Dr. Benjamin Franklin "Franklin" Devitt^{[1, 2]}

1870 - 1943  (73 years)

• Name	Benjamin Franklin "Franklin" Devitt
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	6 Jan 1870	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Name	B. F. Devitt
  Name	Franklin Devitt
  Residence	1871	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Evangelical
  Residence	1881	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Evangelical
  Occupation	1891	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Store Clerk
  Residence	1891	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Evangelical
  Eby ID Number	00030-2331
  Died	4 Dec 1943	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  Buried	7 Dec 1943	Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I8095	Generations
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2025

  
  

  Father	Mayor Benjamin Devitt,   b. 10 Jul 1835, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Sep 1910, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Nancy Lewis Bowman,   b. 1 Jan 1839, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 May 1921  (Age 82 years)
  Married	29 Sep 1857	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7, 8]
  		Devitt,Benjamin-NancyL.Bowman-biblerecord.jpg
  Family ID	F2410	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Franklin Devitt, "unmarried, is a miller in Quaker City Mills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.]. ________________ DR. B. F. DEVITT A native of Waterloo, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Devitt, 74, died Saturday, at Philadelphia, Pa., where he had practised for the past 50 years. Death was due to a heart condition. Dr. Devitt attended Central School in Waterloo and the K-W Collegiate. He started practice in Philadelphia after graduating from the Philadelphia Medical College. His parents were the late Benjamin and Nancy Bowman. He was predeceased by four brothers, A. Harvey, Alvah, Edward and Daniel Orville and by three sisters, Mrs. E. L. Breithaupt, Mrs. George Hinchcliff and Miss Olive Devitt. Public funeral service will be held Tuesday, at 3: 30 at the Schreiter-Sandrock Funeral Home, with Rev. D. I. Forsythe officiating. Interment will be in Waterloo Mount Hope Cemetery. The remains are resting at the Schreiter-Sandrock Funeral Home. Sympathy of friends will be accepted without flowers. Kitchener Daily Record 6 Dec 1943 pg 13

  
  

• 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..., 146. [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..., 529. [S302] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1881, Waterloo Village 1881 Div. 1 Page 18. [S1573] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1891, Section 3 Page 29. [S2858] z Vit - ON - Birth Registration, birth certificate 005615 (1870). Name:Benjamin Franklin Dewitt Devitt Date of Birth:6 Jan 1870 Gender:Male Birth Place:Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Father's name:Benjamin Devitt Mother's name:Mary Bowman [S2658] aaaaWaterloo Village 1871, Sect. 2 Page 4. [S14] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Chronicle (1856-1860), September 30, 1857. At Berlin, on the 29th instant, by the Revd. Mr. Smith, Mr. Benjamin Devitt, of Lancaster, to Miss Nancy Bowman, of Waterloo Village. [S31] News - ON, Waterloo, Cambridge - Dumfries Reformer (1850-1892), 7 Oct 1857. Bowman, Nancy married 29 Sep 1857 to Benjamin DEVITT At Berlin by Rev Smith. Benjamin, of Lancaster; Nancy, of Waterloo.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 6 Jan 1870 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical - 1881 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Store Clerk - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Evangelical - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 4 Dec 1943 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Buried - 7 Dec 1943 - Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth