Heinrich "Henry" Brickner

1831 - 1895  (63 years)

• Name	Heinrich "Henry" Brickner
  Born	20 Jun 1831	, Germany   [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Name	Henry Brickner  [6, 7]
  Occupation	1857	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  	cooper
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	cooper
  Occupation	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Cooper
  Residence	1861	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Cooper
  Residence	1871	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [3]
  	Lutheran
  Occupation	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Cooper
  Residence	1881	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  	Protestant
  Occupation	1895	Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States   [5]
  	cooper
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-34062
  Died	28 Feb 1895	Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States   [5]
  Person ID	I34062	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2024

  
  

  Family	Bertha Bachner,   b. 1833, , Prussia, Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	4 Dec 1857	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [8]
  Children	1. ? Brickner,   b. 1857,   d. 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 3 years)   2. Emma Brickner,   b. 4 Dec 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 3 Aug 1879, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 20 years)   3. Wilhelm Brickner,   b. 12 May 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 2 Sep 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 0 years)   4. Louisa Brickner,   b. 16 Jun 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 24 Oct 1926, Seattle, King, Washington, USA  (Age 65 years)   5. Bertha Brickner,   b. 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Henry Brickner,   b. 1864, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Matilda Ann Brickner,   b. 1 Jan 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1 Jun 1953, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA  (Age 86 years)   8. Augusta Brickner,   b. 1868, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. William B. Brickner,   b. 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	13 May 2024
  Family ID	F9007	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  King Street , North Side From Francis to Water Street. he ground was used by H. F. J. Jackson for stabling, etc., on his contract for building the Grand Trunk Railway through a large part of Waterloo County. Later he built his residence on this plot. The plot east of Water Street was used as a drill ground by the Berlin Volunteer Company of the Waterloo Battalion, 1864-67. They mostly drilled in the evenings and had some quite young volunteers, Jacob Stroh, 16 years, one of them. The trustees of the New Jerusalem Church bought the corner in 1869 and in 1870 erected the present Church. This had the first pipe organ in Berlin, built by Claus Maas of Preston. Haller's hat and felt-working shop. He made the first felt boots and shoes, worn largely by the farmers, in winter, in this vicinity. Open space up to Henry Brickner's house. A frame building one and one-half story high and located a little back of the street. Later a brick building was erected on the open space. At the westerly corner of Young Street Mr. Bricker built a cooperage in 1860. At the easterly corner of Young and King Streets was Wendell Brunner's blacksmith shop, a rough frame building. Behind it, on Young Street, was another frame building used as a waggon shop by Christian Huinbrecht. Vacant place and next a three story brick building, lengthwise with King Street, divided into two parts, used as stores for a short time. Later it was a paint shop and still later a warehouse for the Simpson factory across the road. The third floor of this building was the first habitat of the Berlin Militia, organized in 1864 at the time of the American Civil War. Colonel Pickering was the first drill master. He was sent from England to drill the Canadian Militia. The local company had at first no rifles and had to use Wooden substitutes for their drills. A three story brick building erected by C. Schneucker and used as a hotel. The third floor was a large hall used for a number of years, for balls and concerts. Paul Schmidt moved into the building in 1860. It was then called the Schneucker and Schmidt Hotel. A later landlord was Mr. Zinger and the name was changed to The North American Hotel. Toward the rear and just east of the Hotel was a barn and horse shed, with wide approach from King Street. A one and one-half story frame house 15 or 20 feet back from the street line with gable and veranda facing King Street, occupied by Paul Schmidt and later by his widow. A very early building one and one-half story, rough cast; the dwelling of Sam Trout, a blacksmith. A later occupant was James Godbold, son of Godbold who lived on the corner of Wellington and King Streets. Jacob, son of James, brakeman on the Grand Trunk, was killed while on top of a freight car in St. Mary's, the train passing under a low bridge which Godbold did not see as he was looking at a circus beside the track. A tailor shop was also in this building which stood originally at the corner of Foundry and King Streets. A two story brick building with gable toward King Street and occupied by Henry Gauntley. On the second floor there was a paint shop and at the rear a wagon shop. A brick building, the blacksmith shop, for many years, of Sam Trout. A vacant lot. At the Foundry St. corner a frame building, Reinhold Lang's tannery with his house, alongside, one and one-half story with frame porch. Later Mr. Lang moved his business to Charles Street, the site of the present Lang Tanning Co. plant. Jacob Y. Shantz erected the Canadian Block, three story brick, corner of King and Foundry Streets, in 1856. The front was set back from the street line and had a verandah extending to the edge of the sidewalk. There were three stores, the corner, Cole and Graf, druggists; then Wm. Young, groceries and liquors; and next H. S. Huber, general store. The old blacksmith shop was used as a warehouse by Huber. The Canadian Block while still fairly new, burned down about 1862 in the Spring. The fire started in the corner drug store, during the night. The walls remained standing after the fire was out but were considered dangerous and were pulled down by the firemen. One wall, in this operation, fell on H. S. Huber's warehouse, which had not been burned and in which he had large quantities of supplies. The firemen were blamed for not having notified Huber so that he could have removed his goods before the wall was thrown over. 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 _____________________ QUEEN STREET SOUTH, EAST SIDE. On the corner of King Street Rehscher's vaulted cellar already spoken of. An open space. A two-story rough-cast building with two-story veranda along the Queen Street front built by Martin Anthes (father of John S. Anthes) in 1835 when it was considered one of the best houses in the village. Henry Stroh purchased this house from Mr. Anthes about 1837. Jacob Stroh was born in this house. Behind it there was a garden of about an acre of land. There were 31 pine stumps on the property when Mr. Stroh took possession and these stumps had to be laboriously removed as stump- pulling machines, which came later, were not then available. The well on the lot was only nine feet deep. Henry Stroh carried on a shoe shop in his house until he entered into partnership with Carl Kranz, on King Street. In 1857, after he had dissolved partnership with Kranz, Henry Stroh built a one and one-half story frame building next to his house and used it as a shoe store. Mr. Stroh continued in this shoe business until 1863 when he went into partnership with Mr. Reinhold Lang, the tanner. The Queen Street shoe shop was changed to a dwelling. Later Mr. Vanderhart, a tailor, had his shop in this building and after him Carl Englehart had it as photographer. Henry Stroh sold his house to George King. Later Charles Ahrens owned it and had it moved to the corner of Shanley and Braun Streets about 1880. A one and one-half story frame building erected about 1837 by Jacob Kraemer, later on Frederick Street, as spoken of. Later an addition was added to the front and the building used as the local post office, with William Davidson in charge. Later George Seip purchased the building and used it as a saloon, with a bowling alley in the rear, the first bowling alley in Berlin. William Jaffray lived in the house for a time and later William Knell, son-in-law of Mr. Seip. A one and one-half story frame building, originally a cooper shop, later the dwelling of Mr. Seip, after he sold the other building. In 1860 he built a brewery, known as Seip's brewery. Under the whole building he had a vaulted cellar built of field stone. Power for the brewery was supplied by a horse-power contained in an attached shed, shelter for the horses. Seip had a high reputation for good beer. He at first made his own malt, but later purchased it. After George Seip's death his son Louis continued the business until about 1880. The building was finally torn down to make room for the present auditorium. The cooper shop, a small one story building, with brick chimney such as coopers used to heat staves for their barrel making, operated by Henry Brickner who later had his shop at the corner of Young and King Streets. Later Adam Stein had the Queen Street cooper shop. The Berlin coopers were experts in the making of what was called tight-wear,that is water-tight barrels, in large tuns which they made for the brewers. A very early building, occupied by John Peters, a cabinet maker in Hoffman's factory, about 1860. The building had an outside stairway at the back. Peters was a bird lover and expert in trapping native song birds, mocking birds, cat birds, finches, etc., which he hung under his veranda roof in public display. On the corner of Church Street a frame house occupied by Mr. Knechtel, a weaver, about 1842-1850. Knechtel moved to a farm in Mannheim where later he was injured in the spine by a falling tree to such an extent that he was bedfast for fourteen or fifteen years. He lived to about 1871. Conrad Doering occupied the Queen Street house for a time. He also was a weaver and made coverlets, etc. The house was torn down to make room for the present one of brick built by Dr. Clemens and later occupied by the late Dr. Walters. Church Street. On the south side St. Paul's Lutheran Church. A one and one-half story unpainted frame building with gable towards the street, the dwelling, about 1860, of John Fleischauer, a laborer, a native of Hessen, Germany. A one and one-half story house occupied by E. Kern, cabinet maker, about 1860 and later by John Ansted. A vacant lot. George Street. Joseph Schneider originally owned all the land between George Street and Mill Street, mostly woods at that time, and extending to Benton and Eby Streets. 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

  [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div 2 Pg 14. [S158] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1881, Div. 2 Pg. 44. [S229] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1871, Div. 1, Pg. 58. [S123] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1861, Div. 2 Page 14. [S1798] Vit - Wisconsin - Wisconsin Deaths and Burials, 1835-1968, accessed 6 Apr 2012), Death Record of Henry Brickner; ndexing Project (Batch) Number: B06552-2 System Origin: Wisconsin-EASy Source Film Number: 1310324 Reference Number: cn 01376. Henry Brickner, d. 28 FEb 1895 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, b. 20 Jun 1831 Ger. cooper married Bertha Brickner [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library, #11 pg 166. Wilhelm Brickner d 2 Sep 1860, aged 3 1/2 months son of H. Brickner of Berlin [S2] Church Records - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian). Emma Tuletzga (Tochter von Brueckner) d. 3 Aug 1879, aged 20y, 8m, 1 Petr. 24. 25. [S6] Church Records - ON, Waterloo - Bindeman, F. W. - Card Index Kitchener Public Library. Henry Brickner, cooper of Berlin married 4 Dec 1857 Waterloo Twp. by banns to Bertha Bachner of Berlin, witnesses: Paul Schmitt of Berlin, Dorothea Gaukel

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 20 Jun 1831 - , Germany Occupation - cooper - 1857 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 4 Dec 1857 - Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - cooper - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Cooper - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1861 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Cooper - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Lutheran - 1871 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - Cooper - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Protestant - 1881 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Occupation - cooper - 1895 - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Died - 28 Feb 1895 - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States  = Link to Google Earth