Dr. Aaron Eby^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}

1838 - 1899  (60 years)

• Name	Aaron Eby
  Prefix	Dr.
  Born	14 Aug 1838	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
  Gender	Male
  FindAGrave	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9612536
  Interesting	medical, doctor, newspaper
  Occupation	Sebringville, Ellice Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada
  	Doctor
  Occupation	1861	Absent   [10]
  	Student
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [10]
  	Mennonite
  Occupation	1864	Sebastopol, South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario
  	Doctor
  Residence	1864	Sebastopol, South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario   [11]
  Occupation	1866	New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Doctor
  Occupation	1874	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  	Doctor
  Occupation	1878	Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada
  	newspaper editor
  Occupation	1881	Sebastopol, South Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario
  	Doctor
  Eby ID Number	00031-2761
  Died	5 Jul 1899	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12]
  Buried	First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [12]
  Person ID	I21984	Generations
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2024

  
  

  Father	John Eby,   b. 7 Aug 1814, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 6 Mar 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	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, 13]
  Family ID	F3540	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Matilda Croft Bowers,   b. 1 Apr 1844, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 8 Jul 1923, Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States  (Age 79 years)
  Married	7 Jun 1864	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 5, 11, 14, 15]
  Children	1. Rose Eby,   b. 17 May 1865, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 4 Dec 1885, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)   2. Elizabeth Eby Eby,   b. 21 Sep 1866, Sebringville, Ellice Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Dec 1906  (Age 40 years)   3. Dr. John Robert "Robert Eby,   b. 1 Nov 1867, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 27 Oct 1944, Elko, Elko, Nevada, United States  (Age 76 years)   4. Minnie Dorothy "Dorothea" Eby,   b. 18 Jan 1871, Sebringville, Ellice Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 16 Aug 1945  (Age 74 years)   5. Cyrus Bowers Eby,   b. 9 Jan 1873, Sebringville, Ellice Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 20 Jan 1934, Forestville, Fillmore, Minnesota, United States  (Age 61 years)   6. Professor Frederick Eby,   b. 26 Oct 1874, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 11 Feb 1968, Austin, Travis, Texas, United States  (Age 93 years)   7. Grace Darling Eby,   b. 10 Aug 1878, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. 26 Jun 1947  (Age 68 years)
  Last Modified	26 Jun 2024
  Family ID	F4283	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Aaron Eby, "the eldest of the family, was born August 14th, 1838, and is married to Matilda Bowers. He is a doctor and has been very successful in his practice up to the present. He is located in Sebringville, Ontario, and has had a family of seven children, namely: Rose, who died at the age of 21, Elizabeth, Robert, Minnie, Cyrus, Frederick, and Grace." 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.]. ___________________ Queen Street North, East Side. Huber and Ahrens occupied the corner as a store and had a warehouse at the rear. The first section of the American Block was built in 1862. It contained a hotel with entrance on Queen Street and stores on the King Street front. A meat shop occupied by one Schaefer and later by Crozier. This building was later occupied by Von Ebenau, a German toy dealer. He also built some sidewalks for the village in 1857. A long two story frame building originally used by C. Ahrens as a barn and later by John Jacob Woelfle, a plough maker, who had a shop at one end and lived in the rest of the building. He had worked in the foundry on Foundry St. and after this shut down started his own shop. The building was later occupied by Rev. Jacob Wagner, who died there. In 1858 a two story frame building was erected by Louis Breithaupt as his office and leather store. This was the first building on this site. A 1 1/2 story dwelling with veranda lengthwise with Queen St. occupied by jailer Walden. Dr. Whiting later lived in this building for a time. A small house occupied by Mrs. Harbin, (widow of Rev. Harbin who was Swedenborgian minister in Berlin) and her sister, Mrs. Wheeler. A garden owned by Thomas Sparrow, with balsam trees along the street, adjoining the Sparrow's two story house with gable toward Queen St. and long veranda. Sparrow later moved to Galt. A two story plaster building painted red with ground floor considerably above the sidewalk level and steps leading up to it, occupied by the Commercial Bank. St. Peter's Church, formerly a vacant lot belonging to Mrs. Krug. The lot extended to Weber St. and to Mrs. Krug's house on Frederick St. This site was at one time favorably considered for the Central School, but it was decided that the ground would not be large enough. The present parsonage of St. Peter's Church was built by Dr. Eby, a native of Berlin, who had been living in Sebringville. He was the oldest son of John Eby spoken of as on Frederick Street. He married a daughter of Cyrus Bowers. Weber Street. County Buildings. Jail and Jailer's residence with a barn at the rear. The jail was built some time after the Court House, about 1860. Ahrens Street. One and a half story frame building painted red, the dwelling of Charles Roos, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory. Frame building, the house of Mr. Stuebing, later occupied by Charles Peterson. Small dwelling. Street. A brick yard operated by Nicholas Zieger who made puddled brick by hand. Later the brick yard belonged to John Dauberger whose house, a red frame building, was on the corner of Ellen and Queen. 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 _______________ Eby, AARON was a native son. Ezra Eby's Biographical History of Waterloo Township says that he was the eldest son of John Eby (who resided on the Poor House Farm, Berlin), was born August 14, 1838 and was married to Matilda Bowers, a daughter of Cyrus Bowers of Berlin. He was a graduate of the medical faculty of the University of Toronto, 1864. Following his graduation his locations were reported as follows: May 12, 1864 - Sebastapol. February 2, 1865 to April 5, 1866. New Hamburg, where his office was near the Mill. From there to Sebringville until September 3, 1874 when he moved to Berlin where his office was over the Journal Printery. His card of January 7, 1875 showed an association between Eby and J. A. Whiting but by April 22 his card mentions his name alone. An item appeared in the Dumfries Reformer July 21, 1875 which said: "Dr. Eby, of Berlin, Ont. has patented a very useful and ingenious machine for collecting potato-bugs from the growing vine." On December 2, 1875 his last card appeared, and on December 23rd. was an article regarding the purchase of Die Glocke of Walkerton by Eby and John A. Rittinger. After June 13, 1878 Eby published the Walkerton Telescope, while Rittinger published Die Glocke. In 1881 he returned to Sebringville to practise. After developing palsy following a severe nervous disease in 1885, he gave up his practice, and ran a drug store until shortly before leaving Sebringville. In 1896 he returned to Berlin where he died at his residence on Maynard St. at the corner of Margaret Avenue. His obituary in the Berlin Telegraph on July 13, 1899 referred to him as one of the finest types of a generation. . „He was a man of culture, a voluminous reader of good intellect, who always took a deep interest in current events and a lifelong Reformer." In addition to his widow he was survived by six children, most of whom were in the United States. Dr. Alexander D. Campbell, Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925

  
  

• 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..., 291. [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. [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 10 Dec 1885. 05 Dec 1885 Rosa Eby, daughter of Dr. Aaron Eby in Sebringville, died in Toronto,where she was studying medical science, at the age of 20 years [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 9 Jun 1864. Married By Rev. Kaessmann, in the home of the bride's father Cyrus Bowers, Esq., Dr. Aaron Eby of Sebastopol, Perth County was married to Mathilda Bowers of Waterloo Township. [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. [S47] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - First Mennonite CC#4507 Internet link First Mennonite Cemetery online. Aaron Eby / born at Berlin / Aug.14, 1838 / died / July 5, 1899 / Rock of ages cleft for me / let me hide myself in Thee [S131] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo Twp. - 1851, Div 4 Pg 16. Aron EBY Labourer Birthplace: Canada F. Age 14 Mennonite b. 14-Aug [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 [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 1 Page 1. [S5] Vit - - ON, Waterloo - 1858-1869 Marriage Register. Aaron Eby aged 26 res Sebastopol, Perth Co., born Berlin, C. W. son of John and Rebecca married 7 Jun 1864 to Matilda C. Bowers aged 20 res Waterloo born Waterloo daughter of Cyrus and Elizabeth. [S47] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - First Mennonite CC#4507 Internet link First Mennonite Cemetery online. [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. [S20] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berlin Telegraph (title varies: Berlin Telegraph, Berlin Daily Telegraph) (1853-1922), 10 Jun 1864. "Eby - Bowers: In Waterloo Township, at the residence of the Bride's Father, "Sweet Briar Farm" on the 7th inst., by the Rev. Mr. Knessman, of Berlin, Dr. Aaron Eby, of Sebastopol, County of Perth, to Matilda, eldest daughter of Cyrus Bowers, Esq." [S7] News - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Berliner Journal (1859-1917), 09 Jun 1864. 07 Jun 1864 By Rev. Kaessmann, in the home of the bride's father Cyrus Bowers, Esq., Dr. Aaron Eby of Sebastopol, Perth County was married to Mathilda Bowers of Waterloo Township.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 14 Aug 1838 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Doctor - - Sebringville, Ellice Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada Residence - Mennonite - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 7 Jun 1864 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Doctor - 1866 - New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Doctor - 1874 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - newspaper editor - 1878 - Walkerton, Brant Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada Died - 5 Jul 1899 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth