Peter Jacob Heins^[1]

1826 - 1903  (77 years)

• Name	Peter Jacob Heins
  Born	22 Mar 1826	Schieswig, , Germany   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Business	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Bowman and Heins
  Immigration	1851	, Germany   [3]
  Residence	1853	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Merchant
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [6]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	--
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [5]
  	Lutheran
  Residence	1873	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9]
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Traveler
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Florist
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [7]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1901	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	commercial traveller
  Eby ID Number	00002-568.1
  Died	26 May 1903	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Cause: heart failure (a few days)
  Person ID	I8669	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Veronica "Frances" Bauman,   b. 12 Mar 1832, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Sep 1904, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 72 years)
  Married	3 Dec 1853	Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 8]
  Children	1. Charles Henry S. "Charlie" Heins,   b. Jun 1854, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 23 Sep 1916, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 62 years)   2. Stella Louisa Heins,   b. 1856, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Dec 1866, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 10 years)   3. Lorena Caecilia Martha Heins,   b. 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Norma Heins,   b. 1862, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. Norman F. Heins,   b. 1863, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Judith E. Heins,   b. 1866, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Uva Cynthia Floret Heins,   b. 7 Sep 1873, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2024
  Family ID	F2538	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Peter Jacob Heins tsomers72 originally shared this on 28 Jun 2008 to Ancestry Public Member Trees

  
  

• Notes

  King Street , North Side Foundry Street (now Ontario Street). Jacob and John Hoffman, brothers, who came from Pennsylvania, erected a furniture factory on the corner about 1840. It was a two story frame building extending along King St., had 25 to 30 employees and a 15 h.p. engine brought from Buffalo. Eby's history gives John Hoffman as having come from Pennsylvania in 1825; Jacob, almost two years older, seems to have come before. They both worked at carpentry, etc., for a number of years before starting the factory in which enterprise they were assisted by Benjamin Eby. On the ridge of the factory roof there was a belfry with the only larger bell in Berlin. This bell served not only the factory but the village as well, pinging at 7 in the morning, at 12, at 1 and at 6 o'clock in the evening. It was used also as a fire bell and was tolled for funerals. By some prank or spite the bell was stolen in 1850 before there was a night watchman at the factory, and disappeared for two or three years. Eventually it was found in a well at the comer of Duke and College Streets, put back in place on the Hoffman factory and later was taken to a belfry on the Simpson factory spoken of, where it was used until this factory was discontinued. It was then taken to the pavilion in Victoria Park and was melted down when the pavilion was destroyed by fire. Behind the Hoffman factory there was a pond, about three feet deep, fed by a spring, the water being used for the factory boiler, etc. About 1860 a frame building, used by the firm for a warehouse, covered the site of the spring. Further back there was a saw mill, also a planing mill, the first of its kind in Berlin. A two story frame building extending along Foundry Street was later added to the factory and used as a turning shop. At the rear of this building was the factory boiler house. Next to the factory on King Street there was a three story brick building. The ground floor was used as a store, called the Berlin Warehouse. Jacob Hoffman, who by this time was alone in the business, John having gone to Waterloo, announced himself as dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, china, glassware, crockery, and paint and oils and manufacturer of all kinds of furniture, also sash doors, etc., selling low for cash. An overhead passage way on a bridge connected the second stories of the factory and brick building. Over the store was the paint shop and in the rear a warehouse. Hoffman's store was later occupied by William Schmidt, son of Rev. Wm. Schmidt, an early minister of the Evangelical Church. Schmidt had a dry goods store only, known as the Golden Lion store because of a large gilt lion over the entrance. Isaac Hoffman, son of Jacob, carried on the factory and store for several years; later John S. Anthes was in possession while Hoffman went to Waterloo and continued the furniture business there with Adam Klippert and Martin Wegenast as partners. Jacob and John Hoffman erected a number of houses in Berlin. Jacob Hoffman was very stout, weighing over 300 pounds. He was a member of the Evangelical Church. For a time he served on the village council. He resided on Foundry Street in the rear of the Canadian Block in a square, hip roof, two story, frame house, until it was destroyed by fire, when he moved to the west side of Foundry Street, south, where now is the Robe & Clothing Co. building. Here he had a one and one-half story frame house with a large two story addition at the rear where were lodged apprentices and other factory employees. There was a small portico over the front door and a porch extending along the northerly side of the house. Next to the Hoffman warehouse there was a saloon and restaurant occupied by a Mr. Unger. He served, among other things, oysters which came in small wooden, 1-gal. kegs. Adjoining Hoffman's store there was the tailor shop of H. J. Nahrgang, later occupied by Henry Glebe, an early band master; next a store differently occupied at various times and next the shoe store of Wm. Niehaus. A three story brick building occupied by Wm. Young as a grocery. Mr. Young eventually went to the Canadian Block and the store was used for various purposes, among them auction sales in the evening. Here there was sold the first white crockery offered in Berlin. Later the building was occupied by the Berliner Journal. A one and one-half story frame building with gable toward King St. and a veranda, occupied by Mr. Fuchs, a tailor and shoemaker, whose wife assisted her husband as expert in repairing clocks. The family lived in the building. About 1865 the frame building was moved to the rear and Fuchs' block erected on the street. The ground floor had three stores, the west one occupied by Mr. Fuchs, the middle by John Kayser, dry goods merchant, and the third one by Tindall Simpson and Sons, shoemakers and tailors. The first building on part of the Fuchs' block site was a rough frame structure used by one Susand, colored, who was the first barber in Berlin. A two story brick building with gable facing King Street, occupied by Christian Garman, harness maker, who later moved to New Hamburg and started a tannery. This building was later occupied by Levi Gaukel, son of Frederick Gaukel, after his father's death. He had a small hotel known as The Red Lion. In 1860 Urban Prinzer succeeded Gaukel and continued the hotel for a short time. A two and one-half story brick building with gable facing King St. was occupied by Levi Gaukel, as a butcher shop after he gave up the hotel next door. Jacob Gaukel was associated with Levi. Later George Debus occupied this shop. A building with gable and porch facing King Street, later occupied by George DeBus as a barber shop. On the corner of King and Queen Streets there was first a driving shed for the Gaukel hotel opposite, until the block was erected in 1860. This was a three story brick building lengthwise with King Street. Joseph Bowman the noted violinist occupied the third floor of this building. Half of the ground floor of the building was occupied by Henry B. Bowman with a partner Heins as general dry goods store. This was on the corner. The other half was a brick store occupied by Cole and Graf, druggists, and later by Wm. Bowman in the same business. On the site of the Bowman block is the handsome Bank building built by the Merchants Bank and now occupied by the Bank of Montreal. 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 _______ PETER JACOB HEINES DIES AT A RIPE AGE. Another of Berlin's oldest residents passed from this life to the Great Beyond on Tuesday afternoon in the person of Peter Jacob Heins, who has been a well-known resident of the town for nearly 60 years. The deceased had been travelling up to a week ago, and when in Brantford in Monday week he took a street for Paris, not knowing that the line was not quite completed. When about two miles from Paris he was informed he would have to walk the remainder of the distance, which he did carrying a heavy valise with with him. While walking he was sun struck, and after lying on the ground for a time he made is way as best he could to a Paris hotel where medical aid was secured Still feeling unwell the next morning be decided to return home, reaching Berlin on Tuesday afternoon He gradually weaken ....when he passed away. Mr. Heines was born in Gluckstadt near Hamburg, Germany, a little over 78 years ago, and when 11 years of age came to this country and a year or two after settled in Berlin. After his marriage about 52 years ago he erected a house on the corner of Duke and Foundry streets and for some years his residence was the only one in this central section of the town. The deceased was an enthusiastic florist throughout his lifetime, and was always in his happiest when he was arranging his rose bushes, his favorite flower, and many are the rose bushes throughout the Twin City that first sprouted under the care of Mr. Heines. The deceased was also a well-known taxidermist and many beautiful specimens of his work are to be seen at his late residence, and other homes in Berlin. Mr Heines has for years kept a private park the West Ward near Victoria Park, upon which he expended considerable money, and in which he took interest. Being exceedingly hale and. vigorous, considering his age, he was always busy and during the last few days he has been travelling for a Toronto belting firms, and met with gratifying success. The deceased was a genial, hard-working, and courteous gentleman, and his demise will be regretted by all his acquaintances Besides his widow, he leaves a family of two sons and three daughters vis, Charles, of Berlin, Norman of Rochester, Mrs. Fetzer of Berlin, Mrs. C. Falkner, Saskatoon, Sask and Mrs A. Parker, Muskegon, Mich The funeral which will be private, will be held on Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The Chronicle Telegraph (190101), 28 May 1903, p. 4 ___________ Heins' First Skating Rink Better Than The "57" (By J. P. Jaffray) With his skating rink equipped ot only with a fine sheet of ice but also with a neat coffee room Peter J. Heins was for several winters the town's chief amusement caterer in the early seventies. The old Drill Shed on the corner of King End Water streets (subsequently removed to Woodside Park) served as his rink, to which he devoted unusual attention, scarcely ever falling to for excellent ice for his patrons. The holding of carnivals was one means he adopted to make it a paying enterprise. Fortunately for him the town contained a lot of young fellows who revelled in that sort of thing: for days and nights planning and making costumes suitable for wild Irishmen, portly Dutchmen, the Dockyard Negro and the "Colored Gentleman." The young ladies were also loyal to the idea, supplying Queens, Fairies, Dancing Girls and some stage characters. And some of those young women, were most graceful figures on the ice, Miss Nellie Mackie, known to the present generation as Mrs. (Dr.) H. G. Lackner, was one, and Miss Bella Jackson, the Mrs. F. Hayward of today, was another. Among the married women who were skillful on the blades were Mrs. (Dr.) D. S. Bowlby and Mrs. Jacob Oberholtzer, nee Miss Vancamp. The young fellows put in a lot of time learning the Dutch Role. the Lockstitch, the Grapevine, the Eights, etc. It was in this rink that Charley Heins acquired the art of skating on stilts, an art that brought him in future years many engagements, as a star performer in Canada and the United States. P. J. Heins having acquired a taste for public entertaining acquired the old Cricket Ground (now Heins ave.) and ambitiously set about making of it a Heins Park that would be the talk of the country-side. It was he the phrase maker would say a "too previous" venture. Newspaper unknown

  
  

• 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..., 175. [S116] Vit - ON - Death Registration. Peter J. Heins, d. 26 May 1903 Berlin, aged 76y, born Germany cause: heart failure (a few day) [S137] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1901, a-2 pg 2. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div. 2 Pg. 41. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 48. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 2 Page 11. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Section 2 Page 32. [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, 8 Dec 1853 Pg 49. BAUMANN, Veronica married 2 Dec 1853 In Galt, Veronica BAUMAN, daughter of Heinrich Bauman, to P.G. HEINZ of Berlin. minister Rev. F. Berry [S57] Vit - ON - Birth Registration. Uva Cynthia Floret Heins Born: 15 Mar 1873 County: Waterloo Father: Peter Jacob Heins Mother: Veronica Bowman

  
  

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  Business - Bowman and Heins - - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Immigration - 1851 - , Germany Residence - 1853 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 3 Dec 1853 - Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Merchant - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - -- - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1873 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Traveler - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Florist - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - commercial traveller - 1901 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: heart failure (a few days) - 26 May 1903 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth