Oliver Clemens

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21241230
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1757
• Occupation: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Business: 1878, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; McNally, Clemens & Co.

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Oliver Clemens, "was born April 20th, 1830. In his younger days he resided on a farm situated on the township-line between Waterloo and Wilmot Townships, near Trussler's Sawmill. From there he moved to Blair on the old 'Benjamin Bowman Farm'. At present he resides in the town of Galt. He was married , May 25th 1852, to Elizabeth Hellrigel who was born July 26th 1831. To them were born six 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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.].

Business:
In the year 1859 the grist mill was sold to Henry Aaron Bechtel who in the year 1875 sold it to Henry McNally, Angus McNally, Oliver Clemens and Moses Eschelman. This group converted the building into a woollen mill, and operated it for many years. A number of years later the machinery was sold to a North Bay concern. This building is at present utilized as an ice house, owned by F. I. Willson.

Waterloo Historical Society 1941, 29th Annual Report

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The first milling venture included a saw mill and grist mill,* built on the Blair-Galt Road by Daniel and Jacob Erb. Erected in 1808, it is now used as an ice house by Ford Willson of Preston. In 1859 the property was sold to Henry Aaron Bechtel who lived on the farm now owned by Jim Johannes. Here stands one of the oldest houses in the district. According to a record in the masonry it was built by the Bechtels in 1817. In 1875 the mill was transferred to Henry McNally, Angus McNally, Oliver Clemens and Moses Eschelman. This group converted the building into a woollen mill and continued in business until the manager, Angus McNally, died in April, 1903. Following that, a North Bay concern bought the establishment, then' moved all the machinery away. As a boy the writer had the pleasure of working in that woollen mill. I shall never forget the water wheel which ran all the machinery. It had timbers like those in a barn, and the steel axle upon which it was built weighed one and one-half tons. Farmers brought their w'ool to the mill and bought blankets, cloth, yarn and batting.

Waterloo Historical Society 1954

Oliver married Elizabeth Helrigel 25 May 1852, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Johann Georg "George" Hellrigle and Barbara Scherer) was born 26 Jul 1831, Katzweiler, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; was christened 28 Jul 1831, Katzweiler, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died 3 Feb 1913, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-269817

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1758

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-269828

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• Name: Lena Clemens
• Name: Magdalena "Lena" Eschleman
• Name: Magdalena "Lena" Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1759
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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Magdaline Clemens, "was born March 25th, 1855. She was first married to Joseph Eshelman and after his decease to Joseph Stauffer. They reside in the town of Galt. She had one son with her first husband named VIII Oliver (dead), and with the second husband she has twin boys named VIII Clive and VIII Claude."

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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Mrs. Joseph Stauffer-born Lena Clemens, Mar 25 1855 Mannheim, Waterloo Co. ON, daughter of Oliver and Elizabeth Clemens, married 1882 to Joseph Stauffer, died Feb 9 1925, buried Feb 11 1925 Mausoleum, Mountainview Cemetery, Galt ON. Survived by husband and children: Clive B., Claud C., Joseph S., and Mrs. Alex Logan. Husband presented Wesley Church with silver communion set in her memory, children presented walnut communion table^.

Christian Guardian Newspaper, May 20, 1925

Magdalena — Joseph Eschleman. Joseph (son of Moses B. Eschleman and Susannah Stauffer) was born 8 Jun 1850, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Jun 1878, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Magdalena — Joseph B. Stauffer. Joseph (son of Joseph B. Stauffer and Nancy Bowman) was born 9 Aug 1852, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Feb 1936, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1760
• Residence: 1861, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

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George Clemens, M. D., "was born March 20th 1857. When a young man he commenced the study of medicine and attended the Toronto Trinity College for four full terms and graduated some twelve years ago. After getting his degree he immediately followed his profession in Berlin. About ten years ago he moved to Port Perry where he has a very extensive practice. He is married to Emma, eldest daughter of Levi VanCamp, dentist, of Berlin. Their family consists of two 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.].

George married Emma Van Camp 31 Aug 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Emma (daughter of Dr. Lewis Van Camp and Susan Sarah Haight) was born 11 Jun 1856, Bowmanville, Darlington Twp., Durham Co., Ontario; died 9 Dec 1913, , York Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1761

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19372867
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1762
• Occupation: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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William Clemens, "was born February 28th, 1861. He resides on part of the old 'Bowman Farm' at Blair where he is engaged in farming. He is married to Amelia Hagey. They have had three 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.].

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DEATH OF WILLIAM HENRY CLEMENS.

At his residence on Oak street, Galt, on Sunday, Mr. Walter H. Clemens, son of the late Mr. Oliver Clemens, passed away in his forty-eighth year.

Mr. Clemens had been a sufferer for a long time, a victim of consumption, but an attack of hemorrhage absorbed all the strength that had been left by the insidious disease. He was born in the county of Waterloo and had spent all his life on his farm at Blair. Last spring he retired from business and lived in Preston, and it was only revently he went to Galt to reside.

Deceased had been twice married, and now leaves a widow and five children by his first wife and one by its second. A brother and sister also are left to mourn his loss, Mrs. Joseph Stauffer, of Galt, and Dr. G. H. Clemens, of Toronto.

The remains of the deceased gentleman were laid to rest in Blair cemetery Tuesday afternoon, the first part of the burial service being held Blair church.

The Weekly News-Record Thu, Aug 13, 1908 Page 1

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The funeral of the late William H. Clemens of Galt was held here on Monday afternoon and was largely attended. Mr. Clemens was a resident of Ayr for many years, and last March sold his farm here and moved to Preston. He then bought a home in Galt and had only been living there a few days prior to his demise. The sympathy of the entire community is extended to the bereaved family.

The Weekly News-Record Thu, Aug 13, 1908 Page 3

William married Evangeline Angeline "Eve" Hagey 22 Aug 1900, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Evangeline (daughter of David Hagey and Hannah Cornell) was born 27 Jan 1869, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 13 Nov 1941, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

William — Amelia Hagey. Amelia (daughter of Reeve Henry Hagey and Sarah Schwartz) was born 6 Nov 1862, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 29 Apr 1899, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1763

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Malissa Clemens, "the youngest daughter of Oliver Clemens, was born February 10th, 1865. She is unmarried and resides with her father, making home pleasant and cheerful for him during the evening of his life."


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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• Name: Oliver Gerrard Eschleman
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1759.2
• Birth: 6 Dec 1880, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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• Name: Claude Clemens Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1759.5
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller, Machine
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Claud — Margaret Louise. Margaret died 5 Oct 1966; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1759.4
• Grave Photograph - Find A Grave: Clive Bowman Stauffer
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller, Robe Works
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Clive — Jean Davidson Atkin. Jean (daughter of George Turnbull Aitken and Ellen Pringle Scott "Nellie" Dunn) was born 16 Jun 1886, , Ontario, Canada; died 24 Feb 1970; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-89038
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Residence: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-90838
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private

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• Interesting: business, charity
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-62098

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"Joseph Stanley Stauffer was born in Galt on June 16, 1896, the son of Joseph Stauffer and Magdalena Clemens. He was educated at Galt's Central Public School and at the Galt Collegiate Institute. Following graduation from high school he enrolled at Queen's University to study engineering. Mr. Stauffer's studies were interrupted by the First World War when he went overseas to serve with the Royal Naval Air Service. When the war ended, he returned to his studies and graduated, in 1920, as a metallurgist. Following graduation from Queen's University, Mr. Stauffer travelled to London, England for graduate courses in fuel technology at the Imperial College of Science. He then ventured into fuel technology, telephone, textile, stamping and financial interests, becoming an executive in all these fields, all the while accumulating a significant fortune which was used to establish the Joseph's. Stauffer Foundation. A quiet philanthropist, Mr. Stauffer contributed substantially to his alma mater and supported the Queen's University Endowment Fund and spear headed the Charles Poynton Memorial Award. He is reported to have sent cheques, anonymously at Christmas, to supplement the pensions of widows of the engineering professors who had taught him in his student days at Queen's University. Mr. Stauffer was a director of Stauffer-Dobbie Ltd., of Newlands & Co. and of Galt Metal Industries and was a member of the Royal Canadian Military Institute. He died in Toronto on June 16, 1978 and is buried in the Mausoleum in Mount View Cemetery."

Cambridge Mosaic

Joseph married Annabelle McNabb 19 Jul 1928, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. Annabelle was born 3 Dec 1895, Edenvale, , Ontario; died 1 Jul 1983; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00023-1760.4

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At "Blairholme," Port Perry, on the evening of the 19th inst., Lillie Aileen, only daughter of Dr. G. H. Clemens, aged 8 months and 16 days.

Galt Reporter Oct 26 1888 pg 8

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133230113
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-116664
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1923, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; Stenographer

Eliza married Alfred Stanley Sprules 26 Mar 1923, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Alfred (son of Frank Foster Sprules and Emma Ann Membery) was born 1891, Portishead, , Somerset, England; died 23 Jan 1957, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cemetery, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27322637
• Eby ID Number: 00047-3498.2
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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Ralph Clemens Dies In London

LONDON, Ont. (CP)-Ralph Clemens, 76, former agricultural representative at a number of western Ontario centres, died in hospital Thursday night. A native of Blair, he had lived in London for 19 years. He served as agricultural representative at Galt, Arthur and Essex. He later managed a government farm at Monteith, and served as farm superintendent at the Ontario hospitals at Whitby and London. He retired from the London post in 1956.

The Brantford Expositor Sat, Jan 28, 1961 Page 8

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• Eby ID Number: 00047-3498.6
• Birth: 17 Jan 1888
• Birth: 5 Dec 1888

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In Blair, on Tuesday, 17th January, Roy O., son of Wm. Henry and Amelia Clemens, aged 5 months and 22 days.

Galt Reporter Jan 27 1888 pg 8

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• Name: Irene Elizabeth McDonald
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1762.4
• Residence: 1891, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Irene married Ernest Carlyle McDonald 14 Apr 1913, Ayr, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ernest (son of William McDonald and Elizabeth Taylor Brown) was born 25 Jan 1885, North Dumfries Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Military: WW1
• Name: Paul Leon Clemens
• Residence: Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Dept. Of Agriculture, Chatham, Ontario
• Eby ID Number: 00023-1762.3
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Private
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #324954

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Military:
Clemens, Leon Paul Private. Enlisted with O.A.C. Battery. Born at Blair 24 years ago. He was educated at Blair, at Galt Collegiate Institute and at the O.A.C. Guelph for two years. He was killed in action September 27, 1917. His step-mother lives on Spruce St., Galt, Ontario. Mrs. W.H. Clemens.

Clemens, Leon Paul: Grace Schmidt Room Digital Collection. (2016). Vitacollections.ca. Retrieved 16 May 2016, from https://vitacollections.ca/kpl-gsr/2830837/data?n=1

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• Name: Lena Clemens
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95358
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-116661
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Interesting: military, business
• Military: WW2
• Name: R. C. Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-414372

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"Richard Clive Stauffer was born in Galt on Jan. 2, 1922, the son of Clive Bowman Stauffer and Jean Davidson Aitkin. Mr. Stauffer joined the Highland Light Infantry of Canada in 1940, attaining the rank first of Lieutenant and, later, of Captain. He led his troops in the D-Day landing in Normandy and 4 weeks later was seriously wounded during the successful 12 hour battle for the French town of Buronon July 8, 1944. In 1953 Mr. Stauffer purchased the assets of T. A. Rutherford and Son Fuels and changed the company name to Stauffer Fuels. In 1956 Mr. Stauffer's company amalgamated with Galt Fuel and Supply Co.Ltd. to create Stauffer Quality Fuels Ltd. In 1960 another amalgamation took place, this time with Roos Fuels Company Ltd. to form Stauffer-Roos Fuels which was located at 101 Ainslie St. S. Mr. Stauffer died at Saugeen Memorial Hospital in Southampton on Sept. 22, 1988 and is buried in Mount View Cemetery."

Cambridge Mosaic

Richard — Catherine Isabelle "Isabelle" Scott. Catherine (daughter of Emerson Dean "Dean" Scott and Anna Jessie Wilhelmina "Ann" Hood) was born 17 Feb 1927, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 30 Aug 2018, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-53021

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Annulments were granted Neil Carlyle McDonald, Kitchener from Edythe Marion McDonald

Kitchener-Waterloo Record Sat, May 19, 1956 Page 5