Andreas "Andrew" Nicholaus

1816 - 1901  (84 years)

• Name	Andreas "Andrew" Nicholaus
  Born	22 Apr 1816	, Germany   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	St. Nicholas Hotel
  Name	Andrew Nicholas
  Name	Andrew Nicholaus
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Tavern Keeper [catagory: hotel keeper, inn keeper, tavern keeper]
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Roman Catholic
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Tavernkeeper [catagory: hotel keeper, inn keeper, tavern keeper]
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	RC
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-138816
  Died	2 Mar 1901	Gladstone, Delta, Michigan, United States
  Person ID	I138816	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Mary Stoner,   b. 1821, , Switzerland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Andrew Nicholaus,   b. 1846, , Kentucky ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F34561	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

  [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 33. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 1 Page 7.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 22 Apr 1816 - , Germany Business - St. Nicholas Hotel - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Tavern Keeper [catagory: hotel keeper, inn keeper, tavern keeper] - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Roman Catholic - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Tavernkeeper [catagory: hotel keeper, inn keeper, tavern keeper] - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - RC - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 2 Mar 1901 - Gladstone, Delta, Michigan, United States  = Link to Google Earth