Levi Gaukel^{[1, 2]}

1824 - Bef 1871  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Levi Gaukel
  Born	Between 22 Sep 1823 and 1824	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Levi Gaukel & Co., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Residence	1847	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  Occupation	1849	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	butcher
  Occupation	1851	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	butcher
  Occupation	1852	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	butcher
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-34476
  Died	Bef 1871  [8, 9]
  Person ID	I34476	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Friedrich "Frederick" Gaukel,   b. 9 Jun 1784, , Wuerttemberg, Germany ,   d. 8 Nov 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Polly Kaufman,   b. Abt 1790, Of, Pennsylvania ,   d. Abt 1827, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 37 years)
  Family ID	F11663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Reichert,   b. 22 Aug 1823, , Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	10 Sep 1849	Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6, 10]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Gaukel,   b. 13 Mar 1850, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 13 Jul 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 1 years)   2. Anna Mary "Mary" Gaukel,   b. 11 Oct 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 15 Nov 1903, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 52 years)   3. Alfarata Wilhelmina Gaukel,   b. 2 Mar 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 16 Mar 1915  (Age 58 years)   4. Conrad Levi Gaukel,   b. 28 Nov 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 May 1905, Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, USA  (Age 46 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F8632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Anna Barbara "Barbara" Schafer,   b. 10 Feb 1829, of, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 10 Apr 1849, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)
  Married	27 Apr 1847	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5, 11]
  Children	1. Elisabeth Gaukel,   b. 1831,   d. 13 Jul 1851, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)   2. Frederick William Gaukel,   b. 25 Jan 1848, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 31 Jul 1917, Bay City, Bay Co., Michigan, USA  (Age 69 years)   3. Emanuel Levy Theodore Gaukel,   b. 1 Apr 1849, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Apr 1852, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 3 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F9151	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Levi's death and burial is unknown. It appears that Levi's marriage may have failed. There appears in the 1860 census in Buffalo a Levi Gaukel the right age and birthplace who is a horse ferrier lliving with a Jacob Slasiler and saloon keeper. I possibly may be him and that he died there later. __________________ King Street , North Side Foundry Street (now Ontario Street). Jacob and John Hoffman, brothers, who came from Pennsylvania, erected a furniture factory on the corner about 1840. It was a two story frame building extending along King St., had 25 to 30 employees and a 15 h.p. engine brought from Buffalo. Eby's history gives John Hoffman as having come from Pennsylvania in 1825; Jacob, almost two years older, seems to have come before. They both worked at carpentry, etc., for a number of years before starting the factory in which enterprise they were assisted by Benjamin Eby. On the ridge of the factory roof there was a belfry with the only larger bell in Berlin. This bell served not only the factory but the village as well, pinging at 7 in the morning, at 12, at 1 and at 6 o'clock in the evening. It was used also as a fire bell and was tolled for funerals. By some prank or spite the bell was stolen in 1850 before there was a night watchman at the factory, and disappeared for two or three years. Eventually it was found in a well at the comer of Duke and College Streets, put back in place on the Hoffman factory and later was taken to a belfry on the Simpson factory spoken of, where it was used until this factory was discontinued. It was then taken to the pavilion in Victoria Park and was melted down when the pavilion was destroyed by fire. Behind the Hoffman factory there was a pond, about three feet deep, fed by a spring, the water being used for the factory boiler, etc. About 1860 a frame building, used by the firm for a warehouse, covered the site of the spring. Further back there was a saw mill, also a planing mill, the first of its kind in Berlin. A two story frame building extending along Foundry Street was later added to the factory and used as a turning shop. At the rear of this building was the factory boiler house. Next to the factory on King Street there was a three story brick building. The ground floor was used as a store, called the Berlin Warehouse. Jacob Hoffman, who by this time was alone in the business, John having gone to Waterloo, announced himself as dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, china, glassware, crockery, and paint and oils and manufacturer of all kinds of furniture, also sash doors, etc., selling low for cash. An overhead passage way on a bridge connected the second stories of the factory and brick building. Over the store was the paint shop and in the rear a warehouse. Hoffman's store was later occupied by William Schmidt, son of Rev. Wm. Schmidt, an early minister of the Evangelical Church. Schmidt had a dry goods store only, known as the Golden Lion store because of a large gilt lion over the entrance. Isaac Hoffman, son of Jacob, carried on the factory and store for several years; later John S. Anthes was in possession while Hoffman went to Waterloo and continued the furniture business there with Adam Klippert and Martin Wegenast as partners. Jacob and John Hoffman erected a number of houses in Berlin. Jacob Hoffman was very stout, weighing over 300 pounds. He was a member of the Evangelical Church. For a time he served on the village council. He resided on Foundry Street in the rear of the Canadian Block in a square, hip roof, two story, frame house, until it was destroyed by fire, when he moved to the west side of Foundry Street, south, where now is the Robe & Clothing Co. building. Here he had a one and one-half story frame house with a large two story addition at the rear where were lodged apprentices and other factory employees. There was a small portico over the front door and a porch extending along the northerly side of the house. Next to the Hoffman warehouse there was a saloon and restaurant occupied by a Mr. Unger. He served, among other things, oysters which came in small wooden, 1-gal. kegs. Adjoining Hoffman's store there was the tailor shop of H. J. Nahrgang, later occupied by Henry Glebe, an early band master; next a store differently occupied at various times and next the shoe store of Wm. Niehaus. A three story brick building occupied by Wm. Young as a grocery. Mr. Young eventually went to the Canadian Block and the store was used for various purposes, among them auction sales in the evening. Here there was sold the first white crockery offered in Berlin. Later the building was occupied by the Berliner Journal. A one and one-half story frame building with gable toward King St. and a veranda, occupied by Mr. Fuchs, a tailor and shoemaker, whose wife assisted her husband as expert in repairing clocks. The family lived in the building. About 1865 the frame building was moved to the rear and Fuchs' block erected on the street. The ground floor had three stores, the west one occupied by Mr. Fuchs, the middle by John Kayser, dry goods merchant, and the third one by Tindall Simpson and Sons, shoemakers and tailors. The first building on part of the Fuchs' block site was a rough frame structure used by one Susand, colored, who was the first barber in Berlin. A two story brick building with gable facing King Street, occupied by Christian Garman, harness maker, who later moved to New Hamburg and started a tannery. This building was later occupied by Levi Gaukel, son of Frederick Gaukel, after his father's death. He had a small hotel known as The Red Lion. In 1860 Urban Prinzer succeeded Gaukel and continued the hotel for a short time. A two and one-half story brick building with gable facing King St. was occupied by Levi Gaukel, as a butcher shop after he gave up the hotel next door. Jacob Gaukel was associated with Levi. Later George Debus occupied this shop. A building with gable and porch facing King Street, later occupied by George DeBus as a barber shop. On the corner of King and Queen Streets there was first a driving shed for the Gaukel hotel opposite, until the Bowman block was erected in 1860. This was a three story brick building lengthwise with King Street. Joseph Bowman the noted violinist occupied the third floor of this building. Half of the ground floor of the building was occupied by Henry B. Bowman with a partner Heins as general dry goods store. This was on the corner. The other half was a brick store occupied by Cole and Graf, druggists, and later by Wm. Bowman in the same business. On the site of the Bowman block is the handsome Bank building built by the Merchants Bank and now occupied by the Bank of Montreal. 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 _________________ Queen Street South, West Side. A frame building used as a tavern by Phineas Varnum and later the kitchen of the Gaukel Hotel. A frame building erected by Frederick Gaukel about 1833 as shelter for the considerable number of immigrants coming to Berlin at that time. In 1837 it was made into a dwelling for John Stroh, uncle of Jacob Stroh. Two children were born in this building, Katie, in 1838, (she married Jacob Oswald, still living, now 93 years of age), and Henry Stroh, born in 1840. Hall's Lane. A brick building erected about 1850. John Klein, father of John Klein of Buffalo, was the first occupant. Later the building was used as a printing office, first by the "Berlin Chronicle", William Jaffray editor and proprietor, and later by the "Berliner Journal", Rittinger & Motz. The site is now occupied by the Lockhart garage. The Franklin Hotel, a handsome, good-sized frame building, erected by Philip Roth about 1856. Successive hotel-keepers were John Klein, Levi Gaukel, Frederick Riegelman, who later moved to Buffalo, and Jacob Weber. Weber was occupant in 1874 when the hotel was burned down. The fire started in the barn at the rear of the hotel. The hotel shed, next south, extended, at right angles, from Queen Street to the barn. A garden. A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with the street occupied by Christopher K. Nahrgang whose parents came from Hessen, Germany, about 1835. He was married to a Miss Zinkann of New Hamburg. A stone building used as a tailor shop by Mr. Nahrgang who was deaf and dumb. His wife helped him in the business. She lived to be 87. It was in this building that John Motz of the "Journal" and eventually County Sheriff, learned the tailoring trade. A one and one-half story dwelling, erected about 1857, occupied by George Fischer, barber, who had his shop on King Street. A later occupant was George Lutz, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory and after him Henry Schaefer's mother. A frame building lengthwise with the street, the church of the Evangelical denomination, erected in 1841. In 1866 it was replaced by the brick building still standing, now used as stores and upstairs dwellings. A one and one-half story frame building with kitchen at the rear erected by William Becking, wagonmaker, about 1848. Becking was noted as a hunter. White hare and passenger pigeons, practically extinct long ago, were abundant at that time. Becking's wagon-shop and lumber yard at the corner of John Street with the customary incline and stair to the second story of the shop. Up this incline the wagons were drawn to the paint shop. Valentine Gildner, at the corner of King and Benton Streets, did the blacksmith work for Becking's wagons. John Street. A one and one-half story house occupied by H. Baedecker in 1860 and later by Adam Doering. Rev. F. W. Tuerk's residence erected about 1860 by Henry Rothaermel, a carpenter. The matching and planing was all done by hand, slow but thorough work. Window sashes, panel doors and all other requirements were made in the same manner. A skilled workman at that time was expected to he able to do painting as well as carpenter work. A single room in the shape of a square turret on the ridge of the building was Rev. Tuerk's study. The house was up-hill about twenty feet above the street level so that the study on top gave a good outlook. The site is now occupied by the York Apartments. A frame building one and one-half story high. Nothing but a building used as an ashery between that and Joseph E. Schneider's house and farm buildings. 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

  [S4] Vit - ON - Marriage Registration. George Albert Pequegnat Born: CHE Age: 29 Father: Ulysses Pequegnat Mother: Francisca Pequegnat Born: abt 1857 Spouse: Alfreta Wilhelmina Gaukel Age: 29 born: Canada Father: Levi Gaukel Mother: Elizabeth Gaukel married 20 Oct 1886 [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library, #1 pg 160. Anna Barbara Gaukel wife of Levy Gaukel of Village of Berlin, Waterloo Township, died 10 Apr 1849, aged 20 y, 2 m, Cause: child-bed [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 198. Levi GAUKEL Butcher Canada 28 Lutheran b. 22-Sep M Elisabeth GAUKEL Germany 28 Lutheran b. 22-Aug F F. William GAUKEL Canada 4 Lutheran b. 16-Apr M Emanuel GAUKEL Canada 3 Lutheran b. 16-Jul M Maria GAUKEL14 Canada 1 Lutheran b. September F John WAAGNOR Labourer Germany 35 Lutheran b. M Barbara REICHART Germany 17 Lutheran b. F Philip REICHART Farmer Germany 64 Lutheran Res. Woolwich M [S2070] Directory - Ontario Directory for 1851. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev. Jacob Huttner, Lutheran Church, Preston, report 80. Levi Gaukel married Barbara Schafer both of Waterloo, 27 Apr 1847 Preston [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library. Levy Gaukel, 23, butcher of Waterloo married 10 Sep 1849 in Greenbush by license to Elisabeth Reichert, 22, of Waterloo. wit: Wilh. Reboller - brewer of Waterloo & Jacob Gaukel - labourer of Waterloo [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 198. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 33. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 2 Page 13. [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 14 Sep 1849:37. GAUKEL, Levi married 10 Sep 1849 To Elisabeth REICHART. minister F.W. Bindemann [S244] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Deutsche Canadier (1841-1865) - Index to Births, Deaths and Marriages Announced in the Deutsche Canadier, Berlin, Canada West. originally indexed by Simone Nieuwolt and Sylvie Kuppek..organised by Rosemary Ambrose, 29 Apr 1847:18. GAUKEL, Levi married 27 Apr 1847 To Barbara SCHAFER. minister Jacob Huttner

  
  

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  Born - Between 22 Sep 1823 and 1824 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Business - - Levi Gaukel & Co., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1847 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 27 Apr 1847 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - butcher - 1849 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 10 Sep 1849 - Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - butcher - 1851 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - butcher - 1852 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth