George Seip^[1]

1820 - 1877  (57 years)

• Name	George Seip
  Born	13 Feb 1820	Beerfelden, Odenwaldkreis, Hessen, Germany   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Seip's Brewery
  Residence	1845	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Occupation	1847	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	cooper
  Occupation	1848	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	cooper
  Occupation	1851	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  	cooper
  Occupation	1852	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	cooper
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Brewer
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lutheran
  Business	1 May 1868
  	Brewery equipment seisure
  		BrewerySales-GuelphEveningMercury-1May1868.jpg
  Elected Office	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Councillor - Kitchener Council
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Distiller
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1877	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	beer brewer
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-42557P
  Died	21 May 1877	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 11]
  	Cause: weak heart
  Person ID	I42557	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Family	Maria "Mary" Peppler,   b. 15 Feb 1813, , Germany ,   d. 1 Jul 1879, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 66 years)
  Married	20 Apr 1845	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  Children	1. Catherine Seip,   b. 20 Oct 1846, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Feb 1915, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 68 years)   2. Anna Catharine Wilhelmina "Mina" Seip,   b. 28 Jul 1847, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Jun 1930, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)   3. Ludwig "Louis" Seip,   b. 8 Jan 1849, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Oct 1884, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 35 years)   4. Anna Catharine Seip,   b. 15 Jun 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 12 Aug 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 2 years)
  Last Modified	4 Mar 2025
  Family ID	F11069	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Sudden Death - The well known Dr. George Seip died all of a sudden of a heart disease. He had been healthy by a few days before when he felt a throat swelling rendering it slightly difficult for him to speak and swallow. Since he had got a tooth extracted and caught a cold afterwards. One believed that to be the cause of the complaints. He went to bed at 10 o'clock, started soon to speak confused and passed away quite suddenly. Dr Seip was from Berfelden in the Hessen-Darmstadtischen part of the Odenwald. He came over to Berlin 34 years ago ( slightly earlier) and lived here ever since. He first worked as a Kufer-Nufer (Cooper?), then for now about 20 years he was engaged in the brewery. He was kind and friendly to everyone, and therefore, liked and highly respected. [Dr. means highly respected citizen, translated by a studen in Germany] "Peace to his ashes" Berliner Journal 24 May 1877 _____________________ QUEEN STREET SOUTH, EAST SIDE. On the corner of King Street Rehscher's vaulted cellar already spoken of. An open space. A two-story rough-cast building with two-story veranda along the Queen Street front built by Martin Anthes (father of John S. Anthes) in 1835 when it was considered one of the best houses in the village. Henry Stroh purchased this house from Mr. Anthes about 1837. Jacob Stroh was born in this house. Behind it there was a garden of about an acre of land. There were 31 pine stumps on the property when Mr. Stroh took possession and these stumps had to be laboriously removed as stump- pulling machines, which came later, were not then available. The well on the lot was only nine feet deep. Henry Stroh carried on a shoe shop in his house until he entered into partnership with Carl Kranz, on King Street. In 1857, after he had dissolved partnership with Kranz, Henry Stroh built a one and one-half story frame building next to his house and used it as a shoe store. Mr. Stroh continued in this shoe business until 1863 when he went into partnership with Mr. Reinhold Lang, the tanner. The Queen Street shoe shop was changed to a dwelling. Later Mr. Vanderhart, a tailor, had his shop in this building and after him Carl Englehart had it as photographer. Henry Stroh sold his house to George King. Later Charles Ahrens owned it and had it moved to the corner of Shanley and Braun Streets about 1880. A one and one-half story frame building erected about 1837 by Jacob Kraemer, later on Frederick Street, as spoken of. Later an addition was added to the front and the building used as the local post office, with William Davidson in charge. Later George Seip purchased the building and used it as a saloon, with a bowling alley in the rear, the first bowling alley in Berlin. William Jaffray lived in the house for a time and later William Knell, son-in-law of Mr. Seip. A one and one-half story frame building, originally a cooper shop, later the dwelling of Mr. Seip, after he sold the other building. In 1860 he built a brewery, known as Seip's brewery. Under the whole building he had a vaulted cellar built of field stone. Power for the brewery was supplied by a horse-power contained in an attached shed, shelter for the horses. Seip had a high reputation for good beer. He at first made his own malt, but later purchased it. After George Seip's death his son Louis continued the business until about 1880. The building was finally torn down to make room for the present auditorium. The cooper shop, a small one story building, with brick chimney such as coopers used to heat staves for their barrel making, operated by Henry Brickner who later had his shop at the corner of Young and King Streets. Later Adam Stein had the Queen Street cooper shop. The Berlin coopers were experts in the making of what was called tight-wear,that is water-tight barrels, in large tuns which they made for the brewers. A very early building, occupied by John Peters, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory, about 1860. The building had an outside stairway at the back. Peters was a bird lover and expert in trapping native song birds, mocking birds, cat birds, finches, etc., which he hung under his veranda roof in public display. On the corner of Church Street a frame house occupied by Mr. Knechtel, a weaver, about 1842-1850. Knechtel moved to a farm in Mannheim where later he was injured in the spine by a falling tree to such an extent that he was bedfast for fourteen or fifteen years. He lived to about 1871. Conrad Doering occupied the Queen Street house for a time. He also was a weaver and made coverlets, etc. The house was torn down to make room for the present one of brick built by Dr. Clemens and later occupied by the late Dr. Walters. Church Street. On the south side St. Paul's Lutheran Church. A one and one-half story unpainted frame building with gable towards the street, the dwelling, about 1860, of John Fleischauer, a laborer, a native of Hessen, Germany. A one and one-half story house occupied by E. Kern, cabinet maker, about 1860 and later by John Ansted. A vacant lot. George Street. Joseph Schneider originally owned all the land between George Street and Mill Street, mostly woods at that time, and extending to Benton and Eby Streets. 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

  [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library, pg 26. Anna Catharine, daughter of Georg and Maria Peppler, born 15 Jun 1851, bapt 3 Aug 1851. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 13. George SEIB Cooper Germany 32 Lutheran b. 13-Feb Maria SEIB Germany 39 Lutheran b. 15-Feb Kathrine SEIB Canada 7 Lutheran b. 20-Oct Wilhelmine SEIB Canada 5 Lutheran b. 28-Aug Ludwig SEIB Canada 4 Lutheran b. 10-Jan Kathrine SEIB Canada 1 Lutheran b. 8-Jun Adam SEIB Cooper Germany 29 Lutheran b. 12-Dec [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 4 Page 39. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 24 May 1877. George SEIP Died 21 May 1877 In Berlin, George Seip died suddenly from a weak heart at the age of 57 years, 3 months, 8 days. He was a beer brewer [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Sect. 2 Page 24. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Jacob Huttner, Lutheran Minister, Preston report 53. George Seip, to Mary Peppler, both of Waterloo. 20 Apr. 1845 [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library. 5 Sept. 1847, Catharine Wilhelmina, born 28 July 1847, daughter of George SEIP and Maria PEPPLER, Cooper of Waterloo [S38] Vit - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register loose sheets, Frederick W. Bindemann, minister of the Evangelical Protestant Lutheran and German Reformed Church at Greenbush, marriages 6 July 1847 to 1 Apr 1848. Franz Schmitt, cooper of Waterloo Village to Dorothea Nahrgang of the same place, married Waterloo Township, witnesses: George Seip, cooper of Waterloo Twp. and Joseph Snyder of the same place [S2070] Directory - Ontario Directory for 1851. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 13. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), Obituary of George Seip - 24 May 1877.

  
  

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  Born - 13 Feb 1820 - Beerfelden, Odenwaldkreis, Hessen, Germany Business - Seip's Brewery - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1845 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 20 Apr 1845 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - cooper - 1847 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - cooper - 1848 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - cooper - 1851 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - cooper - 1852 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Brewer - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Elected Office - Councillor - Kitchener Council - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Distiller - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - beer brewer - 1877 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: weak heart - 21 May 1877 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth