Levi Henry Erb

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00032-2825
• Occupation: 1861, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mennonite
• Occupation: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Distiller

Notes:

Levi Erb, "the fifth son, was born October 23rd, 1842. He is married to Mary Ann Hay. They reside in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he is engaged in the shops of the City Water Works. They have no family."


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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

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Memorable Manitobans:

Levi Henry Erb (1842-1933), Distiller.

Born at Preston, Ontario on 23 October 1842, he married Mary Ann Hay (?-1929) in 1865. They had a daughter, Lelia May Erb (wife of F. J. C. Cox). He came to Winnipeg in 1873, over the Dawson Trail, and established Radiger & Erb, the first distillery in the city, in partnership with Edward Radiger, on a site that would later be occupied by Ogilvie Flour Mills. When the building was completed the next year, he sent for his family from Ontario. The business flourished, making various types of whiskey, until 1880 when the price of wheat rose markedly and they could not compete against outside liquor suppliers. He then went to work in the warehouse of A. G. B. Bannatyne, later working successively for the Hudson's Bay Company, the A. MacDonald wholesale store, the J. H. Ashdown Hardware Company, Watrous Engine Works, and the Merrick-Anderson Company
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He died at Winnipeg on 10 July 1933 and was buried in St. John's Cemetery.

Goldsborough, G. (2019). Memorable Manitobans: Levi Henry Erb (1842-1933). Mhs.mb.ca. Retrieved 7 June 2019, from https://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/erb_lh.shtml

Levi married Mary Ann Hayes 5 Jun 1864, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Mary was born 25 Aug 1848, , England; died 27 Aug 1927, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; was buried , St. Johns Cathedral Cemetery, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-71493
• Residence: 1916, Anderson Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba