Immanuel Gottlob Christian "Christian" Enslin

1800 - 1856  (56 years)

• Name	Immanuel Gottlob Christian "Christian" Enslin
  Born	14 Feb 1800	Kirchheim Unter Teck, Donau, Wuerttemberg, Germany   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	public service, politics, story, business
  Rsrch. Note	https://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38021&query=berlin ENSLIN, CHRISTIAN (Emanuel Christian Gottlieb), bookbinder, newspaperman, notary, and office holder; b. 4 Feb. 1800 in Württemberg (Federal Republic of Germany); m. Julia '97, and they had one child; d. 29 March 1856 in Berlin (Kitchener), Upper Canada. Christian Enslin came from Württemberg to North America about 1830. One of the early German immigrants to the Waterloo area, he arrived in Berlin some time before 1833 with all his possessions in a carpet-bag. He first supported himself as a daily labourer, but soon began to practise his trade as a bookbinder, travelling from house to house until he could establish a small bindery. There he bound books for customers such as Bishop Benjamin Eby and Heinrich Wilhelm Peterson. Some time later Enslin expanded his business to include a bookstore, where he sold not only books but also patent medicines, eyeglasses, school supplies, and other specialized articles. In December 1837 Enslin began an active role in journalism, working for almost a year as the associate editor of Peterson's Canada Museum, und Allgemeine Zeitung. When Peterson decided to stop publishing it, Enslin and Heinrich Eby, a son of Bishop Eby and a former apprentice at the Canada Museum, purchased the newspaper plant from him in December 1840. A month later Peterson's two former employees founded Der Deutsche Canadier und Neuigkeitsbote. Following the demise in September 1841 of Der Morgenstern, a short-lived German weekly published in Waterloo, Enslin and Eby acquired a subscription list and perhaps also some equipment from its publisher Benjamin Burkholder. The sole German-language newspaper published in British North America from 1841 to 1848, the Deutsche Canadier was more successful than its first rival, the Morgenstern, and it continued in print until January 1865. Enslin, editor of the Deutsche Canadier from its first issue until he was succeeded by Johann Jakob Ernst in January 1850, proudly boasted that his reform journal was "a staunch advocate of Responsible and Constitutional Government." The paper did not publish much local news, but it did support instruction in German in county schools. Enslin concentrated instead on reports of political unrest in Europe and reprinted literary extracts from various continental journals. Despite its popularity the Deutsche Canadier was never free from the threat of bankruptcy. With tongue in cheek Enslin warned his readers early in 1844 that, "inasmuch as the end of the world is to come on the 22nd of March, according to Miller's prophecy, we respectfully request all our readers who are in arrears with their subscriptions to call and settle at once, otherwise it will go hard with them on Judgment Day." Enslin, a convert to the religious views of Emanuel Swedenborg, was instrumental in the formation of a Swedenborgian congregation in Berlin, later known as the Church of the New Jerusalem or the New Church. For some time before the cooperative Free Church, which was used by a number of denominations, was opened on 25 Dec. 1842, Enslin's group met for services in his orchard in the summer and in his bindery in the winter. A circulating library of religious books, most of which were Swedenborgian, operated out of his bookstore under the auspices of the New Church Society of Berlin. Enslin was also one of the organizers of the second Mennonite Sunday school in the county, established in April 1841. During his career Enslin held a number of civic offices. As a bilingual notary he assisted many German farmers in their land transactions and, according to an obituary in the Berlin Chronicle and Provincial Reformers' Gazette, "he wrote more public documents than any other man in Canada." He was appointed commissioner to the Court of Queen's Bench, responsible for taking affidavits for use in local court sessions, and from 1853 to 1855 he served as the first clerk of the Surrogate Court in Waterloo County. He became the second treasurer of the county a few months before his death from consumption on 29 March 1856. AO, RG 1, A-I-6: 23046'9648; RG 22, ser.155, will of Christian Enslin. PAC, RG 31, A1, 1851, Waterloo Township, pt.4: 180'9681. New Jerusalem Magazine (Boston), 28 (1856): 623'9624. Berlin Chronicle and Provincial Reformers' Gazette (Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]), 2 April 1856. Canada Museum, und Allgemeine Zeitung (Berlin). Der Deutsche Canadier und Neuigkeitsbote (Berlin), 1 Jan. 1841'96December 1849. Der Morgenstern (Waterloo, [Ont.]), 8 June 1839'9616 Sept. 1841. M. B. Block, The New Church in the new world: a study of Swedenborgianism in America (New York, 1932; repr. 1968). A. E. Byerly, The beginning of things in Wellington and Waterloo counties . . . (Guelph, Ont., 1935). H. K. Kalbfleisch, The history of the pioneer German language press of Ontario, Canada, 1835'961918 (London, Ont., and Münster, German Federal Republic, 1968). Gottlieb Leibbrant, Little paradise: the saga of the German Canadians of Waterloo County, Ontario, 1800'961975 (Kitchener, 1980). W. V. Uttley, A history of Kitchener, Ontario (Kitchener, 1937; repr. [Waterloo, 1975]). The Waterloo Hist. Soc. (Waterloo) has published a number of articles relating to Christian Enslin's life in its Annual report, including: Salome Bauman, "First Mennonite Church, 1813-1963," 1963: 19-26; Michael Bird, "The Swedenborgian community in Waterloo County: two religious approaches to culture," 1975: 69-74; W. H. Breithaupt, "[Address at the dedication of the Waterloo County Pioneers' Memorial Tower, 28 Aug. 1926]," 1926: 220-25, "Some German settlers of Waterloo County," 1913: 11-15, and "Waterloo County newspapers," 1921: 152-60; A. E. Byerly, "Henry William Peterson," 1931: 250-62; D. Johnson, "The Church of the Good Shepherd," 1943: 39-43; D. N. Panabaker, "President's report," 1932: 298-308; and Jacob Stroh, "Reminiscences of Berlin (now Kitchener)," 1930: 175-207; 1931: 274-84. A brief account of Enslin's life was published a few years after his death in "Minutes of the meeting of the Association of the New Church in Canada," New Jerusalem Magazine, 36 (1864): 210-11
  Website	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
  Name	Christian Enslin  [4]
  Name	Emanuel Christian Gottlieb Enslin
  Occupation	1840	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	newspaper editor
  Occupation	1851	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	bookseller, stationer and notary public
  Occupation	1852	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	book binder
  Occupation	1856	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Notary Public
  Occupation	1856	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Treasurer of the County of Waterloo
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-26686
  Died	29 Mar 1856	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7, 8]
  Person ID	I26686	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Julie Fischer,   b. 5 Jun 1812, , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	7 Oct 1851	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  Children	1. Johanna Augusta Enslin,   b. 7 Nov 1852, of, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F6981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Christian Enslin ANNALS OF THE NEW CHURCH COMPILED BY C. TH. ODHNER, PHILADELPHIA, ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH 1898, pg 481

  
  

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  Berlin Chronicle 2 April 1856 At Berlin, on Saturday night, the 29th inst., Christian Enslin, Esq., Treasurer of the County of Waterloo, aged 56 years. The deceased was a native of Wuertemberg, Germany, and came to Canada about the year 1834,- a carpet-bag then constituting all his worldly goods. He first engaged as a daily laborer, but shortly followed his trade as book-binder, in many instances travelling from house to house in the prosecution of his business. In 1840 the German Canadian was established by the late Henry Eby, and Mr. Enslin became its Editor, and conducted that paper successfully for the succeeding ten years. Mr Enslin was admirably adapted for his pursuit and his writings were well received by the public,being distinguished by a kind and conciliatory spirit, yet as firm, convincing and patriotic as amiable and just. When he retired from his charge of the Canadian, he carried with him the respect and affection of all who had become acquainted with his feelings and principles as reflected weekly in the columns of his newspaper. He subsequently carried on his trade and added to it the Bookselling business, at the same engaging assiduously in the labor of conveyancing, during which time it is believed that he wrote more public documents than any other man in Canada. By earnest attention to his business, unceasing industry, sterling honesty and wholesome frugality, he gradually won his way up to comparative independence, and when called upon to close his eyes upon all material things, he was entering more and more energetically than ever into useful public life. As a man, Mr. Enslin will be long remembered by his many sorrowing friends for his amiability, his many virtues, and his great usefullness to the community in which he lived. As a public servant, Mr. Enslin had few equals. His unswerving honesty and untiring energy with his kindly disposition rendered him a great favorite, and by his premature decease a blank has been left in the public life of Waterloo, which may be filled again but never with more credit to the occupant or profit to the public. For a few weeks before his decease, Mr. Enslin had been laboring under the sufferings which usually accompany his disease-consumption. He was patient and kind to the last, and left the world in the firm hope of a blessed immortality. His remains were followed to the Grave on Tuesday by a large concourse of friends, among whom were his brother and officers of the county and members of the County Council. The Revd. Mr. Whitaker took advantage of the event to preach an able and affecting discourse to the Congregation of which Mr. Enslin was a member. Berlin Chronicle 2 Apr 1856 _______________________________ Church of the Good Shepherd The congregation began meeting in various locations as early as 1833, with Christian Enslin as leader. A small frame church was built on Frederick Street in 1842, and was called The Free Church; the congregations of four denominations held services in it. The seating space in the Free Church became insufficient for the growing Swedenborgian congregation with the result that land on the northwest corner of Church and Benton Streets was purchased in 1847 from Joseph E. Schneider. A frame church with a seating capacity of 150 was built in the same year; the church was called the New Church (Uttley 1937: 64). Several decades later a larger church was again needed. Land was purchased on the northeast corner of King and Water Streets where a new stone church was built and completed in 1870. The old church was sold to the congregation of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Serious differences resulted in a formal split in the Berlin Swedenborgian congregation on September 18, 1891. One group, the predecessor of this congregation, whose pastor was Rev. F.W. Tuerk (June 1857-July 3, 1901), continued to worship in the stone church. The other group, eventually to be known as the Carmel Church of the New Jerusalem, built their church in 1892 at 820 King Street West; their pastor was Rev. F.E. Waelchli. In 1935 the congregation purchased land on the corner of Queen Street North and Margaret Avenue as the site for a new church. The Church of the Good Shepherd is a Convention Church of the New Jerusalem. Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose ____________________________ ENSLIN, CHRISTIAN (Emanuel Christian Gottlieb), bookbinder, newspaperman, notary, and office holder; b. 4 Feb. 1800 in Württemberg (Federal Republic of Germany); m. Julia -, and they had one child; d. 29 March 1856 in Berlin (Kitchener), Upper Canada. Christian Enslin came from Württemberg to North America about 1830. One of the early German immigrants to the Waterloo area, he arrived in Berlin some time before 1833 with all his possessions in a carpet-bag. He first supported himself as a daily labourer, but soon began to practise his trade as a bookbinder, travelling from house to house until he could establish a small bindery. There he bound books for customers such as Bishop Benjamin Eby and Heinrich Wilhelm Peterson. Some time later Enslin expanded his business to include a bookstore, where he sold not only books but also patent medicines, eyeglasses, school supplies, and other specialized articles. In December 1837 Enslin began an active role in journalism, working for almost a year as the associate editor of Peterson's Canada Museum, und Allgemeine Zeitung. When Peterson decided to stop publishing it, Enslin and Heinrich Eby, a son of Bishop Eby and a former apprentice at the Canada Museum, purchased the newspaper plant from him in December 1840. A month later Peterson's two former employees founded Der Deutsche Canadier und Neuigkeitsbote. Following the demise in September 1841 of Der Morgenstern, a short-lived German weekly published in Waterloo, Enslin and Eby acquired a subscription list and perhaps also some equipment from its publisher Benjamin Burkholder. The sole German-language newspaper published in British North America from 1841 to 1848, the Deutsche Canadier was more successful than its first rival, the Morgenstern, and it continued in print until January 1865. Enslin, editor of the Deutsche Canadier from its first issue until he was succeeded by Johann Jakob Ernst in January 1850, proudly boasted that his reform journal was "a staunch advocate of Responsible and Constitutional Government." The paper did not publish much local news, but it did support instruction in German in county schools. Enslin concentrated instead on reports of political unrest in Europe and reprinted literary extracts from various continental journals. Despite its popularity the Deutsche Canadier was never free from the threat of bankruptcy. With tongue in cheek Enslin warned his readers early in 1844 that, "inasmuch as the end of the world is to come on the 22nd of March, according to Miller's prophecy, we respectfully request all our readers who are in arrears with their subscriptions to call and settle at once, otherwise it will go hard with them on Judgment Day." Enslin, a convert to the religious views of Emanuel Swedenborg, was instrumental in the formation of a Swedenborgian congregation in Berlin, later known as the Church of the New Jerusalem or the New Church. For some time before the cooperative Free Church, which was used by a number of denominations, was opened on 25 Dec. 1842, Enslin's group met for services in his orchard in the summer and in his bindery in the winter. A circulating library of religious books, most of which were Swedenborgian, operated out of his bookstore under the auspices of the New Church Society of Berlin. Enslin was also one of the organizers of the second Mennonite Sunday school in the county, established in April 1841. During his career Enslin held a number of civic offices. As a bilingual notary he assisted many German farmers in their land transactions and, according to an obituary in the Berlin Chronicle and Provincial Reformers' Gazette, "he wrote more public documents than any other man in Canada." He was appointed commissioner to the Court of Queen's Bench, responsible for taking affidavits for use in local court sessions, and from 1853 to 1855 he served as the first clerk of the Surrogate Court in Waterloo County. He became the second treasurer of the county a few months before his death from consumption on 29 March 1856. Tom Eadie AO, RG 1, A-I-6: 23046-48; RG 22, ser.155, will of Christian Enslin. PAC, RG 31, A1, 1851, Waterloo Township, pt.4: 180-81. New Jerusalem Magazine (Boston), 28 (1856): 623-24. Berlin Chronicle and Provincial Reformers' Gazette (Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]), 2 April 1856. Canada Museum, und Allgemeine Zeitung (Berlin). Der Deutsche Canadier und Neuigkeitsbote (Berlin), 1 Jan. 1841-December 1849. Der Morgenstern (Waterloo, [Ont.]), 8 June 1839-16 Sept. 1841. M. B. Block, The New Church in the new world: a study of Swedenborgianism in America (New York, 1932; repr. 1968). A. E. Byerly, The beginning of things in Wellington and Waterloo counties . . . (Guelph, Ont., 1935). H. K. Kalbfleisch, The history of the pioneer German language press of Ontario, Canada, 1835-1918 (London, Ont., and Münster, German Federal Republic, 1968). Gottlieb Leibbrant, Little paradise: the saga of the German Canadians of Waterloo County, Ontario, 1800-1975 (Kitchener, 1980). W. V. Uttley, A history of Kitchener, Ontario (Kitchener, 1937; repr. [Waterloo, 1975]). The Waterloo Hist. Soc. (Waterloo) has published a number of articles relating to Christian Enslin's life in its Annual report, including: Salome Bauman, "First Mennonite Church, 1813-1963," 1963: 19-26; Michael Bird, "The Swedenborgian community in Waterloo County: two religious approaches to culture," 1975: 69-74; W. H. Breithaupt, "[Address at the dedication of the Waterloo County Pioneers' Memorial Tower, 28 Aug. 1926]," 1926: 220-25, "Some German settlers of Waterloo County," 1913: 11-15, and "Waterloo County newspapers," 1921: 152-60; A. E. Byerly, "Henry William Peterson," 1931: 250-62; D. Johnson, "The Church of the Good Shepherd," 1943: 39-43; D. N. Panabaker, "President's report," 1932: 298-308; and Jacob Stroh, "Reminiscences of Berlin (now Kitchener)," 1930: 175-207; 1931: 274-84. A brief account of Enslin's life was published a few years after his death in "Minutes of the meeting of the Association of the New Church in Canada," New Jerusalem Magazine, 36 (1864): 210-11. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online www.biographi.ca ___________________________________ A-1-106 Christian Enslin, Probate of the will of Christian Enslin, late of the town of Berlin, on petition of Julia Enslin, widow of the said Christian Enslin, the Executrix named in said will. (Charles Hendry and Henry Rothaermel, the Executors, having renounced.) I Christian Enslin, of the Town of Berlin, Notary Public…First I will and devise unto my beloved wife Julia, and my hereinafter named Executors in trust, all my real and personal property…I authorize to pay all my just debts and collect all my outstanding dues, it is my will that Lot number twelve, on the north side of King Street, in Berlin, now occupied by the Widow Harbin, be appropriated to and for the use and benefit of the society called the New Jerusalem Church, that is if my beloved wife and my Executors deem it proper, but should the residue of my estate not be sufficient comfortably to support my wife and child or children, should my wife be blessed with my hereafter, then the proceeds of said property to be appropriated to and for the support of my said wife and child or children. And I hereby nominate, constitute and appoint my beloved wife Julia Enslin, Executrix, and my friends Charles Hendry of Conestogo, in the Township of Woolwich, Merchant, and Henry Rothaemel of Berlin, Carpenter, Executors of this my last will and testament…And I also nominate and appoint my said Executors Charles Henry and Henry Rothaermel, Guardians for my child (or children in the event of my said wife being blessed with any hereafter.) Witnessed by A.J. Peterson and Charles Hendry Will Dated 10 March 1856 Granted and Registered 8th Septembher 1856 Died 29 March 1856 Inventory £825/1/9. Surrogate Court Records Copybook Register A 1853-1871 transcript to 1863. Frances Hoffman transcriber ______________________ King Street, Kitchener Benton to Eby Street.-Successive occupation was as follows: From Benton Street easterward, before 1855, a one-story brick building with gable facing King Street was erected at the corner and used by Jacob Benner as blacksmith shop. Later Benner moved to West Montrose and the next occupant was Valentine Gildner and after him his son John Gildner . This blacksmith shop continued until comparatively recent years. A frame building painted white, with veranda in front, was Gildner s residence.. Vacant lot. A tinsmith shop owned by Mr. Lehnen . This had a nice front with two good-sized glass windows on either side of the door. A dwelling house built by Henry Rothaermel 1848-9. He was a carpenter and later was market clerk and tax collector. A lane. A one and one-half story building, with gable facing King Street and a verandah extending over the sidewalk, occupied by a Mr. Coleman 1855-1860. Adjoining it was a warehouse. The store passed to Coleman's son and then to John Kegel. Later John George Schmidt, shoemaker, occupied the building. A lane. A double, frame building about 50 feet along King St.; the east half used as a dwelling had a veranda; the west half was occupied by Charles Koehn, shoemaker. Open space. Dwelling of Gabriel Bowman, carpenter, who built the house. A one and one-half story building occupied by Balzar Allendorf, a coverlet weaver, about 1840. Allendorf later moved to New Hamburg. There was a veranda at the front of the house and under it a well. Cattle ran at large in the streets at this time and one Sunday afternoon a steer got on the veranda floor, which was partly rotted, broke through, fell into the well and had to be pulled out by means of a windlass. The building was torn down later. frame building ocupied by Henry Sippel, former employee of Allendorf, as a weaver's shop. In 1855 there was a frame building one and one-half story high along King Street divided into two parts, one part a dwelling and the other part a hat shop, owned by John Kidder, who made felt hats and old-fashioned bonnets. The shop was a few steps above the sidewalk level. A dwelling. A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with King street occupied by a widow, Mrs. Caroline Lehnen. A driveway. A two story brick building with gable toward King Street, occupied by J. J. Lehnen, son of the widow Lehnen, as a copper and tinsmith shop and a store. Lehnen made his own tinware. Later Jacob Doebler occupied this building as a bakery. A one and one-half story frame building with gable toward King Street occupied by George Yantz, a cabinet maker. He had a tavern in this same building for a time, and lived there. In the early years a garden. A small shop with sloping roof used by Christian Enslin as a book store and book-bindery, the first book-bindery in Berlin Enslm arrived in Berlin about 1830. Jacob Stroh remembers going with his father to the store to buy school supplies. Enslin later was editor, for Henry Eby, the publisher, of the Deutsche Canadier which began publication in 1840. Enslin's House, one-half story, frame, standing lengthwise with King Street and having a veranda over the door, was on the site of Dr. Hetts present office and house. At the rear there was an orchard. About 60 feet back of King Street there was a house built by Henry Eby. Shubel Randall, brother of George Randall, lived in it later. In 1860 the building was destroyed by fire and a servant girl Dina Hertz, perished in the flames. The walls remaining standing, the house was re-built, and is still in use. A brick building, abutting on King Street with gable facing the street, was Henry Eby's printing office. The main floor was she or seven feet above the sidewalk level. In 1860 this building was changed to a church and was the first Anglican Church in Berlin. A frame building, one end of which was used by Henry Bowman as a general store; he lived in the other end. This was known as the Bowman building. Later William Stein had a tailor shop in it and after him William Thoms used it as a shoe repair shop. 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 ________________________ Frederick Street, East Side. On the corner Millar's store and at its rear a warehouse belonging to it, a two story building with gable toward Frederick Street. A vacant lot, site of the present Market Building, surrounded by a six foot hoard fence, customary in those days to keep out cattle, which had the freedom of the streets. A one and one-half story frame building with porch in front occupied by Mr. Yeck who died of being bled by a layman when he was Dr. Scott's patient. A man Geiger married the widow and lived in the building. A small frame building occupied by Geo. Schmidt. A small frame building occupied by Wm. Stein. A two story frame building with a small portico painted white over the front door, the house occupied by Thomas Pierce, then Principal of the Central School and later by Herman Rathman. On the corner, now occupied by Dr. Honsberger's residence, a two story brick building for some time the residence of Sheriff Davidson. Before that, 1840-1860, Jacob Kramer occupied the building as a tavern. Kramer was known as Strumpf Weber (stocking weaver) from a former occupation in a shop on Oueen Street S. Weber Street. On the corner a large brick building erected by Christian Enslin about 1855 with veranda along the entire Frederick Street front and on it a narrow gallery at the second floor. The building is still in use for stores with the veranda removed. At one time it was occupied as a tavern. A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with Frederick St. On the easterly corner of what is now Spetz St., a two story brick building, set back somewhat from the street, the house of Peter Rebscher. It had a large sign, "Peter Rebscher Brewer"; in the rear was the brewery, a two story frame building, and a large barn. A later brewer was Jacob Summer and after him, in 1862, Joseph Spetz had the house and brewery until he died. A vacant lot belonging to John Roth and later to Simon Roy who used it as a nursery for shrubs and rare trees. The old Central School and grounds, the school now remodelled and greatly enlarged to the present handsome Suddaby School. The Central School building had a belfry on top with at first a small bell and later a larger one. Jacob Stroh rang this bell as long as he attended the Central School, later W. H. Breithaupt had this charge for a time. A frame building occupied by Yost Kimmel, a carpenter. REMINISCENCES OF BERLIN (NOW KITCHENER) By JACOB STROH Contributed by Joseph M. Snyder. _____________________ Canada. Berlin, Ont. - Organic beginning of the New Church in "Berlin, Preston P. O., Canada West," at this time a settlement of Pennsylvania Germans, mostly Mennonites. Mr. Christian Enslin, a book-seller and editor of the Deutscher- Kanadier, had received the Doctrines of the New Church about the year 1832, by accidentally procuring an unsalable copy of Dr. Tafel's German translation of the Apocalypse Revealed. He soon afterwards procured the rest of the Writings in German or English, and began to propagate the Doctrines among his neighbors, but had, until 1841, gained but a single convert, Mr. Adam Ruby, while two or three other persons were reading with some interest. Mr. Enslin, on January 9, 1842, sent a first communication to The Newchurchman, of Philadelphia, and on May I applied for admission as a member of the Central Convention. Hearing, in the same year, of a New Church preacher, Mr. Harbin, at Chinquacousy, near Toronto, he wrote to the latter, who immediately visited Berlin, baptizing the two receivers, and delivering some lectures in English which were attended mostly by Germans. The little circle, slightly increased in number, now undertook the building of a small chapel, which was consecrated on December 25, 1842. -Mess. vol. 47: 102; L. 1893: 143; N. I: 524; C. C. R. 1842: 41; 1843: 22; I. 1862: 424; M. 36: 210. ANNALS OF THE NEW CHURCH COMPILED BY C. TH. ODHNER, PHILADELPHIA, ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH 1898, pg 481

  
  

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  [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 2. Christian ENSLIN Bookbinder Germany 52 SW b. 14-Feb July ENSLIN Germany 40 Lutheran b. 5-Jun [S14] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Chronicle (1856-1860), April 2, 1856. [S1901] Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898. Name: Immanuel Gottlob Christian Enslin Sex: Male Christening Date: 15 Feb 1800 Christening Place: Kirchheim unter Teck, Kirchheim, Donaukreis, Württemberg, Deutschland Christening Place: Kirchheim Unter Teck, Donau, Württemberg Birth Date: 14 Feb 1800 Birthplace: Kirchheim Unter Teck, Donau, Wrtt. Father's Name: Immanuel Gottlob Enslin Father's Sex: Male Mother's Name: Johanna Huschwadlin Mother's Sex: Female Event Type: Christening [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), Vol 1 pg 7. List of Baptisms by Thomas Wilks 1855. [S2070] Directory - Ontario Directory for 1851. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 2. [S1737] Probate - Wills of Waterloo Register A 1853-1871, Will of Christian Enslin - 1856 - A-1-106. [S14] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Chronicle (1856-1860), April 2, 1856. "he wrote more public documents than any other man in Canada." [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, by Rev. Jacob Hüttner, Minister of the Lutheran Church in the village of Preston, Twp. of Waterloo #210. Christian Enslin, To Julie Fischer, Both Of Berlin. 7 Oct. 1851. Rev. Huttner.

  
  

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  Occupation - newspaper editor - 1840 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - bookseller, stationer and notary public - 1851 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 7 Oct 1851 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - book binder - 1852 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Notary Public - 1856 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Treasurer of the County of Waterloo - 1856 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 29 Mar 1856 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth