Waterloo Region Generations
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Joseph Jacob Geiger[1]

Male 1826 - 1890  (64 years)


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  • Name Joseph Jacob Geiger 
    Born 9 Mar 1826  , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Name Jacob Geiger 
    Occupation 1852  Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    mason 
    • Lived with George Gaukel
    Eby ID Number 00002-290.10 
    Died 19 Sep 1890  Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5
    Buried Masonic Cemetery, Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Person ID I79264  Generations
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2024 

    Father Johann Adam Geiger,   b. 1804,   d. 1853, , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 49 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Koerber,   b. 1805,   d. 1838, , Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Family ID F35265  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth T. Hollinger,   b. 11 May 1824, Obermiesau, Pfalz, Bavaria, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Dec 1896, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years) 
    Married 11 May 1852  Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 6, 7
    Children 
     1. Louisa Geiger,   b. 17 Oct 1852, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Sep 1937  (Age 84 years)
     2. Jacob Geiger,   b. 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1863, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 9 years)
     3. Carl "Charles" Geiger,   b. 3 Apr 1854, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Jun 1885, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years)
     4. Carolina Geiger,   b. 18 Feb 1856, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1932  (Age 75 years)
     5. George Geiger,   b. 19 Mar 1859, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Sep 1927, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    Last Modified 7 Apr 2024 
    Family ID F38581  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Joseph Jacob Geiger
    Joseph Jacob Geiger
    harnackd originally shared this to Ancestry Public Member Tree

  • Notes 
    • Frederick Street, East Side.

      On the corner Millar's store and at its rear a warehouse belonging to it, a two story building with gable toward Frederick Street.

      A vacant lot, site of the present Market Building, surrounded by a six foot hoard fence, customary in those days to keep out cattle, which had the freedom of the streets. A one and one-half story frame building with porch in front occupied by Mr. Yeck who died of being bled by a layman when he was Dr. Scott's patient. A man Geiger married the widow and lived in the building.

      A small frame building occupied by Geo. Schmidt.

      A small frame building occupied by Wm. Stein.

      A two story frame building with a small portico painted white over the front door, the house occupied by Thomas Pierce, then Principal of the Central School and later by Herman Rathman.

      On the corner, now occupied by Dr. Honsberger's residence, a two story brick building for some time the residence of Sheriff Davidson. Before that, 1840-1860, Jacob Kramer occupied the building as a tavern. Kramer was known as Strumpf Weber (stocking weaver) from a former occupation in a shop on Oueen Street S.

      Weber Street. On the corner a large brick building erected by Christian Enslin about 1855 with veranda along the entire Frederick Street front and on it a narrow gallery at the second floor. The building is still in use for stores with the veranda removed. At one time it was occupied as a tavern.

      A one and one-half story frame building lengthwise with Frederick St. On the easterly corner of what is now Spetz St., a two story brick building, set back somewhat from the street, the house of Peter Rebscher. It had a large sign, "Peter Rebscher Brewer"; in the rear was the brewery, a two story frame building, and a large barn. A later brewer was Jacob Summer and after him, in 1862, Joseph Spetz had the house and brewery until he died.

      A vacant lot belonging to John Roth and later to Simon Roy who used it as a nursery for shrubs and rare trees.

      The old Central School and grounds, the school now remodelled and greatly enlarged to the present handsome Suddaby School. The Central School building had a belfry on top with at first a small bell and later a larger one. Jacob Stroh rang this bell as long as he attended the Central School, later W. H. Breithaupt had this charge for a time.

      A frame building occupied by Yost Kimmel, a carpenter.

      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 
    1. [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..., 117.

    2. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 1.

    3. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95125309.

    4. [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library.
      Jacob Geiger, mason of Berlin married 11 May 1852 in Greenbush by license to Elisabeth Jaeck (widow) nee Hollinger, wit: August Fuchs of Berlin & Michael Zimmerman of Bridgeport

    5. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Sec. 5 Page 19.

    6. [S13] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - Wellington District Marriage Register Part 1 1840-1852, Rev'd Frederick W. Bindemann, Minister of The United Lutheran and German Reformed Protestant Church, Greenbush, Waterloo Twp., 1 Jan. 1852 - 1 Jan. 1853 #226.

    7. [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, 13 May 1852:20.
      GEIGER, Jacob married 11 May 1852 To Elisabeth JACK, nee HOLLINGER. Both from Berlin minister F.W. Bindemann

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 9 Mar 1826 - , Germany Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - mason - 1852 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 11 May 1852 - Greenbush (Kitchener), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 19 Sep 1890 - Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Masonic Cemetery, Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado, United States Link to Google Earth
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