John Eby^{[1, 2, 3]}

1814 - 1899  (84 years)

• Name	John Eby
  Born	7 Aug 1814	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
  Gender	Male
  Historic Building	1838	362 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [13]
  	The Eby-Dunham home was constructed 1838-1840 by John Eby. It is a frame construction and in 1978 was considered to be in good condition. It was much altered in 1887. __________________ John, bought the Poor House farm. The son erected a home in Frederick Street, opposite the House of Refuge. It was made of foot-wide planks, laid one atop the other. In 1837 he married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Bricker, who played a prominent past in the Beasley mortgage snag.1a 1aA History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937
  Med. Note	For the last few years of his life he was completely blind.
  Residence	1838	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [14]
  Occupation	1852	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [15]
  	farmer
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Farmer
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Farmer
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Farmer
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  	Gentleman
  Residence	1891	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [11]
  	Mennonite
  Eby ID Number	00031-2760
  Died	6 Mar 1899	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [9, 12, 16, 17]
  	Cause: old age
  Buried	First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12, 16]
  Person ID	I21980	Generations
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	Deacon Samuel Eby,   b. 27 Aug 1785, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 25 Jan 1844  (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Break,   b. 13 Aug 1789, , Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 28 Nov 1872, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 83 years)
  Married	25 Dec 1808  [18]
  Family ID	F4299	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Rebecca Bricker,   b. 22 Sep 1819, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 May 1872, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 52 years)
  Married	7 Nov 1837	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 3, 19]
  Children	1. Dr. Aaron Eby,   b. 14 Aug 1838, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 5 Jul 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 60 years)   2. Sophia Eby,   b. 10 Jun 1840, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Apr 1868, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 27 years)   3. Veronica Eby,   b. 25 Mar 1842, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Moses Eby,   b. 2 Oct 1844, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Aug 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 22 years)   5. S. Groff,   b. 1846, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Elizabeth Eby,   b. 23 Oct 1846, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 28 Jul 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)   7. Magdelena "Maggie" Eby,   b. 19 Apr 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 7 Feb 1929, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 77 years)   8. Susannah Eby,   b. 22 Sep 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 18 Jul 1939, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 80 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F3540	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Nancy Groff,   b. 5 Oct 1822, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania ,   d. 8 Nov 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 75 years)
  Married	29 Jan 1880  [2, 11]
  Children	1. Susanna Eby,   b. 1858, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F1303	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John Eby, "the second son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Brech) Eby, was born August 7th, 1814. On November 7th, 1837, he was married to Rebecca Bricker who was born September 22nd, 1819, and died May 11th, 1872. They resided on the farm now known as the "Poor House Farm", on which was built, in 1869, by the County Council of the County of Waterloo, the House of Industry and Refuge. The farm is directly east of Berlin, about ten minutes' walk from the Court House. Mr. Eby was married a second time to Nancy Groff (widow), and is now comfortably located in the town of Berlin, Ontario. Of late years, however, he has been so unfortunate as to be totally deprived of his eyesight. He has a family of seven children" 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.]. ________________________ On the 6th of March, 1899, in Berlin, Ont., of the infirmities of old age, John Eby, in the 84th year of his age. He was born Aug. 7th, 1814; was married to Rebecca Bricker, Nov. 7th, 1837. She died May 11th, 1872. To this union were born seven children, of whom four survive. After the death of his first wife deceased was married to Nancy Groff. For a number of years previous and up to his death deceased was completely blind. Buried on the 9th in the C. Eby cemetery. The Herald of Truth , Vol. XXXVI, No. 7, April 1, 1899 - pages 108-110 ____________________________ John, bought the Poor House farm. The son erected a home in Frederick Street, opposite the House of Refuge. It was made of foot-wide planks, laid one atop the other. In 1837 he married Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Bricker, who played a prominent past in the Beasley mortgage snag. North Waterloo is indebted to the Mennonites for the introduction of the apple-tree and apple-butter. John Eby planted a large orchard and owned a cider-mill. Maryborough farmers drove down and bought wagon-loads of apples from him. The buyers came in one day, stayed over night, and started off the next morning. Mr. and Mrs. John Eby were the parents of two sons and four daughters. The youngest daughter, Susanna, of 178 Frederick Street, was born in the farm house in 1858. She remembers seeing her mother spinning flax and wool, and of twisting the threads for her. The girls were taught how to bake and sew; and all the children to work and save. Miss Eby often saw the pleasure wagon in which Samuel Bricker brought over the mass of silver to pay for the Mennonite purchase. Her father built a home (which is still in use) [1937], for his widowed mother, on the east side of Frederick Street, at the Five Points. In 1868 her father sold the County the Poor House farm, retaining only his home and five acres of land. His second youngest child was daughter named Madeline (1851-1929). She was married to Martin Dunham in 1880. Eight years later her father sold to Mr. Dunham the five acres mentioned and moved farther into town. Later on Mr. Dunham subdivided his purchase and sold it for building lots The city renamed part of East Avenue and La Grange Street, Dunham Avenue, in 1933, in honor of this family. A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pg 18 _________________________ Frederick Street, West Side. On the site in front of the present Fire Hall, on the street line next to the St. Nicholas hotel, an unpainted frame shed, with an enclosed part at one end where the fireman's hook and ladder truck was kept. In case of fire this truck was generally rushed out by hand, a long rope attached to the pole and a double line of men. After the fire was out they would hire a team to draw the truck back. An open space. A small dark yellow frame school building erected in 1834 and later used to store the fire engine. A wood shed later used as a two-cell lock-up for the village, 1857-60, and probably a little later. Behind the school house stood an undenominational church erected in 1842. The church had a steeple with a railing around it. About ten years later the building was used for a school room, called the Advanced School. In 1856 it was used for the village council and known as the Town Hall. In 1874 it was used as an engine house, and so continued until the building known as the Market House was built in 1869. After 1874 it was again used as an engine house until the present Fire Hall was built on its site. A two-story brick building with gable toward Frederick Street and a second story porch along the front erected by Justus Werner about 1850, or 51, still standing. Werner had a waggon shop on the first floor and lived with his family on the second. Later a Mr. Foreman bought the building and had a shoe shop on the first floor for a number of years. A brick house later occupied by Dr. Mylius when he moved there from his King Street house. A frame building the house of Henry Knell, the jeweller, later occupied by Mathias Riener, a tailor, who came from Vienna, Austria, and moved here from Breslau. one-story red frame building a little back of the street line with gable toward Frederick Street, erected about 1838, occupied by Peter Rebscher Senior, the brewer's father. A one and one-half story frame building, not painted, lengthwise with Frederick Street with ground floor a few steps above the sidewalk, occupied by Mrs. Krug, a widow, and next to it her barn. A vacant space to Weber Street. The Court House was built in 1852, the registry office later, and still later the present Judge's chambers. Vacant space on Ahrens Street. On the northerly corner of Ahrens a 1 ½ story brick dwelling parallel with Frederick Street built and occupied by Philip Reichert, a carpenter. His father was a pedler, vending tinware and china, rags and produce. A 1 1/2 story frame building with a small veranda over the front door, the dwelling of Otto Fleischauer, still standing and now on the corner of Otto Street. Intersection of Lancaster, Frederick and Ellen Sts., long known as the five points. Next, on Frederick Street a double, white frame weather board dwelling, half occupied by Henry Otterbein, the other half by Balzar Schmalz. Next, the farm house of John Eby with his dwelling directly opposite the House of Refuge. The county bought most of Eby's farm for this latter institution. 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

  [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..., 611. [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..., 723. [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..., 332. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div 13, Page 4. [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..., 295. [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 16. John EBY Farmer Birthplace: Canada Age 38 Mennonite b. 7-Aug Rebeca EBY Birthplace: Canada Age 33 Mennonite b. 22-Sep Aron EBY Labourer Birthplace: Canada F. Age 14 Mennonite b. 14-Aug Moses EBY Birthplace: Canada F. Age 13 Mennonite b. 2? October Sophia EBY Birthplace: Canada F. Age 12 Mennonite b. 10-Jun Veronica EBY Birthplace: Canada F. Age 10 Mennonite b. 25-Mar Elisabetha EBY Birthplace: Canada F. Age 6 Mennonite b. 25-Oct Magdelena EBY Birthplace: Canada F. Age 1 Mennonite b. 19-Apr [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 16 May 1871. 11 May 1872 in Berlin, née Bricker, wife of John, 57 yrs, 7 mths, and a few days. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div 1 Page 58. [S32] News - Herald of Truth, April 1, 1899 - Obituary of John Eby. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 1 Page 1. [S1592] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1891, Sec. 5 Page 64. [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19017021/john-eby. [S872] Book - Historic Building Inventory - Kitchener. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 23 Aug 1838:36. 14 Aug 1838 The family of John Eby, son of Samuel Eby, (oldest), by Berlin, was blessed with a son [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 16. [S47] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - First Mennonite CC#4507 Internet link First Mennonite Cemetery online. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 16 May 1871. 11 May 1872 in Berlin, née Bricker, wife of John, 57 yrs, 7 mths, and a few days. date differs from cemetery stone [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..., 610. [S9] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Canada Museum und Allgemeine Zeitung (1835-1840), 7 Nov 1837:47. 5 Nov 1837 Rev Bindemann m. John Eby to Miss Rebecca Bruecker, both of Waterloo.

  
  

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  Born - 7 Aug 1814 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 7 Nov 1837 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Historic Building - 1838 - 362 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - 1838 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - farmer - 1852 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Farmer - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Gentleman - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1891 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - Cause: old age - 6 Mar 1899 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth