Arthur James "A. J." Krueger

1886 - 1953  (66 years)

• Name	Arthur James "A. J." Krueger
  Born	19 Sep 1886	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1891	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1901	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Woolen Mill
  Business	1905	Queen St. E., Hespeler Waterloo Co., Ontario
  	Krueger Meats
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  Name	A. J. Krueger
  Occupation	1911	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Butcher
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  Residence	1911	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Methodist
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-84358
  Died	1953	Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I84358	Generations
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	John W. Krueger,   b. 28 Mar 1860, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Maria "Mary" Rehmann,   b. 5 May 1863, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	29 Jun 1884	Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Family ID	F21908	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ella Gertrude Duckworth,   b. 1 Mar 1895, West Garafraxa Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario ,   d. 31 Jul 1978, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 83 years)
  Children	1. Majorie Annie Krueger,   b. 4 Feb 1922, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Mar 1994, Burnaby, , British Columbia, Canada  (Age 72 years)   2. John "Jack" Krueger   3. James "Jim" Krueger
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2025
  Family ID	F55186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Arthur James Krueger opened his shop on the south side of Queen East, between Cooper Street and Tannery Street East, under the name "Krueger Meats". Simply by calling telephone number 11, your meat order would be filled and delivered to your door, the same day, by horse and wagon. A. J., as he was commonly called, operated his shop until 1922, before taking up farming in the area and began a career trucking livestock for J. M. Schneider's while still operating a slaughter house on Townline Road. ______________________________________ Hespelerites gave way to Krueger's cattle drive Walter Gowing tells the tale of Hespeler farmer Arthur Krueger by Walter Gowing Cambridge Times Move over Galt, you can't top Hespeler. A few weeks ago in this column there was a story about the late Sandy Baird, editor of the Record, calling Galt a one-horse town. Well, according to Jack Krueger of Hespeler, his town can do one better. "My father owned a farm at the end of River Road," said Jack, "and he told me how he got his cattle from the farm to the Great Western Railway, later the Canadian National Railway station on Guelph Street in the late 1800s and early 1900s." Proud of Hespeler, Jack was born here 88 years ago. His father, Arthur James Krueger, called Hespeler "the greatest little town in Ontario" and became a successful farmer, a drover and later a livestock trucker. The Kruegers carted mostly pigs and cattle for other farmers, calling the business Krueger & Sons Livestock Dealers. Arthur opened a butcher shop in 1915 near the Presbyterian Church on Queen Street. He sold fresh meat from his own farm. "Yeah, move along, doggy," yelled Jack's father as he drove a herd of cattle down River Road onto Queen Street, and a right turn down the hill at Guelph Street to a holding pen at the railway station. The herd of beef cattle straggled over the near five-kilometre stretch from the Krueger farm to the railway station across the Speed River on Guelph Street. Pedestrians had to give way to the mooing herd as their hoofs pounded the village's main street. It was a scene right out of an old western movie. John Wayne was nowhere in sight, but Arthur Krueger competently handled the cattle drive. Once at the station, the cattle would be corralled into pens awaiting a train from Preston, when they would be loaded into cattle cars and shipped to the Toronto Stock Yards via the town of Guelph. Near where the station once sat, you can see the old brick buildings of the Hespeler Furniture Co. Limited. Today, you can still see the brightly painted letters against the red bricks shouting out "Manufacturers of High Grade Furniture - Bedroom and Dining Room Furniture" like a ghost from the past. A short distance downstream from the furniture factory is a railway bridge of wooden ties and steel rails, propped up by stone and cement. The trains crossed this bridge on their route from Preston and Galt to the Hespeler station. Near this bridge there is a lovely bright yellow bench with a plaque inscribed "Precious are the memories of Nancy Ann Zvaniga, 1959-2018." There is more to come from Jack Krueger. Walter Gowing is a lifelong Cambridge resident, author and journalist who has been to 131 countries worldwide. Gowing, W. (2018). Opinion | Hespelerites gave way to Krueger's cattle drive. CambridgeTimes.ca. Retrieved 17 October 2018, from https://www.cambridgetimes.ca/opinion-story/8968123-hespelerites-gave-way-to-krueger-s-cattle-drive/

  
  

• Sources

  [S143] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1901, Hespeler (Village) D-1 Page 19. [S392] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1911, Div. 20 Pg. 24. [S2208] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1891, Section 1 Page 17. [S2208] Census - ON, Waterloo, Hespeler - 1891, Section 1 Page 16.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 19 Sep 1886 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1891 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Woolen Mill - 1901 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Butcher - 1911 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Methodist - 1911 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 1953 - Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth