Joseph B. Stauffer^{[1, 2, 3]}

1852 - 1936  (83 years)

• Name	Joseph B. Stauffer
  Born	9 Aug 1852	Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	business, story
  Occupation	1891	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Traveller
  Residence	1891	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Methodist
  Occupation	1901	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Manufacturer
  Occupation	1911	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Manufacturer, Robe Works
  Residence	1911	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Methodist
  Residence	1936	Aberdeen Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Eby ID Number	00002-258.4
  Died	18 Feb 1936	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7, 8]
  Buried	Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7, 8]
  Person ID	I7456	Generations
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Joseph B. Stauffer,   b. CALC 23 Nov 1818, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 9 Jul 1853, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 34 years)
  Mother	Nancy Bowman,   b. 31 Aug 1827, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1889, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F2256	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Magdalena "Lena" Clemens,   b. 25 Mar 1855, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 9 Feb 1925  (Age 69 years)
  Children	1. Claud Clemens Stauffer,   b. 13 Jun 1883, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 19 Nov 1947  (Age 64 years)   2. Clive Bowman Stauffer,   b. 13 Jun 1883, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Mar 1946  (Age 62 years)   3. Elsie Stauffer,   b. Oct 1892, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Joseph Stauffer,   b. 13 May 1896, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Joseph Stanley Stauffer,   b. 16 May 1896, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 16 Jun 1978, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F2932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "Joseph Stauffer Passes at Galt - Prominent Industrialist Was Self-Made Man: Suffered Two Strokes (Galt) Joseph Stauffer, prominent industrialist and descendant of a pioneer Waterloo county family, died this morning at his residence here. He was in his 83rd year and was quite active until Sunday evening when he suffered a slight stroke followed by a more severe one Monday morning from which he failed to rally. He was president of Newlands and Company, Limited, vice-pres. of Stauffer Dobbie Ltd., vice-pres. of the Galt Art Metal Company and a director of the Waterloo Fire Insurance Company. He was born near the village of Doon, his parents natives of Waterloo county. His grandparents originally from Switzerland, came to Waterloo county from Pennsylvania in 1802. Joseph Stauffer was a self-made man. His father died when he was but 11 months old. He came to Galt as a youth and went into the livery business. In 1891 he joined the Newlands firm as a traveller and seven years later became a partner in the firm in which he was active until his death. He was a staunch Conservative and was noted as an after dinner speaker and story teller. He was greatly interested in the work of the Waterloo County Historical Society and contributed much valued early history of the county. He is survived by three sons and one daughter, Claude and Joseph of Toronto, Clive of Galt, and Mrs. Alex Logan of Vancouver." KW Record obit. of Tues., Feb. 18, 1936 ________________ "Biography-JosephStauffer" "Joseph Stauffer, the subject of this sketch was born near Doon in 1852 and died in Galt on Feb. 18th, 1936, in his 84th year. Joseph Stauffer was the son of Joseph Stauffer, Sr. and Nancy Bowman. His ancestor left Switzerland for Germany and thence migrated to the United States, settling in Pa. about 1738. In 1802 his pioneer forefather located on a farm near Doon. The father died when Joseph was but eleven months old. The mother later moved to Blair and from there to Sheffield, where Joseph grew to manhood. Joseph Stauffer's first business venture was a partnership with the late John Sipes of Galt where they conducted a livery business for 12 years. In 1891 Mr. Stauffer joined the firm of Newlands and Company Limited as salesman. His success on the road was such that he was admitted to membership in this firm and later became president of the company, which position he held until his death. In 1903 Mr. Stauffer and the late Andrew Newland organized another textile plant known as the Galt Robe Company, Limited, which firm later became the Stauffer-Dobbie Company, Limited. Mr. Stauffer was also Vice-President of the Galt Art Metal Company, director of the Waterloo Fire Insurance Company, local Vice-President of the Waterloo Historical Society and for a number of years a member of the Galt City Council. Mr. Stauffer in spite of having started at the bottom of the ladder nevertheless succeeded in each of his various enterprises against all obstacles, and achieved noteworthy objectives in the wide field of his activities. These were not by any means confined to commercial or financial interests only but included the broader realm of success fulliving. Mr. Stauffer was a man beloved of his family. He had a keen, active and generous interest in the community in which he lived. His political sagacity was outstanding and his patriotism with respect to Canadian and British institutions was sincere and worthy of emulation. In his business undertakings, so widely diversified, his successes wer enot only gratifying from the standpoint of personal prowess but also in the enriched regard and respect which he won from those associated with him and from those with whom his business was conducted. Mr. Stauffer's partner in life was the late Lena Clemens, daughter of Oliver Clemens of Blair, also deceased. Mr. Stauffer's family comprised three sons and one daughter. Few descendants of our early settlers took as much interest in their ancestral family history as did Mr. Stauffer, who, after visiting Pennsylvania to learn what he could of the family tree, spent severa lmonths in Switzerland in 1925 and visited the home of his forebears. He succeeded in tracing the history of the Stauffer family back for a period of eleven hundred years. Incidentally he found three representatives ofthe family had in their time held responsible positions in the government after Switzerland became a republic. Among the traditions of the Stauffer family in America is the record of the coming of the first Stauffers from Muckenhauserhof, Wurtemberg, Germany, whither members of the family had fled during earlier years to escape the persecution of non-conformists in Switzerland. While in Germany, Maritn Stauffer had determined to emigrate and settle in America but a fatal illness overtook him before his plans could be carried out. Upon his death bed he urged his young sons to take their mother to America with them as soon as possible after his demise. This was done but the difficulties of a journey of several hundred miles were increased by the fact that the mother was crippled. Due to the small resources of the family, the sons were obliged to improvise a wheel chair or hand wagon in which they personally conveyed their mother several hundred miles from this far inland part of Germany to the seaport fromwhich they secured passage to Pennsylvania." (contributed by C.T. Groh) Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1936 pg. 237-238 on pg. 239

  
  

• Sources

  [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..., 110. [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..., 510. [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..., 418. [S259] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1901, Galt (Town/Ville) C-6 Page 3. [S572] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1911, Div. 15 Page 20. [S1800] Census - ON, Waterloo, Galt - 1891, Section 2 Page 103. [S116] Vit - ON - Death Registration. Name:Joseph Stauffer Gender:Female Age:83 Birth Date:6 Aug 1852 Birth Place:Ontario Death Date:18 Feb 1936 Occ: manufacturer Death Place:Aberdeen Rd. S., Galt, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Father:Joseph Stauffer Mother:Nancy Bowman [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67414714/joseph-b-stauffer.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 9 Aug 1852 - Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Traveller - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1891 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Manufacturer - 1901 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Manufacturer, Robe Works - 1911 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 18 Feb 1936 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth