Joseph Henry Gorman

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• Interesting: business,
• Name: J. H. Gorman
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40051
• Residence: 1871, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baker
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baker
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; baker
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Residence: 1884, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; grocer
• Business: 1887, J. H. Gorman & Co., Kitchener, , Ontario, Canada; J. H. Gorman & Co.
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Merchant
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Fruit Agent
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller
• Residence: 1921, 40 1\2 King St. E. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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J.H. Gorman & Co., Family Grocers, King Street - The family grocery trade of Berlin is well represented by honorable business men, who are full of enterprise. Among those who hold a leading position in this line are Messrs. J.H. Gorman & Co., who are located on King Street. These gentlemen have been established in business for the past eight years, and have built a trade that is very satisfactory, increasing as it does steadily year after year. The premises occupied are 22x45 feet in dimensions, with a warehouse in rear 16x25 feet in dimensions. Here a large and carefully selected stock of fine groceries, crockery and glassware are carried including the best brands of teas and coffees, spices table delicacies, etc. A specialty is made of the celebrated national brand Baltimore Oysters, put up by Keagle & Guider, both in cans and bulk, and which are largely handled at wholesale and retail, as are also fruits of all kinds, and sweet potatoes by the barrel; the firm being direct importers of these goods, which are sold at the lowest market rates. The trade of the house extends throughout the town and surrounding country, goods being delivered by team. The firm give employment to three competent and courteous assistants. Mr. J.H. Gorman, the proprietor, is a native of Guelph, and is a capable and enterprising business man, highly esteemed by all who know him.


Industries of Canada Historical and Commercial Sketches Hamilton and Environs 1886

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Joseph Gorman

Death claimed Joseph Gorman, 60 King street east, Kitchener, March 9th, in his 73rd year. He conducted a grocery business in Kitchener for many years and recently travelled. The late Mr. Gorman is survived by his wife, two sons, Fred, the son of a former marriage, and Joseph H. One daughter and one son predeceased him.

Waterloo Chronicle 17 Mar 1932, p. 1

Joseph married Louisa Peter 28 Dec 1880, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Louisa (daughter of Johannes "John" Peter and Maria "Mary" Doering) was born 19 Dec 1860, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 26 Aug 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Joseph — Catherine Rosa "Katie" Wellheuser. Catherine (daughter of Jacob Wellheuser and Margaret Strub) was born 4 Feb 1880, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Feb 1970, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Joseph married Dorothea "Dora" Hollaender 30 Dec 1884, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Dorothea (daughter of Heinrich "Henry" Hollaender and Dorothea Elfert) was born 30 Aug 1862, , Germany; died 9 Feb 1906, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-321458
• Residence: 1921, 40 1\2 King St. E. Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Roman Catholic

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-2137

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• Name: Emily Gorman
• Name: Emma Louise Gruhn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40074
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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MRS. H. F. GRUHN

The funeral took place on Thursday of the late Mrs. (Rev.) H. F. Gruhn who died Monday morning at Erie, Pa. Services were held at the home of Mr. Fred Gruhn, Wellington St., Berlin and at St. Mathews Lutheran church at 2.30, after which the remains were taken to Mount Hope Cemetery for interment.

The deceased was a daughter of Mr. Joseph Gorman of Berlin and had many friends here, having been stamp vendoress at the post office for some years before her marriage and afterwards residing in New Hamburg where her husband was stationed.

The remains arrived in the city at six o'clock at evening. Services were also held on Tuesday evening in her husband's church in Erie.
Mrs. Gruhn is survived by her father, two brothers, Lincoln and Fred, her husband and a seven-year-old son. by whom she will be greatly missed.

The Chronicle Telegraph 7 Oct 1915, p. 3

Emma married Rev. Herman F. Gruhn 15 Nov 1904, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Herman (son of Carl A. Gruhn and Elizabeth Stark) was born 20 Feb 1874, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1962; was buried , Saint Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40085
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

Lincoln — Mabel Gertrude Blinkhorn. Mabel (daughter of Sergeant George Walter Blinkhorn and Jeanetta Sears) was born 5 Feb 1893, , Frontenac Co., Ontario; died 1984, Windsor, Essex Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40096
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran

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• Church Membership: St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Name: Fred Gruhn
• Name: Frederick Gruhn
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-127308
• Occupation: 1939, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; undertaker
• Military: 1943, , Canada; WW2 - Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve
• Business: 1947, 178 Queen St. S., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gruhn Funeral Home Ltd.
• Residence: 1974, 178 Queen St. S., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Fred Gruhn dies; funeral home owner

Frederick H. Gruhn, president of Gruhn Funeral Home Ltd., died Sunday of a heart attack his his 178 Queen St. S. residence. He was 59. Mr. Gruhn joined Lippert Funeral Home in Kitchener in 1939 and brought the business in 1947. He had operated it ever since. Born in Erie, Pa., he obtained his embalmer's licence from the Canadian School of Embalming in Toronto. He worked at funeral homes in Vineland and Toronto before coming to Kitchener. In 1943 he joined the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve and served in the North Atlantic on convoy duty. He was discharged in 1946. Mr. Gruhn was a member of the Ontario Funeral Service Association, the Central Ontario Funeral Directors' Association, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 50, the Loyal Order of Moose, K-W Naval Veterans Association, the United Commercial Travellers of America and a member of St. Peter's Lutheran Church. His is survived by his wife and two sons in Kitchener and a brother in California. Funeral services will be held Wednesday.


Kitchener-Waterloo Record, October 21, 1974

H. — Doris Weis. Doris (daughter of Edgar Frederick Weis and Martha Bowman) was born 1914, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-2142