Johann Jacob "Jacob" Hailer

Other Events:

• Interesting: honoured, business, story, religion
• Possesions: Cane of John Jacob Hailer
• Name: Jacob Hailer
• Name: Jakob Hailer
• Name: John Jacob Hailer
• Residence: Evangelical Gemeinshaft Association, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-24450
• Immigration: 1829, Baltimore, Baltimore (City), Maryland, USA
• Immigration: 1830, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; wheelwright
• Occupation: 1852, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; wheel wright
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wheelwright
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Wheelright
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Breithaupt is a daughter of Jacob Hailer, a native of Baden, Germany. He left the old country in 1829, and after spending one year in Baltimore, Maryland, came to Canada, and settled where the town of Berlin now stands. That was just fifty years ago. He built the fifth or sixth house in the place, and followed the wheelwright business till a few years ago, his specialty being spinning wheels and reels. He is in his 76th year, and somewhat deaf and infirm. His wife is also living, and quite smart and active. Mr. Hailer is a prominent member of the Evangelical Association, and has long been an officer of the same.

The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Ontario Volume, 1880

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Zion United Church

A Sunday School was established in Berlin in 1837, meeting in Jacob Hailer's carpenter shop which was located at the southeast corner of what is now King and Scott Streets. A mission was begun by Rev. Christian Holl shortly after his arrival in Berlin on May 9, 1839, and a class (or congregation) was organized several months later on August 29, 1839 by Bishop John Seybert of the Evangelical Association during a camp meeting held at David Erb's farm near Lexington. John Hoffman was the Berlin class leader; his brother, Jacob, was class leader for the Waterloo-Lexington congregation. The Berlin congregation met in the old Town Hall until their first church was built in 1841 on Queen Street South across from Church Street on land purchased as of August 24, 1841 from Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schneider. The church was dedicated on September 25th of that year, with Rev. Christian Hummel of Buffalo, New York, officiating. Rev. Joseph Harlacher was pastor from 1840-1842. In 1842 the Waterloo Mission became a Circuit of the East Pennsylvania Conference. Two years later it was part of the New York Conference.

The second church building was built of brick on the same site in 1866, and dedicated in 1867; Rev. C.A. Spies was pastor at the time. The old frame church was sold and moved to Elgin Street where it was used as a dwelling. In the same year Berlin became a station.

The present church building was built in 1893 on Weber Street; dedication services were held on June 15, 16 and 17, 1894. This building was heavily damaged by fires in 1942 and 1965 but was renovated and restored each time.

The union of the Evangelical Church and the United Brethren in Christ Church on November 16, 1946 created the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The name of the church was to change again, to Zion United Church when the Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church of Canada on January 1, 1968.

Of interest: some maps of early Berlin show this church as a German Methodist church.


Waterloo County Churches A Research Guide To Churches Established Before 1900 By Rosemary Ambrose

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Jacob Hailer was born in Wilferdingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, in 1804, came to Waterloo Township in 1832, bought his first acre of land in Berlin from Bishop Benjamin Eby in 1833 and at once established himself as proprietor of a chair and spinning wheel shop, in which he did a modest but flourishing business for well over forty years. He was instrumental in establishing in Canada the religious denomination known as the Evangelical Association, whose regular place of worship for some time, until a church was built, was in Hailer's shop. The first church of this denomination in Canada was built in 1841, on Queen street south, opposite the end of Church street, Berlin. This was a frame building, replaced in 1866 by one of brick and moved to Elgin street, where it still exists as a dwelling. The present church on Weber street is the third building of this denomination in Berlin. Jacob Hailer died in 1882

First Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1913

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Jacob Hailer of Wilferdingen, Grand Duchy of Baden, bought an acre of land at the southeast corner of King and Scott Streets in 1832 from Bishop Ben Eby. A stretch of forest stood on the other side of King Street. Mr. Hailer built a home on his purchase and next a chair and spinning-wheel shop. At first he used a foot lathe to do his turning. Samples of his chairs and spinning-wheel may be seen in the Waterloo Historical Society's Museum. Mr. Hailer was the grandfather of a prominent city family, and actively engaged in business for more than forty years.

A History of Kitchener, W. V. (Ben) Uttley, Kitchener, Ontario 1937, pp 33-34

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King Street , North Side

Frederick Street.

Bishop Benjamin Eby's farm came to the corner of King and Frederick Streets. Next to Frederick Street, Frederick and William Miller erected a frame building and used it as a general store. After the grading operations spoken of this building had to undergo the same process as the St. Nicholas Hotel. It was considered a fine building in its day with large windows on each side of the centre door. Henry Stroh finally bought the building and tore it down in 1868. Jacob Stroh has some of the window sash, shutters, stairway, etc., still in his possession. Later the building was occupied by Jacob Eckstein cigar maker and tobacco dealer. Mrs. Warren with a family lived on the second story for a number of years.

Vacant lot. Next a large brick building with double deck porch along the front, the Queen's Arms Hotel, built about 1840 and continued as a hotel until about 1860. A Mr. Butchard was the first landlord and later Levi Weber. From this hotel the first omnibus met the trains at the G.T.R. station in Berlin in 1856. Before that day it was a stopping place of stage coaches operating from Hamilton and Galt to Berlin and beyond. The old Queen's Arms long vacant and practically ruined as a building was sold finally and made room for the Market Building and Town Hall in 1869.*

Next we come to the John Roos house. This also had a double-deck veranda with heavy posts as was the style 1840-50. The building was later turned into a hotel known as the Market Hotel and kept by Casper Heller.

A lot with a log cabin in the rear, occupied by Jacob Sauer, who had come from Pennsylvania, father of Mrs. John Roat.

* See 1922 Annual Report W. H. S., p. 210.

A harness shop occupied by John Roat, then by his son John and later by John Haugh, a son-in-law of John Roat.

A garden. A dwelling, 4 or 5 feet lower than the street which had been filled up, where lived the Susand family. Mrs. Susand had a reputation with juveniles for tarts and molasses taffy sold in lc. bars. Her children were in the habit of selling these wares to passengers at the G.T.R. station. After her husband's death about 1860, widow Susand moved her shop to Foundry Street North, and there continued until she died. Susand was an ex-slave. In 1857 at a nomination meeting for Council, he was nominated and stood a good chance of being elected, as a joke. However, the more thoughtful element among the voters prevailed.

A two story, frame building, lengthwise with King Street, built in the '30's. After street grading this had to be raised so that what had before been the ground floor became the cellar or basement.

A house occupied by Wm. Hawke,-known as Bill Hawke- a mason. A stout, easy-going man. His wife was in the habit of standing in the door way, with white lace cap, smoking a clay pipe. The east end of this building was occupied by Winters, a hatter, the first hat maker in Berlin. He made the old style, broad brim, Mennonite hats in fashion up to about 1845. At the corner of Scott stood a brick building of good size with gable toward King Street, used to stable the first fire teams for a number of years. Later John Wagner had a waggon shop above and George Ward a blacksmith shop underneath. Scott Street was, however, not opened until many years later.

A one and one-half story building rough cast, gable facing King St., occupied by H. W. Peterson, who began publishing the "Canada Museum", in 1835 and so continued until 1840 when he went to Guelph as first Registrar of the County of Wellington. This was the first newspaper published in Waterloo County.

Jacob Hailer's house, a one and one-half story, frame building with porch along the front partly enclosed by lattice work. In this house was born in 1834, Catherine Hailer, who married Louis Breithaupt. She is said to have been the first child born in Berlin of parents who came from Germany. Hailer's barn was some distance back from the street and next along on the street front was his shop where he manufactured spinning wheels, etc., and chairs which had a large distribution. Hailer was an expert wood turner. He had two foot-power lathes and a number of German assistants from time to time, continuing his shop for about 40 years.

A two story frame building lengthwise with King Street, erected by Dr. John Scott. He had a drug store with two good-sized windows at the front. On the east gable of the building was a sign, "Med. Hall" in large letters. The sign was legible long after Dr. Scott's death. The doctor pursued his practice on horseback for which he used three horses. He was the first medical practitioner in Berlin, coming in 1834, at the time of the cholera epidemic. For a few years before he was married he boarded at the Gaukel Hotel. His later house, after the one described, is still standing on Weber Street at the rear of the Kitchener Public Library.

The old Scott house on King Street was later occupied by Franz Martin who kept a saloon. Martin had a musical family, with the zither as their principal instrument, which all the children could play.

A one and one-half story, frame building, painted, occupied by Anslm Wagner, a potter.

A brick building 1 ½ story lengthwise with King Street, the west end of which was John Eby's drug store, the rest of the building being his dwelling. This was the first regular drug store in Berlin.

A brick building with a frame extension in the rear used by David Eby as a pump shop. Part of the brick building is still standing, the rest having been cut olT for the opening of Eby Street North.

A one story hip roof brick cottage occupied by Geo. Eby, a Notary, who came to Canada in 1804. He died in this house. A considerable fish story is told of how he followed a sturgeon in the Conestoga River, part of Grand River, and finally speared it.

A one and one-half story building, probably rough cast, occupied by Hy. Wurm, a carpenter employed at the Simpson factory.

A two story brick building painted red occupied by Henry S. Huber.'

A handsome brick building, two story, with veranda along the front and ground floor considerably above the street level, with broad steps, the width of the building, leading to it, was built in 1850. Some time later it was occupied by Casper Heller and known as the Royal Exchange hotel. Following the old custom its swinging sign had "Last Chance" on the side toward the village and "First Chance" outward, referring to liquid refreshments. Heller kept a good hotel and had also a large shed and ham next east of the hotel.

On the corner a steam grist mill was erected, about 1860. Louis Seyler, a German, was the miller. The custom was for farmers to bring in their wheat to have it ground, getting in return flour, bran and middlings, the miller retaining his toll. Later Lehnen & Shelly operated this mill.

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

Johann — Margareth Riehl. Margareth was born 13 Oct 1807, Muehlhausen, , Bayern, Germany; died 9 Jun 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Honoured: Margaret Avenue in Kitchener supposedly named after her.
• Interesting: honoured, story, pioneer
• Name: Margaret Bean
• Name: Margaret Wagner
• Eby ID Number: 00008-981.2
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Church

Notes:

"The sudden and unexpected death of one of Kitchener's oldest and most respected residents, Mrs. Margaret Bean, took place on Sunday evening about 5: 30 o'clock following an attack of apoplexy. The deceased, who was 87 years of age a few weeks ago, attended the Children's Day exercises and the regular service in Zion Church on Sunday morning, and after partaking of a hearty dinner she retired to her room as usual. On their return after a few hours absence, her daughter, Mrs. Bender, went upstairs and was shocked to find her mother on the floor in her room cold in death. No one was near. Her death was a peaceful one.

Mrs. Bean moved here with her family from Mildmay over 32 years ago, where her husband Mr. Daniel Bean, died a year previous, and where they had lived for eight years. Mrs. Bean was born in Chippewa on the Canadian side of the Niagara River, on May 30th 1831, and in the fall of the same year she moved with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hailer, to near German Mills, later removing to what was then the beginning of this city. Growing to womanhood, she wedded Rev. Jacob Wagner, with whom she lived a few brief years until his death. Later she was wedded to Mr. Daniel Bean, who in the early sixties, taught school in the vicinity of Freeport and later in Dundee, and Dashwood, after which he took up farming on the original Bean homestead in Blandford Township, Oxford County, and then moving to Mildmay in 1878. She saw this city grow from a few houses to the present status of a city, as also the church of her choice, in which she was a life member and an active and energetic worker in various departments. She had many friends by whom she will be greatly missed and for whom she always had a cheerful and comforting word.

She leaves to mourn her sudden departure four sons and four daughters; Rev. L. H. Wagner, Supt. of N. W. Missions of the Evang. Association; Mrs. Hy. R. Bates, Elgin, Ill.; Rev. E. H. Bean, Milverton; Mrs. Hy. N. Schmidt, S. Dakota; Mrs. E. M. Haist, Buffalo; S. U. Bean, Kitchener; Rev. J. Wesley Bean, Mt. Elgin; Mrs. A. C. Bender, Kitchener; also 33 grand children and 7 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Hy. S. Dickert, Regina, Sask.; and Mrs. Fred Schnittker, Bruce County, are stepdaughters"


Berlin Daily Telegraph Jul 8, 1918

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Mrs. Margaret Bean. Mrs. Margaret Bean, one of Kichener's oldest residents, was found lying on the floor of her room on Sunday night by her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Bender, after having suffered an attack of apoplexy, and died almost instantly. She was in her eighty-eighth year and had attended Sunday School and church in the morning. She was twice married, her first husband being the late Rev. Jacob Wagner, and her second husband was the late Daniel Bean, who died thirty-two years ago in Mildmay. She lived in Kitchener for thirty-two years and was well-known in the community."


Monkton Times 11 Jul, 1918

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Margaret Street in Kitchener was named in her honour.

Margaret married Rev. Jacob Wagner 14 Sep 1849, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Jacob was born 15 Oct 1824, Siefersheim, , Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany; died 19 Apr 1858, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Margaret married Daniel G. Bean 27 Apr 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Daniel (son of Abraham Biehn and Susannah Graybill) was born 9 Apr 1832, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Mar 1885, Near Mildmay, Bruce Co., Ontario; was buried , Mildmay United Cemetery, Mildmay, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Catharine Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95840
• Residence: 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Illegible
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Sketch of the life of CATHARINE BREITHAUPT HER FAMILY and TIMES.

On the main street of Berlin, just east of what is now Scott Street corner, there stood until some twenty years ago a handsome one-and-a-half storey white frame house with sundry additions. Along the front of the house extended a trellised veranda, and the space between this and the street was filled in with a cobblestone walk and a narrow border of flower beds and perennially blooming lilacs. An enclosed lawn with fine trees, and with a grape arbor against the house, filled in the angle between main house and easterly extension. Beyond this was a spacious yard with driveway from street gate to a barn at the rear, and another one-and-one-half storey building directly on the street, the former workshop of the proprietor. Along the street line was an immaculate white picket fence. A well-cultivated vegetable garden outlined with thick rows of currant bushes adjoined the rear of the house. Beyond, down the hill, stretched an orchard to another garden enclosure and a little meadow with diminutive, but never dry, watercourse spanned by a little bridge, the whole bounded by the rear street.

Eight substantial brick houses, roomily spaced, now occupy the former orchard and meadow; the barnyard contains a dwelling and several business buildings; and the old house, still standing, but masked by a brick ex-tension to the street line, is changed to two stores, known as numbers 104 and 106 King Street East.

In this house, not long after it was first built, and many years before it with its setting attained the trim and prosperous look we so well remember, there was born at half-past ten in the evening of a sultry summer day, the 16th day of August, 1834, Catharine, the second daughter of Jacob and Margaret Hailer.

The time was one of memorable affliction in the settlement. An epidemic of cholera had broken out in the village of Galt, twelve miles from Berlin, immediately following the visit of a circus on the 28th of July, and had been brought by resident circus visitors to Berlin and vicinity. In one week there were thirty-three deaths in Galt alone. A victim in Berlin, dying of cholera on August 18th, was the wife of Bishop Eby, who appears to have been the principal man of affairs of the settlement. A man later prominent. in Berlin and in the County generally as a public-spirited citizen came into notice at this time. Dr. John Scott had come over from Scotland to his brother in Galt only a few weeks before the breaking out of the cholera there, and was one of the most active and fearless relief workers. He was later for many years a resident of Berlin, was the first Reeve of the village and first Warden of Waterloo County.

The present Public Library, opposite one of the corners of Court House Square, occupies what had been Dr. Scott's ornamental garden in front of his house; and the old house, of red brick, well preserved though somewhat changed, still stands at the rear of the library.

The little hamlet of Berlin, so named only a few years before, after having been variously known as the Sand Hills and as Ebytown, contained at this time but a few scattered dwellings. Across the road from the one spoken of there was still, and for a number of years after, a con-siderable stretch of woods. A little farther west was one of the sand hills, where now is the Town Hall with street surface graded down about twelve feet below its level of that time. Down the hill was a swamp which the road to the Waterloo grist mill crossed on "corduroy." Stretching for many miles about Berlin was a prosperous farming settlement of Pennsylvania Germans, who had taken up the land some thirty years before.

To this settlement, then a part of Halton County, Upper Canada, came Jacob Hailer with young wife and infant daughter, and on locating in Berlin established a home which he retained to the end of his life. He soon resumed his handicraft of wood turner and chair and spinning-wheel maker, which had been in abeyance since he had left his native Germany a few years before, and at once filled a want in the settlement. The pioneer manufacturer in Berlin, he was also the first settler from Germany, the first of the large body of native Germans who, mainly, made of the little village the most important German centre as well as the foremost manufacturing town in Canada.

Jacob Hailer was born in Wilferdingen, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, November 20th, 1804. He came to America in 1829, landing at Baltimore, Md. There, through her father, brother and sister, who had been fellow passengers with him, he met Margaret Riehl (born 1807), a native of Muehlhausen in the then French Province of Alsace, who with a younger brother had come over the year before. In those days, which saw the feeble beginnings of ocean steam navigation, the voyage to America was by sailing vessel and was a hazardous undertaking. Margaret Riehl and her young brother were ninety-two days at sea. Their vessel (named the Henry Clay), driven out of its course by adverse winds, was given up for lost, and passengers and crew were on the verge of starvation before port was gained, and this was Baltimore, instead of New York, the intended destination. Jacob Hailer accompanied the Riehl family to Buffalo in 1830, and there, in the same year, married Margaret Riehl. For a while they lived at Chippewa, on the Canada side of the Niagara River, where was born their first child, a daughter, Margaret, in 1831, in the fall of which year they came to what is now Waterloo Township, and lived for a year or longer in a little log-house about one mile west of what is now German Mills, on the main road from that place to Berlin. In 1833 Hailer bought his first acre of land in Berlin, from Benjamin Eby, the (Mennonite) Bishop Eby already spoken of, and at once set up his dwelling and workshop.

As the years passed the German Handwerker and his wife progressed by thrift and industry to competence. The family increased by a further succession of daughters: Harriet, born 1836, Marian in 1838, and Caroline Hannah in 1843; and finally came a son, Jacob Christian, born in 1846 (at which time, as we read, the population of Berlin amounted to 400).

Active as he was in the establishment of the Evangelical Association in Canada, the home of Jacob Hailer was always hospitably open to the ministers of this denomination. The first meetings of the Association in Berlin were for some time held in Hailer's shop. One of the ministers, a young man Jacob Wagner, for a time in charge of the work of the church in Berlin, married Margaret Hailer. Canada was at that time a part of the New York Conference of the Association. Minister Wagner was later stationed in Buffalo, N.Y., where one of his close friends was Philip Louis Breithaupt, a young man carrying on a light tanning business with his father. Breithaupt made periodical trips to Canada to buy sheep skins, etc., for the tannery in Buffalo, and through his friend Wagner made the acquaintance of the Hailer family. Liborius Breithaupt, the father of Philip Louis, died in May, 1851. His funeral was the first at which Minister Wagner officiated at Buffalo. The son thereafter dropped his one given name, Philip, and called himself simply Louis; mainly, it appears, in order to continue the business name of L. Breithaupt.

Louis Breithaupt married Catharine Hailer on the 8th day of February, 1853. We are told of how the wedding party, strung out in a line of cutters, drove daily to Bridgeport, to an hotel located on the south side of the road between the two bridges. Bridgeport at that time was a thriving trade and industrial centre, where were made, by hand, waggons, harness, saddles, knives, scythes, and farmers' requirements generally. In the evening the party attended the opening of the new court house of Waterloo County, then just completed, in Berlin. Husband and wife proceeded by horse and buggy-there was no railway to Berlin-to Buffalo, where awaited them on Carrol Street, next to Seneca Street, in the part of the city long known as the Hydraul-ics, a neat, substantial and commodious brick house just built by the husband. Here passed the first nine years, almost, of Catharine Breithaupt's married life, and here were born her first three sons, Louis Jacob in 1855, William Henry in 1857, and John Christian in 1859.

Before his marriage, a year after the death of his father, Louis Breithaupt formed a partnership with Jacob F. Schoellkopf in Buffalo, Schoellkopf being the capitalist and Breithaupt, apparently, the more active partner, doing particularly the outward business; travelling a good deal, among other directions to the then Far West, to Chicago, and beyond the Mississippi to the Missouri River. There may here be mentioned that in the way of business requiring the services of a lawyer, he made the acquaintance of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., and ever afterward retained intense admiration for this national hero. A small photograph of Lincoln, received from him, remains a souvenir of this acquaintance.

An early friend of Louis Breithaupt, from his youthful years, before he was married, and afterward a friend of his family, was, and is, Mr. Carl Boller of Buffalo, now in serene old age, but still active.

In 1857, Breithaupt, preferring a business of his own, started a tannery in Berlin, Canada West, on land obtained from his father-in-law. Hither came his good friend and brother-in-law, Rev. Jacob Wagner, in the spring of 1858, having, on account of broken health, had to quit the ministry and intending to go into business with Breithaupt. He died, only thirty-three years old, two weeks after his arrival in Berlin (in a house, later moved and still in use on Breithaupt Street, then occupying part of the site of the Breithaupt Leather Company's present warehouse and offices on Queen Street). Rev. Jacob Wagner's son, Louis Henry, now Superintendent of Missions for the Canada Conference of the E angelical Association in the North-West Provinces of Canada, lived for many years in the family of his uncle Breithaupt; first for a while in infancy after the death of his father, later in school age, and still later, after college years, when active in his uncle's business, until he entered the ministry in 1882.

In 1861, the year of the breaking out of the American Civil War, Louis Breithaupt decided to move to Canada. The family left Buffalo on the first day of November in that year. In Berlin they occupied for ten years the frame house and additions, now, what there is left, partly separated and used as three dwellings, off Adam Street near the tannery. In this house were born the first daughter, Caroline Margaret Barbara, in November, 1861, Melvina Emilia in 1863, Esra Carl in 1866, Daniel Edward in 1868, and Albert Liborius in 1870. In 1871 the family moved into the large brick house off Adam Street at the head of Margaret Avenue, known as Waldeck; and here, in joy and sorrow and in tranquil older age, Catharine Breithaupt lived for thirty-nine years, by a few years the greater part of her life. At Waldeck were born her children, Catharina Louise in 1872, and Friederich Adolph in 1875, and here she died peacefully and with Christian resignation on the evening of July the 5th, 1910, thirty years and two days after the death of her beloved husband.

The life of the father of the family was one of unremitting activity and of indomitable perseverance. Through successes and reverses, among the latter the complete destruction by fire of his entire tannery plant twice in short succession, in 1867 and in 1870, he built up a large business. In fostering the growth of his adopt-ed town and in the extension of its interests in every direction he was foremost. In the latter years of his life Louis Breithaupt had well earned to be called the first citizen of Berlin. For many years he was school trustee, member of the Town Council, etc. At the time of his death he was in his second year as Mayor of the Town. In all the activities of the father the mother was his constant, devoted and sympathetic helpmate. In the family the father was stern, but always affectionate. Of the mother her older sons will most strongly remember her distress when any of them had done wrong, and her persistence and love in correcting their faults.

A great sorrow came to the family in the tragic death of their little son and brother, Daniel Edward, not quite three years old, in 1871. On a Sunday afternoon, the 9th day of July, there was a Sunday School festival in a grove near the tannery, then rebuilding and not yet completed. Rain coming on the large party took shelter in the building, on the main floor, which broke, dropping many into the vats below. No one was injured to any extent except the little boy, who was drowned. "Gott schenke mir and uns alien die Gnade ihn im Himmel einst wieder zu sehen," [ God, grant me and all of us the grace to see him in heaven once again] wrote father of him in the family records in his Bible.

On the third day of July, 1880, a little after ten o'clock in the forenoon, there closed the useful life of Louis Breithaupt. Of vigorous constitution and great energy, he had broken down by overwork, and died, yet a young man, not quite 53 years old. In the house he planned and built with such excellent forethought, and wherein he died, in the same room as mother after him, he lived for less than nine years.
Father's death was the great crisis in mother's life. It was followed in a few short years by a number of deaths in the family. Freiderich Adolph, the youngest of the family, a most affectionate little boy, and already giving, at his tender age of seven years, evidence of large mental capacity, died of diphtheria on June 21st, 1882, in Cleveland, Ohio, where his mother was on a visit to her friend Mrs. (Bishop) Dubs. On April 14th, 1886, Catharina Louise, the youngest daughter, a bright, lovable child, the sunshine of the household and her mother's particular dependence, died after a short illness. Grandfather and grandmother Hailer celebrated the fiftieth anniversary, their golden wedding, quietly on September 19th, 1880. Not two years after, on the 6th of March, 1882, grandfather died. Grandmother, surviving him for three years, died on the 9th day of June, 1885.

Mother's only brother, Jacob Christian Hailer, died November 5th, 1886. He was twice married; in 1866 in New York, where his first wife died, and on November 21st, 1883, to Louisa Knell, at Berlin, Ont., to where he had returned. One daughter, Erna Bertha, is now the only bearer of the family name of grandfather Hailer's descendants.

Grandmother Breithaupt lived for many years in the family of her son, who tenderly cared for her after the early death of his father. Grandmother came over from Buffalo a few years after the rest of the family. Father had a separate dwelling built for her in one of the additions to the old house, and when building his new house a special part of it was built and arranged for grandmother. She died, at the age of 85 years, in January, 1887, six and one-half years after her son.

Our brother Esra Carl died, faithful unto death to his sense of duty, at 2 o'clock A.M. on the 27th day of January, 1897, from injuries received the evening before in an explosion at the Berlin Gas and Electric works, of which he was manager and part owner. Thus suddenly closed, in the flower of early manhood, at not quite 31 years, a life of large promise of usefulness. Esra Carl had taken the scientific course at North-Western College, Naperville, Ill., graduating in 1887. For some years after that, his health not being strong, he spent parts of the winters in the South, in Bermuda and in Texas, accompanying to both places Dr. D. S. Bowlby, an old and esteemed friend of the family; the family physician for more than forty years. In 1891 and 1892 he took a post-graduate course in Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, after which he lived regularly in Berlin. He changed the Berlin and Waterloo horse railway to an electric railway, and shortly afterward acquired a large interest in the property and became president and manager. He was member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and of the Canadian Electrical Association, of which latter body he was vice-president at the time of his death. Of his estate mother gave a thousand dollars to the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital, in which is placed a window to his memory.

It was years after father's death before our dear mother could be induced to resume any interest in life. A visit she made to Germany in 1888, with her son John, daughter Melvina and nephew Rev. L. H. Wagner, to father's relatives as also to her own, may be said to have been somewhat of a turning point. Gradually she became interested in many church and other benevolent activities, and particularly in her grandchildren as they came one by one. Her greatest pleasures were the family gatherings at her house, at Christmas and on other occasions. In her own Zion Church, in the building of which she so largely took part, both financially and with good counsel, and in the many interests connected with it; in the Canada Conference of the Evangelical Association, and in the general missionary and other causes of the Association; in the Berlin and Waterloo Hospital, of the Ladies' Auxiliary of which she was treasurer for a number of years, and in other worthy interests of her native town; she was for many years active. The cause which in later years held her greatest interest was perhaps that of the Deaconess' Society of the Evangelical Association in Canada; a cause which she had near at heart, and to which she left a handsome property in Berlin.

With her two oldest sons she was a trustee of her husband's estate, and in this capacity showed her business acumen as well as her power of smoothing out difficulties and reconciling divergent views. She was the active head of the family.

Our dear mother's health, for years feeble after father's death, was later fairly good. To this her habits of industry and regularity and of early rising and retiring largely contributed. She greatly enjoyed travel and benefited thereby. In 1896 she made a second visit to Germany. She made periodical visits to the two of her children living at a distance, and made other journeys, sometimes accompanying one or other of her sons on long trips, on one, only a few years ago, with her son Albert to the Pacific coast, all of which she enjoyed with ever buoyant and eager spirit. For more than twenty-five years she regularly spent part of the summer months in Penetanguishene, on Georgian Bay, where was her summer home and where she had many friends.

She was a. good correspondent, and had, naturally, the art of writing interesting letters. For many years she kept an extensive diary, which became a valuable family and general chronicle.

The death of her son-in-law, A. B. Augustine, in 1909, deeply affected her. Albert Benjamin Augustine was born in Racine, Wis., March 6th, 1859, graduated from North-Western College, Naperville, Ill., in 1879, and had been, at the time of his death, Principal of the Winslow School in his native city for over 25 years. He married sister Caroline in August, 1887, and became a greatly esteemed member of our family. His untimely death, Saturday, April 12th, was caused by kidney disease, which had confined him to his bed about four months. A life-size bronze medallion portrait of him, placed shortly after his death in the school which he well served for so many years, testifies to the respect in which he was held by his fellow citizens.

Mother had been subject to heart trouble more or less for a number of years. In March last she accompanied her son William on a somewhat hurried journey to Bermuda. Here were at the time her friends, and relations by marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Murphy and Miss Murphy, and she much enjoyed a short visit with them and to the scenes described to her, years before, by her son Esra Carl. The journey brought, however, some over-exertion, not sufficiently heeded. Her friends had urged her to prolong her visit in Bermuda, but she was eager to return home, and here her too active disposition led her at once to take part in various work and excitations instead of taking the rest she required. A month after her return heart disease again gave trouble, and a lingering illness set in which gradually exhausted her vitality. She had left her house for the last time, as it proved, by special effort, as she did not feel well, to attend a meeting of the Deaconess' Society. At times hope of recovery seemed justified, but complications ensued and the end was a gradual sinking. On Tuesday morning, July 5th, her children and grandchildren were called to bid farewell. She rallied somewhat, but was weaker again in the afternoon, and slowly lapsed into unconsciousness; she died at half-past eight in the evening. The funeral, Friday afternoon, July 8th, was very largely attended by friends and relatives from near and far. Her mortal remains were reverently laid to rest in the family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, between the graves of her husband and her son Esra Carl. "So strong, so gentle, a life full of love and good works, which invokes sweet memories, not of sorrow, but of joy and hope," said, of her, a close personal friend. The memory of her useful, noble life remains a blessing to generation upon generation of her descendants.

About fourteen years ago our dear mother planted, in the centre of the little public green in the bend of Margaret Avenue near her house, a northern oak sapling, brought from Georgian Bay. This oak, now becoming a stately tree, is typical of her character-strong, steadfast, beautiful.

Surviving are four sisters, four sons, two daughters, twenty-five grandchildren, the youngest born in her house during her last illness, and two great-grandchildren.

An item from the Toronto Globe, a biographical sketch from the Berliner Journal, a short biography and appreciation in the Christliche Botschafter, by her friend, the editor, Rev. G. Heinmiller, an extract from the Berlin Daily News of July 7th, 1880, relating to Louis Breithaupt, and a family register are appended.

BERLIN, ONT., March, 1911.

From the Globe, Toronto, Thursday, July 7, 1910:
DEATH OF MRS. BREITHAUPT.BERLIN'S OLDEST NATIVE RESIDENT AND A PROMINENT CHURCH WORKER.

BERLIN, Ont., July 6.- The death took place on Tuesday evening of Mrs. Catharine Breithaupt, relict of the late Louis Breithaupt, at the family residence on Margaret Avenue. The deceased had been ill since April with heart trouble.

The late Mrs. Breithaupt was born in 1834, and was Berlin's oldest native resident. Her parents immigrated to Canada in 1830, and were the first German settlers in Berlin. In 1853 she was married to the late Mr. Louis Breithaupt, who then resided in Buffalo. In 1861 they moved to Berlin and Mrs. Breithaupt has resided here ever since. Her husband died in 1880. She is survived by four sons and two daughters.
During her long residence in Berlin she has been connected with almost every charitable and philanthropic movement in the town. She was a life-long member of Zion Evangelical Church and one of its most liberal contributors. In addition to assisting in the erection of the new church, she also donated the beautiful organ in memory of her deceased husband and son Carl. She was a valued member of the various organizations of the church, and was also officially connected with the Deaconess' Society of the Canada Conference and of the General Board in Chicago.

From the Berlin Daily News, July 7, 1880.

MR. BREITHAUPT'S FUNERAL.

Without doubt the largest funeral that ever took place in the County of Waterloo was that of the late Mayor Breithaupt. Amongst those present were friends and relations from Detroit, Buffalo, New York, and other places in the States, the Warden of the County, the Mayors and Councils of Galt, Waterloo, Guelph, Stratford, &c., and nearly all the other leading citizens of the County of Waterloo. As previously stated in these columns, the funeral services commenced at the family residence, where the Revds. S. Weber and C. A. Spies led the devotions. After this the procession formed in the following order, headed by Mr. H. Anthes in a carriage:

The Town Police,
The Band,
The Fire Brigade,
The Employees,
The Clergy,
The Family Physician,
The Hearse,
The Family,
The other Mourners,
The Berlin Council,
Councils of other Places,
The Citizens.

The Police, Band, Firemen and employees were on foot, the rest in carriages. The pall bearers were H. Kranz, M.P., Ex-mayor, Wm. Jaffray, Reeve, and Councillors Clement, Staebler, Anthes and Moffat. The procession moved very slowly, the Band playing the Dead March in a most feeling and affecting manner. All along the route the streets were lined with people desirous of seeing the pageant move along. At the church only a very small portion of the people could get in, but a highly interesting and affecting service was held. The Rev. Joseph Umbach, an old friend and pastor of deceased, preached a very eloquent and powerful sermon in the German, and the Rev. S. L. Umbach made a short address in the English language. The service being concluded here, the procession was again formed and proceeded to the cemetery, where the pastor of the church, the Rev. J. Kliphardt, read the burial service. Amongst the clergy present were, in addition to those already mentioned, Revds. C. F. Braun, Geo. Braun, G. Staebler, M. L. Wing and J. Murlock from a distance, and Revds. Messrs. Fellman, Ford, Manz, Tait, Beaumont, Funcken and Sherk, of the Town. The mere mention of all these names is sufficient to show conclusively in what great esteem the late Mayor was held. In addition to what has already been given in these columns, we add the following particulars as furnished by the family : -Louis Breithaupt was born Nov. 8th, 1827, in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany. In 1842 his father emigrated to America, and in the following year returned to Germany and brought in his mother and himself. He was at this time 16 years old. He came to Buffalo, N.Y., where he carried on business on a very limited scale in company with his father. On the death of his father in 1851 he became a partner in the extensive tanning and leather business of Mr. J. F. Schoellkopf of Buffalo, travelling for this firm for 12 years. In 1858 he established his leather business in Berlin, and three years later, before the outbreak of the late American war, he removed with his family to Berlin, Canada. He was married in 1853, the three eldest sons being born in Buffalo, N.Y., and the rest of the family here. Three daughters and six sons are now living, and one son was accidentally drowned in July, 1871. He was burned out twice in Berlin. His mother, aged 79, is still living, as also his only sister who resides in Detroit.

FAMILY REGISTER.

Liborius Breithaupt was born in Allendorf an der Werra, Kurhessen, Germany, in 1797; died, Buffalo, N.Y., May, 1851. October 24th, 1826, he married Barbara Catharina Goetze, born October 19th, 1801, died, Berlin, Ont., Canada, January, 1887. Like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Liborius Brei-thaupt was by occupation a light-leather tanner. In January, 1844, after a preliminary voyage to and stay in America for apparently about a year, he brought over his family, wife and son, and settled in Buffalo, N.Y. His own account is: …. [Written in German and not included]

Liborius and Catharina Breithaupt had issue:

Philip Louis, afterward known as Louis Breithaupt, born in Allendorf a.W., November 8th, 1827; died, Berlin, Ont., July 3rd, 1880.

Marie Elisabeth Friederika, born June 14th, 1829, died May 13th, 1834.

Catharina, born, Buffalo, N.Y., February 18th, 1847; married, March 3rd, 1864, Jacob Raquet, who died in Detroit, Mich., 1887. Issue: William Jacob, born 1867; Clara Maria, 1869; Edward David, 1870; Henrietta Catharine Philomene, 1873; Emilie Louise, 1875; and Joseph John Louis, 1876.

Louis Breithaupt, married February 8th, 1853, Catharine Hailer (parents, Jacob and Margaret Hailer, see p. 4), born August 16th, 1834, Berlin, and there died July 5th, 1910. Issue:

Louis Jacob, born March 3rd, 1855; married, April 5th, 1881, Emma Alvarene Devitt, born Waterloo, Ont., October 17th, 1860. Children:

Louise Evelyn, born June 11th, 1882; married, October 31st, 1906, John Roland Parry, M.D., born Dunnville, Ont., June 13th, 1879; children: Margaret Magdalen Lilian, born August 4th, 1907, and Emma Elizabeth, born May 25th, 1910.
Emma Lilian, born May 28th, 1884.
Martha Edna, born July 26th, 1885.
Rosa Melvina, born June 19th, 1887.
Louis Orville, born October 28th, 1890.
William Walter, born June 7th, 1894.
Catharine Olive, born January 28th, 1896.
Paul Theodore, born September 9th, 1903.

William Henry, born January 25th, 1857; married, February 1st, 1898, Martha Cunningham Murphy, born Montreal, Que., July 24th, 1865. Children:
Philip William, born New York, December 16th, 1898.
Margaret Catharine, born Berlin, Ont., October 4th, 1901.
Martha Elizabeth, born Berlin, Ont., April 29th, 1906.

John Christian, born February 27th, 1859; married, January 27th, 1892, Caroline Catharine Anthes, born Berlin, Ont., Sep-tember 29th, 1868. Children:
John Edward, born December 8th, 1892.
Louise Catharine, born September 29th, 1894.
Carl Louis, born July 27th, 1896.
Frieda Carolina, born March 30th, 1898.
Walter Hailer, born November 20th, 1901.
Helena Esther, born September 23rd, 1908.

Caroline Margaret Barbara, born November 17th, 1861; married, August 3rd, 1887, Albert Benjamin Augustine, M.A., born March 6th, 1859, Racine, Wis., and there died April 12th, 1909. Children, born Racine, Wis.:
Albert William, October 26th, 1890.
Laurene Catharine, May 31st, 1894.
Grace Melvina Louisa, September 12th, 1895.

Melvina Emilia, born February 8th, 1863; married, June 25th, 1901, Amos Franklyn Baumann, M.D., born Waterloo Township, near Bloomingdale, Ont., September 29th, 1857. One child:
Eduard Franklyn Breithaupt, born, Waterloo, Ont., June 21st, 1904.

Esra Carl, born February 19th, 1866; died January 27th, 1897.

Daniel Edward, born October 30th, 1868; died July 9th, 1871.

Albert Liborius, born November 3rd, 1870; married, July 2nd, 1901, Lydia Louise Anthes, born Berlin, Ont., March 27th, 1877. Children:
Friedrich Albert, born July 29th, 1902.
Martha Marie Louise, born December 15th, 1903.
Rudolph Anthes, born October 21st, 1906.
Ruth Anna Catharine, born April 12th, 1910.

Catharina Louise, born December 3rd, 1872; died April 14th, 1886.
Friederich Adolph, born March 25th, 1875; died June 21st, 1882.

Sketch of the Life of Catharine Breithaupt, her family and times, Berlin, Ontario, 1911

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King Street , North Side

Frederick Street.

Bishop Benjamin Eby's farm came to the corner of King and Frederick Streets. Next to Frederick Street, Frederick and William Miller erected a frame building and used it as a general store. After the grading operations spoken of this building had to undergo the same process as the St. Nicholas Hotel. It was considered a fine building in its day with large windows on each side of the centre door. Henry Stroh finally bought the building and tore it down in 1868. Jacob Stroh has some of the window sash, shutters, stairway, etc., still in his possession. Later the building was occupied by Jacob Eckstein cigar maker and tobacco dealer. Mrs. Warren with a family lived on the second story for a number of years.

Vacant lot. Next a large brick building with double deck porch along the front, the Queen's Arms Hotel, built about 1840 and continued as a hotel until about 1860. A Mr. Butchard was the first landlord and later Levi Weber. From this hotel the first omnibus met the trains at the G.T.R. station in Berlin in 1856. Before that day it was a stopping place of stage coaches operating from Hamilton and Galt to Berlin and beyond. The old Queen's Arms long vacant and practically ruined as a building was sold finally and made room for the Market Building and Town Hall in 1869.*

Next we come to the John Roos house. This also had a double-deck veranda with heavy posts as was the style 1840-50. The building was later turned into a hotel known as the Market Hotel and kept by Casper Heller.

A lot with a log cabin in the rear, occupied by Jacob Sauer, who had come from Pennsylvania, father of Mrs. John Roat.

* See 1922 Annual Report W. H. S., p. 210.

A harness shop occupied by John Roat, then by his son John and later by John Haugh, a son-in-law of John Roat.

A garden. A dwelling, 4 or 5 feet lower than the street which had been filled up, where lived the Susand family. Mrs. Susand had a reputation with juveniles for tarts and molasses taffy sold in lc. bars. Her children were in the habit of selling these wares to passengers at the G.T.R. station. After her husband's death about 1860, widow Susand moved her shop to Foundry Street North, and there continued until she died. Susand was an ex-slave. In 1857 at a nomination meeting for Council, he was nominated and stood a good chance of being elected, as a joke. However, the more thoughtful element among the voters prevailed.

A two story, frame building, lengthwise with King Street, built in the '30's. After street grading this had to be raised so that what had before been the ground floor became the cellar or basement.

A house occupied by Wm. Hawke,-known as Bill Hawke- a mason. A stout, easy-going man. His wife was in the habit of standing in the door way, with white lace cap, smoking a clay pipe. The east end of this building was occupied by Winters, a hatter, the first hat maker in Berlin. He made the old style, broad brim, Mennonite hats in fashion up to about 1845. At the corner of Scott stood a brick building of good size with gable toward King Street, used to stable the first fire teams for a number of years. Later John Wagner had a waggon shop above and George Ward a blacksmith shop underneath. Scott Street was, however, not opened until many years later.

A one and one-half story building rough cast, gable facing King St., occupied by H. W. Peterson, who began publishing the "Canada Museum", in 1835 and so continued until 1840 when he went to Guelph as first Registrar of the County of Wellington. This was the first newspaper published in Waterloo County.

Jacob Hailer's house, a one and one-half story, frame building with porch along the front partly enclosed by lattice work. In this house was born in 1834, Catherine Hailer, who married Louis Breithaupt. She is said to have been the first child born in Berlin of parents who came from Germany. Hailer's barn was some distance back from the street and next along on the street front was his shop where he manufactured spinning wheels, etc., and chairs which had a large distribution. Hailer was an expert wood turner. He had two foot-power lathes and a number of German assistants from time to time, continuing his shop for about 40 years.

A two story frame building lengthwise with King Street, erected by Dr. John Scott. He had a drug store with two good-sized windows at the front. On the east gable of the building was a sign, "Med. Hall" in large letters. The sign was legible long after Dr. Scott's death. The doctor pursued his practice on horseback for which he used three horses. He was the first medical practitioner in Berlin, coming in 1834, at the time of the cholera epidemic. For a few years before he was married he boarded at the Gaukel Hotel. His later house, after the one described, is still standing on Weber Street at the rear of the Kitchener Public Library.

The old Scott house on King Street was later occupied by Franz Martin who kept a saloon. Martin had a musical family, with the zither as their principal instrument, which all the children could play.

A one and one-half story, frame building, painted, occupied by Anslm Wagner, a potter.

A brick building 1 ½ story lengthwise with King Street, the west end of which was John Eby's drug store, the rest of the building being his dwelling. This was the first regular drug store in Berlin.

A brick building with a frame extension in the rear used by David Eby as a pump shop. Part of the brick building is still standing, the rest having been cut olT for the opening of Eby Street North.

A one story hip roof brick cottage occupied by Geo. Eby, a Notary, who came to Canada in 1804. He died in this house. A considerable fish story is told of how he followed a sturgeon in the Conestoga River, part of Grand River, and finally speared it.

A one and one-half story building, probably rough cast, occupied by Hy. Wurm, a carpenter employed at the Simpson factory.

A two story brick building painted red occupied by Henry S. Huber.'

A handsome brick building, two story, with veranda along the front and ground floor considerably above the street level, with broad steps, the width of the building, leading to it, was built in 1850. Some time later it was occupied by Casper Heller and known as the Royal Exchange hotel. Following the old custom its swinging sign had "Last Chance" on the side toward the village and "First Chance" outward, referring to liquid refreshments. Heller kept a good hotel and had also a large shed and ham next east of the hotel.

On the corner a steam grist mill was erected, about 1860. Louis Seyler, a German, was the miller. The custom was for farmers to bring in their wheat to have it ground, getting in return flour, bran and middlings, the miller retaining his toll. Later Lehnen & Shelly operated this mill.

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

Catharine married Mayor Philip Ludwig "Louis" Breithaupt 8 Feb 1853, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Philip (son of Liborius Breithaupt and Catherine Goetze) was born 8 Nov 1827, Allendorf, Kurhessen, Germany; died 3 Jul 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Harriet Brehler
• Name: Harriet Hailer
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-79459
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1880, Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan, United States

Harriet — Jacob L. Brehler. Jacob was born 5 Nov 1829, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died 25 Oct 1907, Mount Clemens, Macomb, Michigan, United States; was buried , Clinton Grove Cemetery, Clinton Township, Macomb Co., Michigan. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Marian Burckley
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-79460

Marian — Jacob H. Burckley. Jacob was born 22 Jun 1836, Utica, Oneida, New York, United States; died 8 Jan 1912, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Carolina H. Brehler
• Name: Carolina H. Goetz
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95845
• Residence: 1862, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; --
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Carolina — Brehler. was born Abt 1843; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Carolina married William Henry Goetz 7 Oct 1862, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. William (son of J. C. Goetz and T.) was born 11 Feb 1835, , Germany; died 4 Mar 1871, Atlantic Ocean; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-79462
• Occupation: 1883; merchant
• Residence: 1883, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Jacob married Louisa Knell 21 Nov 1883, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Louisa (daughter of Henry Knell and Henrietta Kranz) was born 12 Oct 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was christened 8 May 1859, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 23 Dec 1933, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Jacob — Catharina Rohrbach. Catharina was born 3 Aug 1848; died 21 Mar 1882, , New York State, USA; was buried , Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, Middle Village, Queens, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Interesting: story, religion
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-58845
• Historic Building: 1875, 41 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Salesman
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist

Notes:

From : A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans MEYER and Other Pioneers Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated with Eighty-seven Portraits and Other Illustrations Repository: Call Number: R929.2 M613 Media: Book (page 122-124)...

His father, Rev. Jacob Wagner, was a native of Germany, born at Siefersheim, near Bingen on the Rhine, Hessen. He emigrated with his parents in 1840 and settled in the vicinity of Lyons, N. Y., where he was employed with his father, Henry Wagner, at farming and the coopers' trade, until brought to the Saviour by that indefatigable pioneer missionary, Rev. Joseph Harlacher, and began preaching at the age of 18, serving very important fields in the state of New York and Canada. He died in Berlin, Ont., April 19, 1858. His wife Margaret (nee Hailer) born upon Canadian soil, but of German descent, her father being from Wilfredingen, Baden, and her mother from Muhlhausen, Alsace, were the first German born settlers at Berlin, Ont., where they arrived in 1831. Several years after the death of her husband Mrs. Wagner married one Daniel Bean, a country school teacher, and Lewis Henry received a good common school education. An uncle after whom he was named, and his grandfather Jacob Hailer, of Berlin, took quite an interest in the lad, and with a view of giving him a better education offered him a home in their families, which he accepted, and when 13 years old left his mother's home to attend the Central school at Berlin. Three years later he passed the examination and attended the High school, continuing several years. An idea to get into business life possessed him, so he entered the employ of his uncle, Louis Breithaupt, as an apprentice tanner, remaining with him two years, also learning the trade of leather belt making during that time. The desire for still better educational attainments now again made themselves strongly felt, and he received permission to attend Northwestern College, an institution of the Evangelical Association at Naperville, Ill., where he remained three years, after which, in the Summer of 1878, he again entered the employ of his uncle as clerk in the leather and shoe findings department, and later as bookkeeper and traveling salesman.

Quite early in life impressions of a higher calling, that to which his sainted father sacrificed his energies and life, made themselves felt, but not until the Winter and Spring of 1882 would he consent to give it any attention. In his 12th year he was received into church fellowship on profession of faith, and as often as he lived up to the inner promptings of love and duty to God and man something seemed to tell him in words unheard by others yet keenly felt by himself, "you are not where God wants you." Being fond of business and not desiring the staid realities of an itinerant preacher's life, he would, for the time being, drown these inner promptings in the interests of his employments and at times even in actual folly. But now the thought would not leave him, and, after many prayers and consultations, he decided to apply to his class for recommendation to preach, which was freely given him. At this time he was holding the important offices of Sunday school superintendent and exhorter in the Evangelical church at Berlin. A few weeks later the Canada Conference of the Evangelical Association met at St. Jacobs, Ont., who unanimously granted him his license, received him into the itineracy and appointed him assistant to his former pastor, Rev. J. J. Klipphardt, at Sebringville. The next year he was given Gainsboro Mission, during which time he built and secured payment for a new church at Bismark and had an encouraging revival on the charge. In 1884 he was sent to Hespeler, having been ordained deacon by his conference just previously. About this time he was married to Mary Staebler. At the conference session of 1886 he passed all the examinations and completed the full course of study creditably, was ordained an elder and admitted into full connection in the conference. In 1887 he was assigned to Blenheim Circuit, where his wife died two weeks after their arrival, leaving an infant son.

Mr. Wagner's health becoming somewhat broken down, by the kindness of some friends in the Summer of 1888, he was privileged to make a few months tour to Europe, visiting England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy, which quite restored him. In the Spring of 1889 his conference sent him to Campden station, where he served three years with much favor and success. It was while here that he was married, on July 4, 1889, to Sarah Lodema, eldest daughter of Jacob S. Moyer. Another move in 1892 brought them to their present field of labor, Stratford, Ont. Mr. Wagner has for eight years held the office of conference missionary treasurer. He is in the prime of life, having just passed his 38th birthday. His future is full of prospects, bright and encouraging.

Historic Building:
Louis Henry Wagner was the first owner of this 2 story brick house. It was possibly built for Louis Breithaupt. In 1978 is was listed as being in fair condition and was much altered from the original. Stucco was added later.

Louis married Sarah Lodema Moyer 4 Jul 1889, Campden, Clinton Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario. Sarah was born 22 Sep 1861, Clinton Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario; died 1941; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Louis — Mary Staebler. Mary was born CALC 14 Feb 1859, Of, Plattsville, Oxford Co., Ontario; died 10 May 1887, Plattsville, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34773

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00008-985

Notes:

Rev. Eusebius H. Bean, "was born at New Dundee, Ontario, February 21st, 1863. His boyhood days were spent on the farm, and when quite young he was converted to the Lord. He joined himself with the Evangelical body and in 1889 he entered the ministry. The conference had him placed on the Rockingham field of labor for the years 1889-90. In 1891 he was stationed at Dashwood, Hay Township, Huron County. For 1892-93 he was stationed in Alborough, Elgin County, and in 1894 he was stationed on the Hespeler field of labor where he is still working for his Master. In spite of the opposition received from such who should have supported and encouraged him in his services in the Lord's vineyard, he is making great progress as a public speaker, and has a natural gift of making friends wherever he is placed by the conference. He was married to Eliza Wallace who died in April, 1893, leaving one son VII Eusebius P. Wallace. In September, 1894, he was again married to Annie Gieske."


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.].

Eusebius — Elizabeth Wallace. Elizabeth was born Abt 1863, , Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada; died Apr 1893. [Group Sheet]

Eusebius married Annie Gieske Sep 1894. Annie was born Abt 1863, of, Ontario; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Euphemia Schmidt
• Eby ID Number: 00008-986
• Residence: 1885, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Euphemia Bean, "was born at Freeport, Waterloo County, June 27th, 1865. She is married to Henry N. Schmidt, a miller. They reside at Watertown, South Dakota, U.S. they have a family of four 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.].

Euphemia married Henry N. Schmidt 18 Nov 1885, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada. Henry (son of John Schmidt and Anne E.) was born 1862, North Easthope Twp., Perth Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Emma May Haist
• Eby ID Number: 00008-987
• Residence: 1893, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States

Notes:

Emma May Bean, "was born at Dashwood, Huron County, Ontario, December 2nd, 1867. She is married to Justus Haist, an autographer, and resides in Buffalo, N.Y. 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.].

Emma married Gustavius A. Haist 20 Jun 1894, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Gustavius (son of Michael Haist and Julia Schaefer) was born 1866, , USA; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00008-988
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Real Estate Agent & Miller
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Sawyer, Furniture Factory
• Residence: 1921, 16 Pequegnat Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Samuel U. Bean, "was born near Bright, Oxford County, May 28th, 1870. He is a a miller by trade and resides in Chesley, Ontario. He is married to Mary Filsinger and has a family of two children, namely: VII Gordon and a son whose name has not been received."


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.].

Samuel — Mary Ann Filsinger. Mary (daughter of Fritz "Frederick" Filsinger and Sarah Musselman) was born 31 Jul 1870, , Ontario, Canada; died 22 Sep 1944; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-337192
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Bookkeeper
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00008-989

Notes:

Jacob Wesley Bean, "was born near Bright, Oxford County, June 5th, 1873. He was book-keeper in the Gas Office, Berlin, until September, 1894, when he left and went to Napierville, Illinois, where he is attending college, preparing himself for the ministry."

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.].y

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The death of Rev. Jacob Wesley Bean, 68, widely-known retired United Church minister, occurred at the family residence, College Avenue, Simcoe, on Sunday following an illness of several months. Deceased was born in Oxford County and in 1898 he received his first charge in the ministry, that of an assistant pastor with the Selkirk Evangelical Church. Since that time he had held charges at Rockingham, Parry Sound, Wetaskiwin, Regina, Welland County, Bartonville, Oxford County, Wentworth County, Hepworth, Stevensville,Townsend circuit and Kelvin. He retired in June 1941.

Surviving are his wife, the former Florence Smith, two daughters, Mrs. R.D. Kerman of St. Thomas, Miss Helen I. at home, and a son Daniel N. of Niagara Falls, two sisters, Mrs. R. B.Dickert of Indian Head, Ssk., and Mrs. E. M. Haist of Kitchener, and two brothers, Rev. E. H. Bean ofMorriston and S. U. Bean of Kitchener. A half brother, L. H. Wagner of Kitchener also survives...Mount Elgin Cemetery.

obit. of Tues., March 10, 1942:

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Monkton Times, (July 17, 1919):

"Boy Electrocuted"

Stanley Bean,aged 10 years, eldest son of Rev. J. W. Bean, Methodist minister at Mt.Elgin, Oxford County, and brother of Rev. E.H. Bean of Milverton, metwith a tragic end on Thursday, July 10th. It appears the little fellow had gone fishing and was on his way home when a dead cow by the roadside attracted his attention. The windstorm had torn a limb off a tree and the broken end of the hydro wire was lying on the ground, the cow evidently coming in contact with it was killed. Stanley not observing it must have touched it, as his shoe was burned. When discovered, the little fellow's clothing had almost entirely been burned off and parts of his body charred. The sad event has cast a gloom over the community. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon and was very largely attended, friends and relatives from a distance being present from Kitchener, Woodstock, Hamilton, St. George, Millgrove and other points. Rev. E.H. Bean and A.C. Clemens of Milverton attended the funeral."

- his father filed a lawsuit, but whether he won or lost in not yet known:

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Monkton Times, Nov. 27, 1919:

"Rev. J. W. Bean, Methodist minister of Dereham Centre, in the Township of Dereham is suing the township for alleged negligence of the municipal corporation, which, he contends, resulted in the death of his son, Stanley Bean, aged 10 years, on July10th last, by reason of coming in contact with an electric wire which had fallen on the side of the road. The plaintiff is a brother of Rev. E.H.Bean of Milverton."

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BEAN, J. WESLEY

Widely known United Church retired minister, at the family residence at Simcoe, in his 69^th year. He was born in Oxford County, near Bright, on June 5, 1873, son of the late Daniel Bean and Margaret Heiler. In 1898, Rev. Bean received his first charge, assistant pastor with the Selkirk Evangelical Church and a short time later, transferred to Rockingham, then Parry Sound, then Morriston, following which he was called to Wetaskiwin and Regina, SK. Returning to Welland, he went to Bartonville Methodist Church and was pastor in Halton and Wentworth Counties. Later, he was called to Oxford, after which he was four years at York. In 1926, he was made leader and prelate in Saskatchewan for one year, returning to accept a charge in Hepworth, Stevensville and Townsend circuit (Mount Zion and Hartford United Churches). In 1935, he was called to Kelvin Church, which was his last pastorate, retiring in June 194?, as he was in poor health. Surviving are his wife, Florence Smith; two daughters and one son, Margaret (Mrs. R. Kerman) of St. Thomas; Miss Helen Bean of Simcoe; and Daniel N. Bean of Niagara Falls, ON; one grand-daughter, Bonnie Rose Bean; three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. R. B. Dickert of Indian Head, SK; Mrs. E. M. Haist of Buffalo; Mrs. A. C. Bender of Kitchener; Rev. E. H. Bean of Morriston; S. U. Bean of Kitchener; and one half-brother, L. H. Wagner of Kitchener. A brief service was held at the MacGregor Funeral Home in Simcoe on Wednesday, March 11, 1942 at 1: 30, then to Mount Elgin United Church, where service was conducted at 2, with interment in Mount Elgin Cemetery.


A Celebration of Lives Obituaries of Puslinch Township, Wellington Co., Ontario Vol 1, Anna Jackson & Marjorie Clark
Used with kind permission of Marjorie Clark

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-337193
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• Name: Alma Bean
• Name: Margaret Otilla Alma Bender
• Name: Margaret Otilla Alma Bender
• Eby ID Number: 00008-990
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Church
• Residence: 1921, 113 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Margaret Otilla Alma Bean, "was born near Bright, Oxford County, April 6th, 1876. She is unmarried and resides with her mother in Berlin, Ontario."

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.].

Margaret married Alfred C. Bender 7 Nov 1907, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Alfred (son of George Jacob "Jacob" Bender and Katharina "Catherine" Fuerstenberger) was born 25 Oct 1866, Eschelbach, , Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died 1950; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Margaret — Alfred C. Bender. Alfred was born 25 Oct 1866; died 1950; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Nationality: , Canada
• Name: L. J. Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: 00030-2327.1
• Immigration: 1855, , Canada
• Immigration: 1861, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Historic Building: 1874, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Sonneck House
• Naturalization: 1875, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manager
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; tanner and leather merchant
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Elected Office: 1882, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor, Deputy Reeve, Reeve, Warden
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner - Eagle Tannery
• Business: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Breithaupt Leather Co.
• Public Service: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Council of the Baord of Trade
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Leather
• Residence: 1911, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Employer: 1912, Ecomonical Fire Insurance Company, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; director of Economical Fire Insurance Company
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner, ? Leather
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Notes:

Louis J. Breithaupt, Mayor 1888-9.

Mr. Louis J. Breithaupt, eldest son of the late Louis Breithaupt occupied the mayor's chair with acceptance in 1888-1889. Previous to gaining this honor, he served as councillor, deputy-reeve and reeve. For some years he was a member of the county council and during the time, was chosen warden of the county. During his public career, he has served on the School Board, of which he became chairman. Also was a member of the Local Legislature in 1900-2. As mayor his policy was: Economy with Progress. He is a director of both the Economical Fire Insurance Co. and the Mutual Life Ass. Co. of Canada. Mr. Breithaupt is an useful citizen.


Official souvenir of the celebration of cityhood, July 17th 1912, Berlin, Ontario, The German Printing and Publishing Co

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LOUIS JACOB BREITHAUPT.

Louis Jacob Breithaupt, whose business history forms an integral chapter in the commercial and industrial development of Berlin, was born in Buffalo, New York, March 3, 1855, his parents being Louis and Catherine (Hailer) Breithaupt. The father, a native of Hessen, Germany, brought his family from the United States to Canada during the early boyhood of his eldest son, Louis J. Breithaupt, who was educated at Berlin and Toronto, after which he joined his father in business in the former city, learning the trade of a tanner. He was subsequently at different times salesman, bookkeeper and commercial traveler for the house, and upon the death of his father in 1880 he became a member and acting manager of the firm of Louis Breithaupt & Company. In 1890 the business was re-organized as a joint stock company, under the style of The Breithaupt Leather Company, Limited, having extensive tanneries at Berlin, Penetanguishene and Listowel, with head offices at Berlin. Mr. Breithaupt is now president of the company, which is operating extensively in the tanning business and as dealers in leather, being one of the largest houses of its kind in Canada. The trade has been developed along substantial and healthful lines, through a ready recognition of conditions in the business world, through close application and through unfaltering perseverance. The enterprise was established on a safe, conservative basis, and in the conduct of the business most systematic methods are followed, while the relations with the patrons are based upon a high standard of commercial ethics.

While the tanning and leather business occupies most of Mr. Breit- haupt 's time and attention, he has also extended his efforts to other fields of activity and is now president of the Ontario Bark Company, Limited, while in former years he was president of the Berlin Gas, Electric Light & Power Company. He was also formerly connected with the Berlin & Waterloo Street Railway Co., and is now a director of the Berlin & Bridgeport Street Railway Co. He was formerly first vice-president of The Berlin Rubber Co., Limited, and has been for many years a director of the Economical Fire Insurance Co. of Berlin ; is president of the North Waterloo Agricultural Society.

The city has benefited by interests which have been promoted by him aside from those of a strictly business character. He has been chairman of the Berlin school board, and the cause of education has found in him a stalwart champion, and he is now chairman of the German School Society of Berlin. Although politically somewhat independent, believing that on general principles the interests of the country should precede that of any party, he represented the riding of North Waterloo in the Ontario Legislature as a supporter of the Liberal government from the year 1900 to 1902. He was likewise president of the Berlin Board of Trade and is a member of the Park Board, of which he is now the chairman, and of which board he has been a member continually since its inception in 1893. No movement or measure for the welfare and progress of the city along material, intellectual and moral lines fails to receive his endorsement and co-operation. He was for several years president of the Young Men's Christian Association and was one of the first trustees of the Berlin-Waterloo Hospital, his broad humanitarianism and ready sympathy finding expression in his efforts along those lines. For a number of years he served as a member of the Waterloo county council, during the year 1898 he was warden of the county and for seven years he was a member of the Berlin town council, serving as councillor, deputy reeve and reeve, while in 1888 and 1889 he served as mayor of the city.

In 1881 Mr. Breithaupt was married to Miss Emma Alvarene, the second daughter of Benjamin Devitt, formerly mayor of Waterloo. Their union has been blessed with a family of eight children: Evelyn, Lillian, Edna, Rose, Louis, William Walter, Catharine and Paul. Mr. Breithaupt is in religious faith connected with the Evangelical Association, and has reared his family in that belief. He has been for many years a member of the board of trustees of Zion Evangelical Church. He is a man of domestic taste, devoted to the welfare and happiness of his wife and children, and in citizenship he stands for all that is progressive and beneficial, and in business life for all that is honorable. He has been to a great extent the architect of his own fortune and has builded wisely and well. A man of sound judgment, he has never arrived quickly at conclusions, but when once his mind is made up as to what is the right course nothing can deter him from pursuing it. He possesses excellent executive and business ability, combined with a resistless energy and resolute purpose, and while he has gained a handsome competence he has never selfishly used this for his own interests only, but has done what he could to promote the welfare of the city and to ameliorate hard conditions of life for the unfortunate. He recognizes fully man's obligation to his fellowmen and throughout his life has been actuated by high and honorable principles.


A History of Ontario: its resources and development

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LOUIS J. BREITHAUPT, Berlin, Ont., was born in 1855 in Buffalo, N.Y., from whence he came to Canada. His father was very prominent in business and municipal circles, and mayor of Berlin at the time of his death in 1880. Mr. Breithaupt was married in 1881 to Emma Alvarene, daughter of ex-Mayor Devitt, of Waterloo, Ont. He was educated at Berlin and Toronto, and is now engaged in the tanning business, (which trade he learnt practically), being president of the Breithaupt Leather Company Limited, who have extensive establishments in Berlin and Penetanguishene, Ont. He was seven years a member of the town Council, three years in the County Council, and two years mayor--being the youngest mayor Berlin has had. He is president of the Ontario Bark Company Limited, of the Berlin Gas Company, and is also connected with other manufacturing enterprises in Berlin. He is a school trustee, and has recently been unanimously elected president of the Board of Trade. Mr. Breithaupt is an active member of the German Evangelical Church, and is ever ready to promote its welfare.

The Canadian Album - Men of Canada or Success by Example (Brantford, Ontario, Canada: Bradley Garretson & Co., 1891)

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In Death Of L.J. Breithaupt - Kitchener - Former mayor, reeve and deputy reeve of Berlin, now Kitchener, and former M.L.A. for North Waterloo, Louis J. Breithaupt passed away at St. Petersburg, Fla., early Monday Morning. Mr. Breithaupt, who only a few days ago, celebrated his 84th birthday, was president of the Breithaupt Leather Co., for many years. His death came as the result of bronchial pneumonia which he contracted, shortly after fracturing his arm in a fall about three weeks ago. He had spent the winter in Florida. In addition to being active in philanthropic and political fields, the deceased was a leader in Board of Trade operations, being a former president of the organization, here. Mr. Breithaupt spent many years as a member of the Toronto Board of Trade, and for some time was president of the tanners section of that body. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1855, he was a son of the late Louis Breithaupt, who was the fourth mayor of Berlin. His mother was the former Catherine Hailer. His own civic career advanced rapidly, and in 1888, at the age of 33, he served as mayor of Berlin. He was again chief magistrate in the following year. In 1900, he was elected to represent the constituency of North Waterloo in the Legislature, running on a Liberal ticket, and retired from that position in 1903. Mr. Breithaupt was Warden of Waterloo County in 1989. His long service in civic affairs included terms as chairman of the board of park management, chairman of the public school board, president of the Kitchener Y.M.C.A., member of the first Kitchener-Waterloo hospital board. During the Great War, he served as president of the Patriotic Fund. Mr. Breithaupt is survived by three sons and fi e daughters, former Mayor L.O. Breithaupt, managing director of the Breithaupt Leather Co., and president of the Kitchener board of trade; William Breithaupt, Breithaupt, both of Toronto; Mrs. J. R. Parry, Hamilton, the Misses E. Lillian Breithaupt and Edna Breithaupt at home, Mrs. H. S. Clark, Scarboro, and Mrs. A. V. Bennett, Fitchburg, Mass. Also surviving are three brothers W. H. Breithaupt, John C. Breithaupt and A. L. Breithaupt, and two sisters, Mrs. C. Augustine and Mrs. A. Bauman, all of Kitchener. His wife predeceased him in 1925. She was the former Emma Devitt.

The Waterloo Chronicle Mar 10 1939 pg 3

Historic Building:
Named "Sonneck" this house was built in 1874 as a leased residence by Louis Brethaupt. Two stories and made of brick it is one of the last homes in Kitchener, owned by Louis Breithaupt's eldest son, Louis Jacob and was purchased upon his marriage. Strong Italianate features reflect Breihaupt's American architectural background. It contained some of best stained glass in the city. In 1978 it was recorded as being in very poor condition.

Elected Office:
Municipality Berlin; 1st Div
Years on local council: Councillor 1882-83 ; D Reeve 1885-86; Reeve 1887; Mayor 1888-89
Years on Waterloo County Council: 1885 1886 1887 1897 1898 Warden 1899 1900

Louis married Emma Alvarena Devitt Apr 1881. Emma (daughter of Mayor Benjamin Devitt and Nancy Lewis Bowman) was born 16 Oct 1860, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 12 Jun 1925, Belmont, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154309221
• Interesting: life, engineer, history, business, railway
• Interesting: story, railway, business, honoured
• Name: W. H. Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138754
• Immigration: 1861, , Canada
• Immigration: 1862, , Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Naturalization: 1872, , Canada
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Civil Engineer
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin & Waterloo Street Rail co. - President
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Engineer (Civil)
• Residence: 1911, 64 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Engineer, Civil
• Residence: 1921, 64 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

William Henry Breithaupt, C. E., (Berlin, Ontario,) son of Louis and Catherine (Hailer) Breithaupt, was born in Buffalo, N. Y., January 25th, 1857. Prepared at High School, Berlin, Ontario, and at North Western College, Naperville, Ill., entering the Institute in September, 1877. Took a position on construction work on the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad August, 1881, working mainly on West Point tunnel. Private business kept him at Berlin, Ont., during 1882. Appointed bridge inspector for Pennsylvania railroad company, January, 1883, and in October, 1883, assistant engineer in the office of C. Shaler Smith, of St. Louis. In 1886, of the firm of Breithaupt & Allen, civil engineers and specialty, iron and steel structures. Member of the Rensselaer Society of Engineers. P. O. address, Kansas City, Mo

Biographical record of the officers and graduates of the Rensselaer polytechnic institute, 1824-1886, W.H. Young, 1887

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William Henry Breithaupt, an extremely accomplished civil engineer, was a builder of railway bridges on this continent and the author of many technical papers.

Born in Buffalo in 1857 to Louis and Catherine Breithaupt (later citizens of Berlin), he took up residence here in 1900 and promoted the family interests - the Berlin and Waterloo Railway, and the Berlin Gas Works - and built a rail line to Bridgeport. First chairman of the City Planning Commission, he brought in a famous New York town planning expert for consultation. He visited the Carnegie Foundation in New York, successfully seeking funds for the Berlin Library on three occasions.

Breithaupt served as president of the Ontario Historical Society, was first president of the Waterloo Historical Society and a founder of the Waterloo County Pioneers' Memorial Association that erected the Pioneers' Memorial Tower near Preston. The first to propose flood control, Breithaupt also pioneered Grand River Conservation.

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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Kitchener Pioneer, W. H. Breithaupt Buried; Died in 88th Year

KITCHENER-A pioneer of Kitchener and a recognized authority on historical matters, William H. Breithaupt, C.E., was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery here, today. Mr. Breithaupt, who was 87, died in K-W Hospital a few days after he fell on a street near his home on Margaret Ave.

Born in Buffalo, N.Y., he was the son of the late Louis and Catherine Hailer Breithaupt. He attended Zion Evangelical Church.

Mr. Breithaupt was very prominent in the development of Kitchener, assisting in promotion of the gas works, the electric street railway which succeeded horse-drawn cars which connected Kitchener and Waterloo and nearby Bridgeport. He was also instrumental in. establishing the Grand River Golf club, the first club of its type in this district.

Deceased was also very active in lirecting modernization of the Kitchener public library and was named the first president of the Waterloo county historical society when it was first founded by the Berlin Library Board in 1912. He was an accepted authority on the history of Waterloo county and for wo years, served as president of the Ontario historical society.

During his long and untiring life, Mr. Breithaupt personally made a complete survey of the Grand River on foot, walking from one end of it to the other, and one of the dreams of his life was fulfilled in 1942 when the Grand Valley Dam at Lake Belwood, near Fergus, was formally opened by the premier of Ontario.

A member of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Mr. Breithaupt was the author of numerous technical papers, including: History of the Grand Trunk Railway and others. He was a life member of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers. Fellow of the American Geographical Society, and of Rigma (golden key) of American colleges.

Besides his wife, Mr. Breithaupt is survived by one son, Sqdn.-Ldr. Philip William, R.A.F.. in the Middle East, and two daughters, Mrs. E. S. Sargeant and Mrs. H. G. S. Dinsmore, both of Toronto; two sisters, Mrs. Caroline Augustine. Mrs. Melvina Bauman; two brothers. John C. and Albert J. all of Kitchener.

Five grandsons and one grand- daughter, all of Toronto, also survive.

Waterloo Chronicle, 4 Feb 1944, p. 1

Residence:
KITCHENER - A downtown developer has plans to build a 112-unit apartment complex on vacant land that was once the site of W.H. Breithaupt's mansion.

Vive Development Corp. is proposing to build a six-storey, 94-unit apartment building on land fronting Victoria Street North, and a 2 ½-storey 18-unit building on the site of the former mansion at 64 Margaret Ave.

The smaller building along Margaret Avenue would be built in a style reminiscent of the mansion that once stood there, said Vanessa Hicks, a heritage planner hired by Vive. The stucco and limestone building would be designed to look like a large home from the street and would have a roofline and tall, eight-paned windows reminiscent of those on the original Breithaupt mansion, which was demolished in 2003.

Hicks is also recommending the developer put up a plaque explaining the history of the site and the reasons the building is built in that architectural style.

"Someone walking by might easily recognize that building as an interpretation of what the original house would have looked like," she said in a presentation this week to Kitchener's heritage committee.

The larger building on Victoria is a more modern design. Four homes, from 217 to 229 Victoria St. N., will be demolished to make way for the six-storey building.....

Apartments planned for former Breithaupt mansion site in Kitchener. (2017). Therecord.com. Retrieved 9 April 2017, from https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7228229-apartments-planned-for-former-breithaupt-mansion-site-in-kitchener/

William — Martha Cunningham Murphy. Martha was born 24 Jul 1865, , Quebec, Canada; died 1950, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Misfortune: lost eye
• Name: J. C. Breithaupt
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97689P
• Immigration: 1862, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1864, , Ontario, Canada
• Historic Building: 1870, 42 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Elected Office: 1890, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor, Deputy Reeve, Reeve
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1892, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; merchant
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Tanner Manager
• Occupation: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Breithaupt Leather Co - Secretary
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Directory: 1912, 160 Adam St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Leather
• Residence: 1921, 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

J. C. Breithaupt, Mayor, 1896-7.

Mr. J. C. Breithaupt entered the council in 1890 and continued in it until 1891. He was elected first deputy-reeve in 1893, and reeve in 1894. His services were appreciated and he was elected mayor in 1896 and re-elected the following year. He went back as a councillor and served until 1898, during which time the water-works were purchased by a committee of which he was a member. In 1899, he was elected a member of the first water board and has remained on it ever since. During his terms as mayor, the new G. T. R. depot was erected and Victoria Park opened. Mr. Breithaupt's public services are invaluable.


Official souvenir of the celebration of cityhood, July 17th 1912, Berlin, Ontario, The German Printing and Publishing Co

Historic Building:
Built in 1870-1875. The original owner was John C. Breithaupt. A two story brick building in 1978 it was listed in fair condition. Apparently by 2009 it has been demolished.

Elected Office:
Municipality BerlinYears on local council: Councillor 1890-91, 1898; Deputy Reeve 1893; Reeve 1894; Mayor 1896-97
Years on Waterloo County Council 1893 1894

John married Caroline Catharine "Carrie" Anthes 27 Jan 1892, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Caroline (daughter of John Schmidt Anthes and Lydia Catherine Herlan) was born 29 Sep 1868, , Ontario, Canada; died 18 May 1963, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Barbara Breithaupt
• Name: Caroline Margaret Barbara "Barbara" Augustine
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138756
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Residence: 1887, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1950, 25 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Residence:
The house was built at the turn of the 20th Century for Albert Augustine and Caroline Breithaupt, whose family was among the pioneers of the tanning industry in Kitchener.

Caroline married Albert Benjamin Augustine 3 Aug 1887, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Albert was born 6 Mar 1859, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA; died 12 Apr 1909, Racine, Racine, Wisconsin, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187291988
• Name: Melvina Emilia Bauman
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97540
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Mrs. Melvin E. Baumann

Mrs. Melvina E. Bauman, 90, died Sunday at her home, 11 Margaret Ave., following a lengthy illness. Born Feb. 8, 1864, in Kitchener, she was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Louis Breithaupt.

She was a member of Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church and the last charter member of the Women's Association of that church.
A Bible school teacher for many years, she was also a former secretary-treasurer of the K-W Hospital Auxiliary for years, former treasurer of the ladies auxiliary of Freeport Sanatorium and former treasurer of the Waterloo Red Cross Society.

Her husband, Dr. A. Franklin Baumann, died Nov. 25, 1918.

A son, Edward F. and a brother, Albert L. Breithaupt of Kitchener, survive.

The body is at the Ratz-Bechtel Funerai Home where the funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Rev. F M. Faist, pastor of Zion Evangelical UB Church, will officiate.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 05 Apr 1954, Mon Page 5

Melvina — Dr. Amos Frank Bauman. Amos (son of Bauman, son of Moses S. Bauman and Susannah Clemens) was born 29 Sep 1857, Bloomingdale, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 25 Nov 1918, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Carl Breitaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138758
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Illegible
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Website: 2009

Notes:

BREITHAUPT, EZRA CARL, engineer and businessman; b. 19 Feb. 1866 in Berlin (Kitchener), Upper Canada, sixth of ten children of Louis Breithaupt, a tanner, and Catharine Hailer; d. there unmarried 27 Jan. 1897.

Ezra Carl Breithaupt's father, originally from Germany, was living in Buffalo, N.Y., by 1853, when he married Catharine Hailer, the daughter of German immigrants to Berlin, Upper Canada. A fifth-generation tanner, he had inherited his father's interest in a tannery in Buffalo, but around 1857 he set up another in Berlin and in 1861 moved his family and his firm there. The family became active in Zion Evangelical Church and in local business and politics. At the time of his death in 1880, Louis was mayor of Berlin. His elder sons were to continue the leather business and would be involved in establishing the Berlin Gas Company around 1883.

Ezra Carl Breithaupt (usually known as Carl)attended public and high schools in his native town, and from 1883 to 1887 took a general course at the evangelical North-Western College in Naperville, Ill. For several years afterwards, he had health problems, possibly respiratory in nature, which led him to winter with the family physician, Dr David Sovereign Bowlby, in Bermuda and in Texas. Breithaupt's choice of profession was probably influenced by his family's involvement in the Berlin Gas Company. In the autumn of 1890 he began the two-year course in applied electricity offered at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore since 1886. He was certificated in applied electricity in 1892.

On his return to Berlin, Breithaupt entered the Breithaupt Leather Company, of which he became a director, and the Berlin Gas Company, in which he combined professional and family interests. By 1892 he owned more than $2,000 in shares in Berlin Gas and about then became its manager. The firm began generating electricity, and in 1895, with power from Berlin Gas, Breithaupt converted two horse-drawn streetcars owned by the Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Company to electric traction; its power also lit eight arc street lamps in Waterloo. Between July 1895 and February 1896, Breithaupt, his brother William Henry, and his sister Melvina Emilia acquired more than $22,000 of the $40,000 capital of the street railway company, and Carl soon became its president. He expanded both firms, building a large gas tank and extensive additions to the powerhouse and plant for Berlin Gas and installing new rails and two new electric cars for the street railway.

Like his elder brothers, Carl had a place in the local community. Louis Jacob was mayor of Berlin in 1888-89, and John Christian in 1896-97; both served as presidents of the board of trade, Louis Jacob in 1891 and John Christian in 1895. Carl was a member of the board's financial committee in 1893, was elected its vice-president the following year, and in 1896 sat on its council. Through these years he also acted as consulting engineer in various parts of Canada and published articles on Canadian electrical engineering in American journals. A member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, he belonged to the Canadian Electrical Association (formed in 1889), served on its executive, and in June 1896 was chosen its second vice-president. His papers were frequently read at the meetings of the association.

In January 1897, at the age of 30, Breithaupt died from injuries sustained in an explosion in the new gas tank he had built for Berlin Gas. His mother donated a pipe-organ to Zion Evangelical Church in memory of her husband and Carl, who had been choirmaster and a Sunday school teacher there. She also gave $1,000 of Carl's estate to Berlin-Waterloo Hospital, which installed a window in his memory.


Johns Hopkins Univ. Arch. (Baltimore, Md.), Registrar's records, E. C. Breithaupt student file, including transcript from North-Western College (Napierville, Ill.), 11 Feb. 1889. Kitchener Chamber of Commerce (Kitchener, Ont.), Board of Trade, minute-books; Chamber of Commerce records. Kitchener Public Library, Rare Books Dept., Berlin and Waterloo Street Railway Company, stock-book; Berlin Gas Company, stock-book. Univ. of Waterloo Arch. (Waterloo, Ont.), L. J. Breithaupt, diaries, 1867-1927; Breithaupt family photographs. Zion Evangelical Church (Kitchener), Reg. of baptisms, marriages, and burials. "The late E. Carl Breithaupt," Canadian Engineer (Toronto), 4 (1896-97): 285 (includes photograph). Berliner Journal (Berlin (Kitchener]), 8 March 1866. Daily Record (Berlin), 27, 29-30 Jan. 1897. Berlin, Canada: a self-portrait of Kitchener, Ontario, before World War One . . . , ed. Paul Tiessen (St Jacobs, Ont., 1979). [W. H. Breithaupt], Sketch of the life of Catharine Breithaupt, her family and times (Berlin, 1911; copy at Kitchener Public Library, Rare Books Dept.). John English and Kenneth McLaughlin, Kitchener: an illustrated history (Waterloo, 1983). J. C. French, A history of the university founded by Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, 1946), 169-70. W. V. Uttley, A history of Kitchener, Ontario (Kitchener, 1937; repr. [Waterloo, 1975]). "Waterloo County railway history," Waterloo Hist. Soc., Annual report (Kitchener), 1917: 19.


Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online www.biographi.ca

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BREITHAUPT (Berlin, Ont.) Jan 27 - E. Carl Breithaupt, who was injured in the explosion at the gas works last night, died this morning about 2 o'clock. He was badly burned and also injured internally. It now transpires that Breithaupt was blown onto the roof of the shed, where he was rescued. The other victim is so far doing favorably

ALDRICH (Berlin, Ont.) Jan. 26 - A terrible fire which has already resulted in one fatality and through which others may follow, happened here tonight at 7: 30. Two terrible explosions in rapid succession frightened people living in the near vicinity of the Gas company's works.

A reporter lives near the scene, and running out of the house, saw the gas works were on fire. The sound of a man's voice shouting "Help! help!" in a frantic voice was heard. Not long after an alarm was sent in, and the firemen were on the scene in quick time, and had streams playing on the flames.
Those who arrived on the scene first found E. Carl Breithaupt, manager of the Gas company and who is also manager of the electric street railway, lying on the low roof of a shed adjoining the burning building. He was terribly burned and bruised about the head and body. He was taken to Dr. G.H. Bowlby's residence and his injuries looked after. He was unconscious. It is feared his back is broken. When the reporter called at the doctor's residence shortly after, he was told that Mr. Breithaupt had recovered consciousness, but that it was not known, whether he would live or not. Near the burning building, a workman employed about the works, named Weller, was found in an unconscious state. He was carried to an adjoining house, where he now lies at this writing, unconscious.

But a horrible discovery awaited the searchers. A smothered cry was heard inside the burning building, and two brave firemen rushed in the teeth of the flames to attempt a rescue. The other firemen turned the hose on them, and by this means they were enabled to get at the imprisoned man, who was lying near the oil tanks, under a heap of burning wood and bricks. Before they got him out, however, he was dead. His hands and feet were literally burned off, and his face was burned beyond recognition. Though he could not be positively recognized, it was known that the poor wretch was William Aldrich, the electrician of the building. He was laid out on the snow, until Suraris' undertaking wagon was brought, when he was taken to the undertaking establishment.

There are different stories as to how the fire originated, but as all those in the building, at the time are dead or unconscious, it can only be a surmise. The general impression prevails, that the three men went into the building where the gas is made and the tanks of oil are kept, in order to make some repairs. One must have had a cigar, and a spark from it evidently dropped into one of the tanks. Immediately the oil must have exploded, and Mr. Breighaupt, and Mr. Weller were thrown outside, while poor Aldrich, less fortunate, was dashed against the stone wall of the building to die horribly, being literally roasted to death.

Hamilton Spectator - Wednesday, January 27, 1897

Website:
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Other Events:

• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138759
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.

Other Events:

• Business: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Berlin Trunk and Bag Co.
• Employer: Breithaupt Leather Co., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Historic Building: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Interesting: business, death
• Land: Honey Harbour, Baxter Township, Muskoka District, Ontario, Canada; Cottage
• Name: A. L. Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183884P
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evang. Assoc.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Elected Office: 1899, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener Council
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Printigrapher Leather Business
• Occupation: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Secretary-Treasurer - The Berlin Rubber Co. Ltd.
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1912, 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Baggage
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Albert Breithaupt Drowns, Wife Pulled From Lake
Well-known Kitchener Resident Disappears With Sinking Boat

HONEY HARBOR, Ont (CP)-Albert Breithaupt, 84-year-old Kitchener industrialist, was drowned yesterday in a boat collision near this Georgian Bay resort area. He was an uncle of Louis O. Breithaupt, lieutenant-governor of Ontario. Mr. Breithaupt's wife Gladys, who was in the boat when it sank, escaped unhurt and was pulled from the water. The accident scene was about seven miles north of Honey Harbor, which is 25 miles northwest of Orillia. Mr. Breithaupt had been vacationing at his cottage here.

LIFELONG RESIDENT

A life-long resident of Kitchener, Mr. Breithaupt once worked for the Breithaupt Leather Co. Ltd., which was founded by his father. It now is owned by the lieutenant-governor's family. He helped found and develop three other Kitchener companies. He leaves four sons and two daughters, Fred and Arthur of Kitchener, Rudolph of Waterloo, Dr. David, of Toronto, Mrs. H. E. Martin and Mrs. R. A. Gordon, of Toronto. His first wife predeceased him in 1942. The boat, a 16-foot craft with an inboard motor, overturned in the crash and Mr. Breithaupt disappeared before rescuers could reach him. He had been on his way to Whallen's island for supplies. It is believed he was trapped behind the wheel and was unable to free himself because of a hip condition. Search for the body is continuing.

NINTH AREA VICTIM

Mr. Breithaupt was the ninth Waterloo County resident to drown in the past month. Karen Winslade, 6, of Ayr, drowned in Ayra last Sunday. Arthur Weber, RR 2, Breslau his son Richard 9, and daughter Shirley, 12, were drowned in a pond June 29 near Hespeler. Five-year-old Andrew Pilkington drowned July while swimming in the Speed River near Hespeler. David Brenneman, 14, of Haysville, drowned in the Nith River July 16.

Mr. Breithaupt was the last surviving member of the family of the original Louis Breithaupt, and had lived all his live in the homestead built by his father in 1870. He remained active to the end of his life, his last business interest being in sales work with a company he started, the Shoe Findings Company. He helped found one of the city's first rubber industries in the building now a part of Dominion Rubber Company, Ltd. on Margaret Avenue. The factory on Young street now occupied by John Forsyth Ltd., once house a ladies wear firm which was developed by a group including Mr. Breithaupt. He also organized the former Berlin Trunk and Bag Company which is now occupied by the Greb Shoe Company. Interested in public life, he was an alderman for several years and unsuccessfully contested the mayoralty when Dr. J. E. Hett was elected.

A member of the high school board, he was especially interested in promoting manual training. In the early years of this community, Mr. Breithaupt was a member of the Berlin Light Commission. He was a member of Zion Evangelical UB Church and was on the denomination's board of Christian education. He taught in the Sunday school here for most of his life. An enthusiast in the early days of photography as a hobby, he returned to it in his later years and was an ardent color photography fan. Interested in woodworking, he made many pieces of furniture for his Georgian Bay cottage.

Mr. Breithaupt had spent each weekend this summer at his cottage, as well as some full weeks. However, he returned to make his regular calls on shoemakers in several communities between Galt and North Bay, driving his car on road trips in spite of his advanced age. He liked to retain his interest in the leather trade and found his sales trips valuable for this. His first wife, the former Louise Anthes, died in 1942. The present Mrs. Breithaupt was the former Gladys Baechler. Funeral arrangements have not been made pending finding of the body.



Kitchener-Waterloo Record- 23 Jul 1955 pg 3

Historic Building:
Waldeck house built by Louis Breithaupt, demolished in 1965.

Elected Office:
1899-1900, 1913-1914

Albert — Lydia Louisa "Louisa" Anthes. Lydia (daughter of John Schmidt Anthes and Lydia Catherine Herlan) was born 27 Mar 1877, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 18 Jun 1942, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Albert — Gladys Eileen Baechler. Gladys was born 25 Aug 1913; died 5 Aug 2004, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Grace United (Zion Evangelical) Cemetery , Tavistock, East Zorra Township, Oxford Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Katie Breithaupt
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36091
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist

Other Events:

• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-136004
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelist

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-271776
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-271777
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-271779
• Residence: 1861, Woolwich Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-244908

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-248244

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-95843

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138678
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; --
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Name: Carrie
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138679
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; --
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Name: Oscar Goetz
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-138680
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; --
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-328758
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-241979

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-142393

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35294875
• Name: Ida Louisa Hanson
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-304317

Notes:

HANSON, Ida I., beloved wife of T.O. Hanson, Glen Lake, Minnesota, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. I.H. Wagner, passed away April 23. Surviving are her husband, son Walter, two grandchildren, sister, Mrs. N.I. Knechtel, Kitchener; two brothers, Louis, Courtney, B.C., Carl, Byron, Illinois. Funeral service Minneapolis Saturday. Interment Kitchener Monday. Ratz-Bechtel funeral directors

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 24 Apr 1953

Ida — Thomas Oliver Hanson. Thomas was born 13 Aug 1876, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States; died 11 Sep 1969, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00008-985.2

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-47984

Wesley married Ann Mae Reading 21 Jun 1920, Walkerville, Sandwich South Twp., Essex Co., Ontario. Ann (daughter of James Reading and Elisabeth Brown) was born 1899, Wiarton, Amabel Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-47983

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-47982

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• Eby ID Number: 00008-986.2

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• Name: Clayton Schmidt
• Eby ID Number: 00008-986.3

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• Eby ID Number: 00008-986.4

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• Eby ID Number: 00008-986.5

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• Eby ID Number: 00083-5019.21

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125216270
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-14095
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Rubber Shoe Cutter, Shoe Factory
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; salesman

Clarence married Josephine Caroline Voll 1 Aug 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Josephine (daughter of Peter Voll and Josephine Dietrich) was born 26 May 1898, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 17 Jan 1967, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Laurena Bean
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29568
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 16 Pequegnat Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Lorena married Elmer George Forler 8 Aug 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elmer (son of Henry George Forler and Amelia Lantz) was born 1 Mar 1894, Philipsburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1956; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29569
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-29567
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Cashier, Dry Goods
• Residence: 1921, 16 Pequegnat Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-187157
• Residence: 1921, 113 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Possible Matches:
Waterloo-187157
Waterloo-321223

Alfred married Ruth Mary Pletch 6 Jul 1937, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ruth (daughter of Harry W. Pletch and Elizabeth Beilstein) was born 1910, Mildmay, Carrick Twp., Bruce Co., Ontario, Canada; died 2006; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-321224
• Residence: 1921, 113 Frederick St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

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• Name: Louise Evaline "Evaline" Parry
• Eby ID Number: 00142-2327.2
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Recipes: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Family Photograph:
The above picture represents five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt, of Berlin, all of whom have been students at our College. Mr. Breithaupt is one of the leading citizens of Berlin, Mayor of the City, Warden of Waterloo, ex-member of Parliament, etc. The daughters have occupied successively one of the front rooms of the main building known as No. 9 Lower Main. The eldest. Miss Evelyn Breithaupt, is now Mrs. Dr. Parry, of Hamilton, and the youngest. Miss Katherine Breithaupt, is at present attending the College. The others. Miss Lillian, Miss Edna and Miss Rose, are at home in Berlin. The College cherishes the most kindly feeling towards parents and daughters, and wishes them every possible favor and blessing in life which they so richly deserve.

Recipes:
PLANKED SHAD OR WHITE FISH

Evelyn Breithaupt.

Clean and split a thin pound shad, put the skin side down on oak plank 1 inch thick and a little longer and wider than the fish, sprinkle with salt and pepper and brush over melted butter. Bake 25 minutes in hot oven. Remove from the oven, spread with butter, garnish with parsley and brown. The fish should be sent to the table on plank. Planked shad is well cooked in a gas range having the flame over the fish.<sup>1a

1a</sup>The Ladies of Berlin, Waterloo and Friends Elsewhere, The Berlin Cook Book (Berlin, Ontario: The New Record Print Shop, 1906), pg 25

Louise married Dr. John Roland Parry 31 Oct 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. John (son of John Parry and Margaret Jane Galbraith) was born 13 Jun 1879, Dunnville, Haldimand Co., Ontario; died 27 Dec 1956; was buried , Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Lillian Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: 00142-2327.3
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Recipes: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Recipes: 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Notes:

In the 1930s she was the president of the Ladies Auxiliary for the local sanatorium.

Family Photograph:
The above picture represents five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt, of Berlin, all of whom have been students at our College. Mr. Breithaupt is one of the leading citizens of Berlin, Mayor of the City, Warden of Waterloo, ex-member of Parliament, etc. The daughters have occupied successively one of the front rooms of the main building known as No. 9 Lower Main. The eldest. Miss Evelyn Breithaupt, is now Mrs. Dr. Parry, of Hamilton, and the youngest. Miss Katherine Breithaupt, is at present attending the College. The others. Miss Lillian, Miss Edna and Miss Rose, are at home in Berlin. The College cherishes the most kindly feeling towards parents and daughters, and wishes them every possible favor and blessing in life which they so richly deserve.

Recipes:
BEEFSTEAK PIE

Miss. Lillian Briethaupt

Cut remnants of cold broiled stake or roast beef in 1 inch cubes, cover with boiling water, add 1 small onion, and cook slowly one hour. Remove onion, thicken gravy with flour diluted with cold water, and season with salt and pepper, add 4 potatoes cut in 1/2 inch slices, 1/2 cup turnip cut in dice and 3/4 cup carrot cut in dice, which have been parboiled eight minutes in boiling water. Put in a buttered pudding dish, cool, cover with baking powder biscuit mixture or pie crust, bake in a hot oven. If covered with pie crest make several incisions in crust that gases may escape.<sup>1a

1a</sup>The Ladies of Berlin, Waterloo and Friends Elsewhere, The Berlin Cook Book (Berlin, Ontario: The New Record Print Shop, 1906), pg 50

Recipes:
BAKING POWDER BISCUIT

Miss. Lillian Briethaupt

2 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 cup shortening, 2/3 cup water.<sup>1a

1a</sup>The Ladies of Berlin, Waterloo and Friends Elsewhere, The Berlin Cook Book (Berlin, Ontario: The New Record Print Shop, 1906), pg 51

Other Events:

• Name: Edna Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: 00142-2327.4
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Exceptional drive, impressive skills in leadership and organization, and a strong social conscience, combined with interests in education and the arts: these were the characteristics of Edna Breithaupt which led to her many achievements. The various organizations she founded all derived from her vision of a better life through arts education, and all of them have enriched Canadian cultural life.

Martha Edna Breithaupt, known as Edna, was born July 26, 1885 in Berlin, Ontario, the second of eight children of Louis Jacob Breithaupt and Emma (Devitt) Breithaupt. The Breithaupts were a locally prominent family of considerable wealth that was derived mainly from the family tannery business, the Breithaupt Leather Company. They were also involved in local and provincial politics. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was entertained at the family home, "Sonneck," and Edna's brother, Louis 0. Breithaupt, was a Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario.

As a girl, Edna spent her summers at the Breithaupt family cottages, "Riverbend" on the Grand River near Bridgeport (now part of Kitchener), and in Penetang on Georgian Bay, where her father had opened a second branch of the tannery business in 1885. The Breithaupts were devoted members of Zion Evangelical church in Kitchener and Edna was involved in many church activities during her formative years. After high school she attended the Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, where she majored in art...

Women of Waterloo County, edited by Ruth Russell

Family Photograph:
The above picture represents five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt, of Berlin, all of whom have been students at our College. Mr. Breithaupt is one of the leading citizens of Berlin, Mayor of the City, Warden of Waterloo, ex-member of Parliament, etc. The daughters have occupied successively one of the front rooms of the main building known as No. 9 Lower Main. The eldest. Miss Evelyn Breithaupt, is now Mrs. Dr. Parry, of Hamilton, and the youngest. Miss Katherine Breithaupt, is at present attending the College. The others. Miss Lillian, Miss Edna and Miss Rose, are at home in Berlin. The College cherishes the most kindly feeling towards parents and daughters, and wishes them every possible favor and blessing in life which they so richly deserve.

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: 00142-2327.5
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Family Photograph:
The above picture represents five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt, of Berlin, all of whom have been students at our College. Mr. Breithaupt is one of the leading citizens of Berlin, Mayor of the City, Warden of Waterloo, ex-member of Parliament, etc. The daughters have occupied successively one of the front rooms of the main building known as No. 9 Lower Main. The eldest. Miss Evelyn Breithaupt, is now Mrs. Dr. Parry, of Hamilton, and the youngest. Miss Katherine Breithaupt, is at present attending the College. The others. Miss Lillian, Miss Edna and Miss Rose, are at home in Berlin. The College cherishes the most kindly feeling towards parents and daughters, and wishes them every possible favor and blessing in life which they so richly deserve.

Other Events:

• Name: L. O. Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: 00142-2327.6
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1915, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; tanner
• Elected Office: 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mayor - Councillor - Kitchener
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Sales Manager, Tannery
• Residence: 1921, 100 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical
• Website: 2009
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Louis Orville Breithaupt earned the title of the city's "most eminent citizen" when he became Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario in 1952. He served the office with distinction until 1957.

His father, Louis Jacob Breithaupt, was a prominent industrialist, operating the Breithaupt Leather Company. Following graduation from the University of Toronto, Breithaupt entered his father's business, became vice-president and general manager, and, later, president.

He was an alderman for four years and in 1923, at age thirty-two, became the youngest mayor in the city's history - and the third generation of his family to serve in that office. Many local organizations received the benefit of his executive guidance. He had been governor of McMaster University, Hamilton and the chancellor of Victoria University, Toronto.

He was elected Liberal member for Waterloo North in 1940, 1945 and 1949. His personal qualities and interest in humanity made him a beloved citizen.


Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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LOUIS ORVILLE BREITHAUPT


L. O. Breithaupt, 70, former Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario and one of Waterloo County's most distinguished citizens died on December 6, 1960.

Following retirement as lieutenant-governor in December 1957, after serving a year beyond the customary five-year term, Mr.
Breithaupt resumed business as president of the Breithaupt Leather Co., in Kitchener, a position he first assumed in 1930. In April 1959, he was installed as chancellor of Victoria University, Toronto.

Bom in Kitchener, son of Louis J acob Breithaupt and Emma Devitt, he was the third generation of his family to serve as mayor of Kitchener (Berlin), and the youngest in the city's history.

Following education at the local high school, Northwestern College of Naperville, 111., and University of Toronto, Mr. Breithaupt entered the family-owned leather business.

He was first elected Kitchener alderman in 1919 and was reelected in 1920, 1921 and 1922 when he headed the polls on a citywide vote. In 1923, before his 33rd birthday he was elected mayor and the following year he was returned to the mayor's chair by acclamation.
There followed years devoted to business enterprise and public service before he stood, in 1940, as Liberal member for Waterloo- North. This was former prime minister Mackenzie King's original riding and Mr. Breithaupt's father had been largely responsible for persuading the late Mr. King to enter politics. L. O. Breithaupt was returned to the House of Commons in 1945 and 1949.

Throughout his life he was a moving spirit in a vast number of public enterprises, including his church, Zion Evangelical United Brethren, the Y.M.C.A., Rotary Club and the restoration of Woodside, former home of Mackenzie King. He was a member of the Board of Governors of McMaster University and of a host of clubs and organizations.

L. O. Breithaupt performed his duties with dignity and competence and with a lack of ostentation. Because of this and his other great qualities, he will be remembered as an example for citizens of Waterloo County.

Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1960

Elected Office:
Years Served: 1919-22, 1923-24 (Mayor)

Website:
Wikipedia Entry

Louis married Mabel Louise White 14 Oct 1915, Milton, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario, Canada. Mabel was born 5 Apr 1894, Milton, Trafalgar Twp., Halton Co., Ontario, Canada; died 27 Jun 1916, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Louis — Sara Caskey. Sara was born 2 Mar 1895, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA; died 14 Feb 1989, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Military: WW1 - Signaller 64th Battalion
• Eby ID Number: 00142-2327.7
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: Abt 1916, 108 Queen Street North, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; manufacturer
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manager, Tannery
• Residence: 1921, 23 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

William married Gertrude J. Hughes 1 Oct 1919, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. Gertrude was born 1893, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 10 Apr 1954, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-99426
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Notes:

Family Photograph:
The above picture represents five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Breithaupt, of Berlin, all of whom have been students at our College. Mr. Breithaupt is one of the leading citizens of Berlin, Mayor of the City, Warden of Waterloo, ex-member of Parliament, etc. The daughters have occupied successively one of the front rooms of the main building known as No. 9 Lower Main. The eldest. Miss Evelyn Breithaupt, is now Mrs. Dr. Parry, of Hamilton, and the youngest. Miss Katherine Breithaupt, is at present attending the College. The others. Miss Lillian, Miss Edna and Miss Rose, are at home in Berlin. The College cherishes the most kindly feeling towards parents and daughters, and wishes them every possible favor and blessing in life which they so richly deserve.

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188867
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 108 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Paul — M. Jean Alexander. M. was born 1907; died 1969; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Military: WW1 - Cadet - Royal Air Force
• Nationality: , Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189093P
• Immigration: 1900, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1900, , Canada
• Residence: 1911, 66 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Cadet, Royal Air Force
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 66 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189094
• Residence: 1911, 66 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 66 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189095
• Residence: 1911, 66 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 66 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical

Other Events:

• Name: Edward Breithaupt
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97692
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Directory: 1912, 160 Adam St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1925, Hastings, Northumberland Co., Ontario, Canada; chemical engineer

John married Elspeth Gertrude Mavor 14 Oct 1925, Beamsville, Clinton Twp., Lincoln Co., Ontario. Elspeth was born 4 Mar 1895, Rockland, Prescott and Russell United Counties, Ontario; died 1967; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Louisa Catharine Geil
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97693
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Directory: 1912, 160 Adam St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Income
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Louisa — Professor Milton George Geil. Milton (son of Henry Geil and Margaret Domm) was born 3 Jun 1893, Drew, Minto Twp., Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 6 Jul 1962, West Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Military: WW1
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 172 Margaret St., Kitchener, Ontario
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97694P
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Directory: 1912, 160 Adam St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Divisional Signaler, Service #2266063
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1946, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, USA

Other Events:

• Name: Frieda Carolina Harris
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-97695
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Directory: 1912, 160 Adam St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1953, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada

Frieda married Ernest Albert Harris 10 Jul 1948, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Ernest was born 1892; died 1956. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-184008
• Directory: 1912, 160 Adam St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Walter married Norma Fosbrook Shepperson 1 Sep 1928, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada. Norma was born 17 Jun 1903, Brantford, Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 31 Jan 1967, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Esther Breithaupt
• Name: Helena Esther "Esther" Duffield
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-308532
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 172 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Helena — Allen Edward Duffield. Allen was born 19 Jan 1908, Mount Forest, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada; died 4 Jul 1954, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Nationality: , USA
• Residence: 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188873
• Immigration: 1910, , Ontario, Canada
• Immigration: 1911, , Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Trunk Factory
• Residence: 1921, 22 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Zion Evangelical
• Occupation: 1950, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; sales manager - Staminite Co.

Albert — Edna Mary Louise "Mary" Kaufman. Edna (daughter of Jacob S. Kaufman and Mary Ratz) was born 21 Dec 1891, , Ontario, Canada; died 3 Jun 1983; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Nationality: , Canada
• Immigration: UNKNOWN, , Canada
• Residence: 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188874
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Diatician, Hospital
• Residence: 1921, 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1950, K-W Collegiate & Vocational School, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario; teacher - K-W Collegiate & Vocational School
• Residence: 1950, 25 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Other Events:

• Residence: 189 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-188875
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187292025
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189761
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Other Events:

• Name: F. A. Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183886P
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Elected Office: 1951, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener Council
• Residence: 1955, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Elected Office:
1951-1958, 1960-1962

Fredrick — Frances Marian Bean. Frances (daughter of David Alexander "Alexander" Bean and Rose Anna Winter) was born 26 May 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Nov 1999, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Marie Breithaupt
• Name: Martha Marie Louise "Marie" Hagmeier
• Name: Martha Marie Louise "Marie" Martin
• Residence: 166 Adam Street, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183887
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1955, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

HAGMEIER, Mrs. L. Gordon (Marie) On Saturday, June 23, 1979, at University Hospital, London, Ont., the former Marie Breithaupt, aged 75 years, of Route 2 (Beach-O-Pines) Grand Bend, Ont., along with her husband resided at Sarasota, Fla. (Siesta Key) during the winter months.

Survived by her husband Dr. L. Gordon Hagmeier and his three daughters: Mrs. Arthur H. (Betty) McCarthy of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Mrs. H. William (Jean) Schlegel of Route 2. Grand Bend, Mrs. John (Anne) Gibson of Calgary; her sister Mrs. R. A. Ruth Gordon of Toronto; her brothers, Fred A. Breithaupt and Arthur L. Breithaupt, both of Kitchener, Dr. David J. Breithaupt of Toronto and nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her brother Rudolph A. Breithaupt of Waterloo, her first husband H. Emmerson Martin, her father Albert L.. Breithaupt and her mother, the former Louisa Anthes. She was a graduate of the Toronto General Hospital School of Nursing, and at one time was on the staff of Preston Springs Sanitorium, then returned to Toronto General Hospital, where she had been an operating room head nurse.

A memorial service will be held at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen and Weber Streets Kitchener, on Tuesday, June 26, 1979, at 2 p.m. Rev. Grant MacDonald will officiate, Cremation has taken place, there will be no visitation at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may be shown by donations to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Radio and Television Ministry or the charity of your choice and may be arranged at the Ratz Bechtel Funeral Home.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record Mon, Jun 25, 1979 Page 23

Martha married Hugh Emerson "Emerson" Martin 4 Jun 1938, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Hugh was born 31 May 1896, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 21 Dec 1969, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Martha — Dr. Louis Gordon "Gordon" Hagmeier. Louis (son of Abraham Hagmeier and Elizabeth Graeb) was born 5 Jun 1887, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1985; was buried , Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, Huron Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Dolph Breithaupt
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183888
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1955, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Rudolph — Marion Gertrude Elizabeth Martha Roos. Marion (daughter of Peter H. Roos and Mary Elizabeth Zimmermann) was born 18 Nov 1909, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Jul 2011, Waterloo Ave., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Anna Breithaupt
• Name: Ruth Anna Catharine Gordon
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-183889
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical

Notes:

Ruth Anne Breithaupt, a nurse, joined the anaesthetic staff at Christie Street Veterans' Hospital, and hoped to "live happily ever after." However, war soon loomed, and a phone call at 0200 on September 1, 1939 "invited" him to report, at 0900 the same day, to the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps to become an army anaesthetist. Overseas, he served first with the Fifteenth Canadian General Hospital and, from 1941 to I945, with the Basingstoke Neurological and Plastic Surgery Hospital. After the war, Rod remained in the RCAMC (Reserve), becoming a full colonel in 1949....


CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA 1994 / 4l: pp1-2 Alan W. Conn, Toronto

Ruth — Dr. Roderick Angus Gordon. Roderick was born 2 Aug 1911, near, Watrous, , Saskatchewan, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-242622
• Residence: 1935, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1955, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1963, 97 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1968, 84 Rushholme Rd., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Arthur married Martha Anne Frisbie 27 Mar 1936. Martha was born 1914; died 1969; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Arthur — Betty Anne Combs. Betty was born 1915; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-261777
• Residence: 1921, 166 Margaret St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Evangelical
• Residence: 1955, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada