Noah W. Gingrich^[1]

1842 - 1914  (71 years)

• Name	Noah W. Gingrich
  Born	14 Nov 1842	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Name	N. W. Gingrich
  Occupation	1881	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Manufacturer W.
  Residence	1881	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Manufacturer
  Residence	1891	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Methodist
  Occupation	1901	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Woollen Manufacturer
  Occupation	1911	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Laborer
  Residence	1911	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Evangelical Association
  Eby ID Number	00039-3158
  Died	6 Sep 1914	St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Cause: Cardiac Disease 18 months-Heart Failure suddenly
  Buried	Calvary United Cemetery, St. Jacobs, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I5921	Generations
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2025

  
  

  Father	David Gingerich,   b. 1812, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 9 Dec 1862  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Lydia Weber,   b. 8 Sep 1816, Earl Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 14 Nov 1857  (Age 41 years)
  Married	14 Mar 1837	Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  Family ID	F1808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Catherine L. Weber,   b. 18 Jan 1845, Ellice Township, Perth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 31 May 1925  (Age 80 years)
  Married	16 Jan 1872	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 4]
  Children	1. Olive Gingrich,   b. 30 Oct 1872, Chicopee (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 25 Nov 1953  (Age 81 years)   2. Charles Gingrich,   b. 1874, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Collin W. Gingrich,   b. 19 Oct 1874, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Eva Gingrich,   b. 30 Jan 1876, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1954  (Age 77 years)   5. Harvey Weber Gingrich,   b. 30 Aug 1877, Chicopee (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 31 Jul 1929, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 51 years)   6. Edwin Gingrich,   b. 1879, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Edwin W. Gingrich,   b. 10 Nov 1879, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Ida Gingrich,   b. 1881, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Edith Gingrich,   b. 25 Apr 1882, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Mar 1939, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 56 years)   10. Alice Gingrich,   b. 10 Apr 1884, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1975  (Age 90 years)   11. Stella Gingrich,   b. 1886, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   12. Estella Gingrich,   b. 3 Jul 1886, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 Feb 1966, Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States  (Age 79 years)   13. Lloyd Gingrich,   b. 20 May 1889, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Apr 1890  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	10 Jun 2025
  Family ID	F1813	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Noah Gingerich, "was born November 14th, 1842. He was married to Catharine, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth (Lehman) Weber, January 16th, 1872. She was born January 18th, 1845. They reside in St. Jacobs where he is engaged in manufacturing woollen goods. They have a family of nine children." Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.]. _________________________ This week we are called upon to chronicle the death of one of the older residents of St. Jacobs in the person of Mr. Noah W. Gingrich, who passed away very suddenly early Sunday morning at his home her, in his seventy second year. He was born near Conestogo in 1842. He served as an apprentice in the woolen business in Hawkesville, after which he worked at the trade in Battersea, Peterboro and South Bend, Indiana. In partnership with Mr. D. L. Weber he conducted the woolen mill at Chicopee for some years, after which he and Mr. E. W. B. Snider carried on a woolen trade in Nottaway, Grey Co., conjointly with the woolen mill in St. Jacobs. The woolen mill in St. Jacobs was conducted by Mr. Gingrich until a few years ago when it was taken over by the Canada Felting Co., when he retired from business. This spring he disposed of his old home to the Bank of Nova Scotia and had got comfortably settled in his fine new home on Yonge St., when the call came calmly in the morning twilight to transfer his abode into better realms above. Mr. Gingrich had always been an industrious and progressive citizen, an ardent Liberal in politics, an adherent of the Evangelical church, and as a sportsman he had few equals as a successful angler. In 1872 he married Miss Catherine Weber, who is left behind with a family of three sons and five daughters to mourn the loss of a devoted husband and father. The children are: Colin, in North Bay, Harvey in St. Jacobs, Edwin in Jansen, Sask., Mrs. N. S. Snyder, Toronto, Mrs. P. E. Bowman, St. Jacobs, Mrs. Seaman, Rochester, N. Y., Edith in Toronto, and Alice at home. Besides his wife and eight children he is survived by three brothers and four sisters and ten grandchildren. The funeral service conducted by Rev. W. O. Hehn was held on Wednesday at 2.30 p.m., from his late residence to the Evangelical cemetery for interment, and was largely attended by is old friends and neighbors. The pall-bearers were: Messrs. S. Weber, M. L. Weber, D. Weber, J. C. Shelley, W. H. Winkler, and F. E. Welker. Elmira Signet Sep 10 1914 pg 2 ______________ N. W. GINGRICH This name is familiar to nearly every man, woman and child for a good many miles around, and St. Jacobs has no citizen more popular. Mr. Gingrich was born in Woolwich Township, Nov. 14th 1842. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Gingrich, came to Canada when quite young from Lancaster, Pa, sometime early in 1800. The subject of this sketch learned what hard work was until he was past sixteen years of age when he commenced to learn the woolen trade, March 18, 1859, with John Brubacher, who was running what were known as the Crystal Springs Woolen Mills and now as Tanner's tannery, near Hawksville. He remained there four years. He then went to Michigan on a visit to his brothers, John and Eli. He got as far as Iona from where he took the stage to Greenville, a distance of 20 miles, arriving there about midnight. The next morning he started on a forty mile tramp for his brothers' homes, and reached the home of one Hinton at night after completing a distance of thirty miles on foot. The next morning he started from Hinton's on a ten mile tramp through an entirely uninhabited country, reaching his brothers about noon He remained there until the middle of May after which he returned to Ontario and in the following June commenced to work for Jacob Eby in the woolen mills near the site of the old saw mill in St. Jacobs in 1863. In the fall of 1863 and forepart of the winter of 1864 he attended school at Floradale. The following March he accepted a position with Wenger & Weaver a Elmira, working there until the following August, when he worked for his uncle, Jacob Gingrich, in harvest and then he picked up his "traps" an started for Caledonia, Mich., where for over a year he had his home with Rev. Abraham Detweiler and worker as a general farm hand during the winter of 1864 . He remained there until the fall of 1865, when he and one Isaac Wenger went to Indiana where he visited his relatives and to some time worked for one Christ Good formerly of Conestogo. In the fore part of 1866 he was employed with Jos. Shirk in Elkhart County, Ind driving team and hauling saw logs, etc In the following March he commenceed working at his trade in South Bend and remained there until the fall following, when he went to Waukan Wis., on a visit to his uncle Peter Weaver. He then came back to Canada and again worked for J. and H Brubacher at Crystal Springs in 1867 For two months be worked for McCullough & Wilson of Hawksville. In the winter of 1867 he was collecting for the latter firm a month or two, and in the following summer when they moved to St. Jacobs became also and engaged with them in the spring of 1867 and continued until 1868. The firm then sold the property and purchased the Chicopee mills where he again was employed as collector for them, and went into the factory in the spring of 1869 and remained there until the following year when he went to Waterloo and made cigars for one Moyer one year. In 1871 he worked for the Waterhouse and Bradberry Woolen Mills of Ingersoll. He then went to work for Dan Brooks at Peterborough where he was engaged until May 23, when he obtained position in the Battersea Woolen Mills, 16 miles north of Kingston. In September following be returned to Peterborough where he accepted his old place and worked there until Christmas. He then went back to Chicopee. He was married on 16th 1872 Catherine, daughter of Jacob Weaver and on the 18th he moved to Chicopee where he worked for Mr. Brubacher five years. In February 1877, he and Mr. Weaver purchased what is known as Chicopee Mills and carried it on under the name Gingrich & Weaver for four years. In the spring of 1881 he bought the St. Jacobs mills and has operated them ever since. He built the new store room he now occupies in 1890 at a cost of $2,800, and a new addition to his residence in 1892 making it about one of the largest brick residence in the village. His store room is stocked to its utmost with fabrics, hoisery, yarn, etc. of almost every description, and he is now making specialty flannels that he says cannot be excelled anywhere for quality and durability. He and his wife been blessed with nine children four sons and five daughters, but the younger son died in 1890. All are at home except their daughter Olive, who is the wife of Mr. Noah Snyder of Toronto. Two of his sons Colin and Edwin are working in the woolen mill and Harvey is employed in J. L. Wideman's drug store. Three of them are accomplished musicians, being members of the St. Jacobs musical society. Waterloo Chronicle 9 Dec 1897, p. 2

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Book - Vol II A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 620. [S3] Book - Vol I A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county : being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin..., 691. [S148] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1901, Woolwich F-3 Page 16. [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian). Bridegroom Name: Noah W. Gingerich Age: 29 Res: Waterloo Place of Birth: Woolwich Names of Parents: David & Lydia Gingerich Bride: Name: Cathar. Weber Age: 26 Res: St. Jacobs Place of Birth: Ellice Tp. Names of Parents: Jacob & Elisabeth Weber Witness(S): Name: Daniel L. Weber Res: St. Jacobs Name: Saly Hagey Res: Waterloo Tp. Date of Marriage: Jan. 16, 1872 [S178] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo South - 1881, Waterloo S. Twp. 1881 Div 1 Page 25. [S348] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1911, Div. 16 Page 17. [S1821] Census - ON, Waterloo, Woolwich - 1891, Section 3 Page 35. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 16 Mar 1837:14. last Tuesday Benjamin Eby m. David Gingrich to Lydia Weber, daughter of Johann Weber, all of Woolwich Tp.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 14 Nov 1842 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 16 Jan 1872 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Manufacturer W. - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1881 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Manufacturer - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1891 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Woollen Manufacturer - 1901 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Laborer - 1911 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical Association - 1911 - Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: Cardiac Disease 18 months-Heart Failure suddenly - 6 Sep 1914 - St. Jacobs, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Calvary United Cemetery, St. Jacobs, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth