William Decker

1851 - 1926  (74 years)

• Name	William Decker
  Born	29 May 1851	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Honoured	Decker, , Manitoba
  	Decker, Manitoba named in his honour
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-27134
  Died	1926
  Person ID	I27134	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Isaac Smith Decker,   b. 1808, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Dec 1874, Stratford, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Sarah Eliza Hunt,   b. 1810, , Ireland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F7078	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  William Decker Source: Story of Manitoba, 1913.

  
  

• Notes

  Memorable Manitobans: William H. Decker (1851-1926) Farmer, municipal official. Born at Waterloo, Ontario on 29 May 1851, son of Isaac S. Decker (?-1876) and Sarah Hunt (?-1885), he attended schools of Lambton County until the age of 18 years, after which time he worked on the family farm. In 1873, he began working as a carpenter on the Grand Trunk Railway, coming to Manitoba in 1881 and taking up a farm in the western part of the province. In addition to growing crops, he raised horses, cattle, and swine. When the Canadian Northern Railway constructed a line through the region, it purchased forty acres of Decker's land to establish a station and townsite that they named Decker in his honour. On 7 October 1879, he married Martha Alice Frankland (1856-1945), daughter of Robert Frankland and Elizabeth Gofton, at Peterborough, Ontario. They had seven children: Herbert J. Decker (?-?), Frederick Walter Decker (1883-?, husband of Annie G. McConnell), Naomi Sarah Decker (1885-?, wife of Frederick L. Cook), Mabel Decker (1886-?, wife of Frederick Wyatt), Robert Scenica Decker (1889-?), Albert Lemual Decker (1891-?, husband of Myrtle I. Sunley), and Lily May Decker (1896-?). He served as Reeve for the Rural Municipality of Hamiota (1915-1916) and Secretary-Treasurer of the Ethel School District. He was a member of the IOOF. He died in 1926. Sources: Birth, marriage and death registrations, Manitoba Vital Statistics. The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913. This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough. Page revised: 3 January 2016 Goldsborough, G. (2019). Memorable Manitobans: William H. Decker (1851-1926). Mhs.mb.ca. Retrieved 9 June 2019, from https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/decker_wh.shtml

  
  

• Sources

  [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 1 Pg 23.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 29 May 1851 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Honoured - Decker, Manitoba named in his honour - - Decker, , Manitoba  = Link to Google Earth