Frederick "Bismark" Marti

1823 - 1904  (81 years)

• Name	Frederick "Bismark" Marti
  Born	1823	, Switzerland   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1861	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Lutheran
  House of Industry and Refuge	1881	House of Industry and Refuge, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Pauper
  Residence	1881	House of Industry and Refuge, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  House of Industry and Refuge	1904	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  Name	Bismark
  Name	Fred Marte
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-60773
  Died	4 Mar 1904	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Cause: bright's disease
  Buried	Toronto School of Anatomy, Toronto, York Co., Ontario   [3]
  Person ID	I60773	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Christian Marti,   b. 1788, , Switzerland ,   d. 13 Apr 1872, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F229782	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Of all the inmates of the Waterloo County House of Industry and Refuge throughout the years none was better known than Bismark, the deaf mute who spent his waking hours trudging up and down Frederick Street within the bounds of poor-house property dressed in the red coat of A British soldier. Poor old Bismark, with his wooden gun and his hat full of paper clippings. The Ontario Anatomy Act had no terrors for him, but his lifeless body was the first sent from Berlin to Toronto under its provisions to be a subject for scientific research. Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1947, Mabel Dunham

  
  

• Sources

  [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div 1 Page 54. [S1473] Census - ON, Waterloo, Preston - 1861, Div. 2 Page 29. [S1848] House of Industry and Refuge Burial Register - Kitchener, Pg 14 No. 443 Reg. Number in Admittance Record Book: 241. Fred. (Bismark) Marti Died: 04 Mar 1904 Aged 83 Cause: Bright's Disease Comment and Remarks: To School of A. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div 1 pg 54 & 55.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1823 - , Switzerland Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada House of Industry and Refuge - 1881 - House of Industry and Refuge, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Pauper - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1881 - House of Industry and Refuge, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada House of Industry and Refuge - 1904 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: bright's disease - 4 Mar 1904 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Toronto School of Anatomy, Toronto, York Co., Ontario  = Link to Google Earth