on the Foundry Street corner. The building contained two stores fronting on King Street, one occupied by Wm. Spiers as a grocery and wine and spirit merchant, and the other a dry goods store first occupied by Mr. Stanton and later by W. H. G. Knowles who had been clerk at Stanton's. The members of the first Berlin band, organized in 1855, had rooms on the third floor of the building and met there for practice, Next to Spiers Block there was for many years a vacant lot and next to that a small, one-storey frame building with gable toward King Street, ten feet back from the street line, used by Wm. Brown, the first stone cutter and tombstone maker in Berlin. He was also painter, paper-hanger, glazer, and dealer in marble and stone. Next to this, about 1856, Lelinen Brothers had a frame building one storey and a half high, occupied as tinsmith shop and store for tinware, the shop being at the rear. In 1860 this building was replaced by the Snyder Block, a narrow, three-story brick building. Frederick Snyder, who had been apprentice at Lehnen Bros., had this building. He was very industrious and in the habit of working until one and two o'clock in the morning when he came to own the business. Next was a frame building, a story and a half, partly occupied by Charles Geddes, seedsman, and partly by the office of W. H. Bowlby, barrister and attorney-at-law, later County Crown Attorney. 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 ______________ King Street, Kitchener Albert to Cameron Street.-The first building was a two story dwelling back from the street line, occupied by John Oetzel in 1850-60 as a tavern. Later the building was dismantled, the walls remaining standing. It was rebuilt as a one storey building. A building, the dwelling of John Eichenhauer. A brick building occupied by Charles Geddes, seedsman, with garden in front and a high wall at the back. , A frame building occupied by William Hertz. 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

  [S158] Div 1 Page 13. [S229] Div. 2, Pg. 32. [S1592] Section 3 Page 48. [S116] . Name:Charles R Geddes Gender:Male Age:62 4m, Birth Date:abt 1833 Birth Place:England Death Date:30 Nov 1895 Death Place:Berlin, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Religion:Salvation Army Cause of Death:Consumption of The Lungs & Bowels Occ: gardener [S3231] https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214723258/charles-richard-geddes.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - CALC 30 Jul 1833 - , England Occupation - Merchant - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - U. Brethren - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Nurseyman - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - United Brethern - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Gardener - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Salvation Army - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 30 Nov 1895 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth