Johann Yost "John" Stroh

Abt 1783 - Bef 1861  (~ 77 years)

• Name	Johann Yost "John" Stroh
  Born	Abt 1783	Of, Lehrbach, District Of Alsfeld, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	Sep 1837	New York City, New York, USA.
  Name	John Stroh
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-79453
  Died	Bef 1861
  Person ID	I79453	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Anna Catherine Hahn,   b. 20 Aug 1786, , Germany ,   d. 28 May 1865, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 78 years)
  Children	1. Johannes "John" Stroh,   b. 25 Jan 1809, Lehrbach, District Of Alsfeld, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany ,   d. 4 Aug 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 92 years)   2. Conrad Stroh,   b. 3 Oct 1811, Lehrbach, District Of Alsfeld, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany ,   d. 13 Oct 1899, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 88 years)   3. Henry Stroh,   b. 5 Nov 1818, , Hessen, Germany ,   d. 28 Jun 1901, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)   4. John Yost "Yost" Stroh,   b. 24 Aug 1824, , Germany ,   d. 13 Dec 1910, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 86 years)
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F20673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  How More German Families Were Brought In At that stage there was a further influx of German hand-workers. In the main they came from Hesse, with sprinklings from Baden, Saxony. Mecklenburg, and other States. Woodworkers predominated. The Dorf however boasted a weaver, wagonmaker, hatmaker. a tailor (John Nahrgang), two shoemakers, and several carpenters, while Anselm Wagner, potter, made shilling crocks and flowerpots for the Hausfrau. A Dr. Klinkert was the first doctor. The late Jacob Stroh of Waterloo told how one German family brought in another. John Nahrgang, for example, wrote to his friend, Yost Stroh, of Lehrbach, Hesse-Darmstadt, a small land-owner and wagonmaker, urging him to come over, saying that good land could be bought at a low price. Yost Stroh reflected that his sons would soon be of age and require to serve seven years in the army: scratched his head when he thought of the seven or eight kinds of taxes he had to pay, including a head tax and a church tax; and winced when here remembered that the authorities took every tenth sheaf of grain he grew. So he resolved on emigrating. Mr. and Mrs. Stroh and their sons John, Conrad, Henry and Yost, Jr., after a Grüsz Gott from relatives, set out on a sailing ship in 1837. The perilous seas tossed them hither and yon for twelve weeks before they reached New York. There they boarded a steamer for Albany; rode to Oswego in a train that ran on wooden rails faced with iron; at Oswego embarked in a ship they thought was bound for Hamilton but which landed them in Toronto; returned by boat to Hamilton, and hired a Negro to drive them up to Preston; then had a Mr. Guggisburg bring them up to Berlin in a wagon. When the party stepped inside John Nahrgang's door their combined capital was nine cents. Work however was plentiful and the family soon became householders. Later on John bought a farm at Lexington for eight dollars an acre, and Conrad one at West Montrose for $2.00 an acre. Henry and Yost Jr. were apprenticed to shoemakers. Afterward Henry opened a shop in Schneider's Road where the Seiler and Saddler blocks now are. Henry married Frederick Gaukel's daughter Susannah, and Mr. Jacob Stroh was one of their sons. A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937 pg 39, 40 _________________________ It was reported that her husband YOST died by drowning in he mill pond in Bridgeport and was buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in Berlin.

  
  

• Event Map

  Immigration - Sep 1837 - New York City, New York, USA.  = Link to Google Earth