Winfield Brewster

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• Business: Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Universal Lightning Rod Company
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-84153
• Residence: 1891, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk
• Occupation: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Town Cterk, Office
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

Notes:

Winfield Brewster in 1900 read aloud the proclamation that incorporated Hespeler as a town. His father had done the same in 1858 when Hespeler became a village. He operated the Hespeler Fuel Co. and wrote 5 books on the history of Hespeler and the area.


Cambridge Mosiac, Jim Quantrell, 1998, City of Cambridge [snippet from original text in book]

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The First Automobile owned here was a steam runabout which Jack Farnsworth bought in Brooklyn in September, 1906, and of which he and Charles Phillip Grill and I owned each an undivided one-third share.


Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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When we were closing the office on the evening of November 25th, 1952, I noticed Reginald Prior coming out of the Post Office and called him over and when he came, asked him if he would mind locking the door for me which he kindly did, and then, turning to me he asked what was the big idea and my reply was that some day he would come to know. Now to redeem that promise.

My Father opened the old office at the corner of Queen and Adam Streets on November 25th, 1877, and so, Reggie, when you did me that favor you were locking up Brewster's office after 75 years on Queen Street. And How glad I am it was you and not the Bailiff!

Le Rue De Commerce, Other Times Other Customs Other Days Other Ways, Winfield Brewster 1954

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Winfield Brewster entered into the political life of Hespeler when, in 1900, he was asked to read the proclamation which incorporated Hespeler as a town. In doing so he followed in the footsteps of his father, Andrew Jackson Brewster, who performed this duty in 1858 when Hespeler was incorporated as a village. Winfield followed his father in many endeavours. In 1898, he entered the conveyancing and insurance business started by his father in 1877. He was known as one of Hespeler's leading citizens and was instrumental in building up an "outstanding" Patriotic Fund during World War I. He was his father's successor as Hespeler Town Clerk and Treasurer of the Hespeler Public School Board when the elder Mr Brewster died in 1903. Mr Brewster was a Captain in the 29th Waterloo Militia and was a one third owner of the first automobile in Hespeler, a steam runabout purchased in Brooklyn, New York in 1906. Mr Brewster was the primary organizer of both the 1906 and the 1926 Old Boys Reunion and was consulted frequently by the organizers of the 1947 Homecoming. Mr Brewster was the Honorary President of the Hespeler Horticultural Society, operated the Hespeler Fuel Co., and, at one time, headed the Universal Lightning Rod Co. He was also the author of six small books on the history of Hespeler and area. They include "La Rue de Commerce; Queen St. Hespeler, Ontario", "The Floodgate: Random Writings of Our Ain Folk", "Pine-Bush Genealogy", "Hespeler Yarns", "Lot Six in the Third of Waterloo" and "J. Hespeler, New Hope C.W.". Winfield Brewster died 2 Nov 1962 and is buried in New Hope Cemetery.

Cambridge Hall of Fame. (2019). Cambridge.ca. Retrieved 2 March 2019, from https://www.cambridge.ca/en/learn-about/cambridge-hall-of-fame.aspx

Winfield — Hazel Leota Kribs. Hazel (daughter of Louis Pannabaker Kribs and Elizabeth A. "Millie" Cliff) was born 25 Jan 1884, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died 7 Feb 1973, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , New Hope Cemetery, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Jean — Dick Waghorne. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: A. J. Brewster
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-223054
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-223055
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian

Notes:

He married Esta Young. He had three children - Robert, Charles, David.

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-223057
• Residence: 1911, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Presbyterian