Nancy Bowman

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• Name: Agnes Bowman
• Name: Nancy Seips
• Name: Nancy Stauffer
• Eby ID Number: 00002-258
• Residence: 1860, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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Nancy Bowman, "the eldest, was born August 31st, 1829. She was married twice, first to Joseph Stauffer, and after his decease to Nelson Seips. With her first husband she resided on a farm near Blair. She died at Galt in 1889. Her family consisted of three children, viz: Carrie and Joseph of her first husband, and Nettie of her second husband."


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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character.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

Nancy — Joseph B. Stauffer. Joseph (son of Abraham Stauffer and Catharine Biehn) was born CALC 23 Nov 1818, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Jul 1853, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blair Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Nancy married Nelson Seips 8 May 1860, Blair (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Nelson was born 1815, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: 00117-7370.3

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• Name: Caroline Cochrane
• Eby ID Number: 00117-7370.2

Caroline married John Greer Cochrane 8 Jul 1870, Beverly Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. John was born 29 Jul 1848, Glen Morris, South Dumfries Twp., Brant Co., Ontario, Canada; died 17 Mar 1935, Jerseyville, Ancaster Twp., Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Jerseyville Cemetery, Jerseyville, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Interesting: business, story
• Eby ID Number: 00002-258.4
• Occupation: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller
• Residence: 1891, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer
• Occupation: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Manufacturer, Robe Works
• Residence: 1911, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1936, Aberdeen Rd., Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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"Joseph Stauffer Passes at Galt - Prominent Industrialist Was Self-Made Man: Suffered Two Strokes

(Galt) Joseph Stauffer, prominent industrialist and descendant of a pioneer Waterloo county family, died this morning at his residence here. He was in his 83rd year and was quite active until Sunday evening when he suffered a slight stroke followed by a more severe one Monday morning from which he failed to rally.

He was president of Newlands and Company, Limited, vice-pres. of Stauffer Dobbie Ltd., vice-pres. of the Galt Art Metal Company and a director of the Waterloo Fire Insurance Company. He was born near the village of Doon, his parents natives of Waterloo county. His grandparents originally from Switzerland, came to Waterloo county from Pennsylvania in 1802.

Joseph Stauffer was a self-made man. His father died when he was but 11 months old. He came to Galt as a youth and went into the livery business.

In 1891 he joined the Newlands firm as a traveller and seven years later became a partner in the firm in which he was active until his death.

He was a staunch Conservative and was noted as an after dinner speaker and story teller. He was greatly interested in the work of the Waterloo County Historical Society and contributed much valued early history of the county. He is survived by three sons and one daughter, Claude and Joseph of Toronto, Clive of Galt, and Mrs. Alex Logan of Vancouver."

KW Record obit. of Tues., Feb. 18, 1936

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"Biography-JosephStauffer"

"Joseph Stauffer, the subject of this sketch was born near Doon in 1852 and died in Galt on Feb. 18th, 1936, in his 84th year.

Joseph Stauffer was the son of Joseph Stauffer, Sr. and Nancy Bowman. His ancestor left Switzerland for Germany and thence migrated to the United States, settling in Pa. about 1738. In 1802 his pioneer forefather located on a farm near Doon. The father died when Joseph was but eleven months old. The mother later moved to Blair and from there to Sheffield, where Joseph grew to manhood.

Joseph Stauffer's first business venture was a partnership with the late John Sipes of Galt where they conducted a livery business for 12 years.

In 1891 Mr. Stauffer joined the firm of Newlands and Company Limited as salesman. His success on the road was such that he was admitted to membership in this firm and later became president of the company, which position he held until his death.

In 1903 Mr. Stauffer and the late Andrew Newland organized another textile plant known as the Galt Robe Company, Limited, which firm later became the Stauffer-Dobbie Company, Limited.

Mr. Stauffer was also Vice-President of the Galt Art Metal Company, director of the Waterloo Fire Insurance Company, local Vice-President of the Waterloo Historical Society and for a number of years a member of the Galt City Council.

Mr. Stauffer in spite of having started at the bottom of the ladder nevertheless succeeded in each of his various enterprises against all obstacles, and achieved noteworthy objectives in the wide field of his activities. These were not by any means confined to commercial or financial interests only but included the broader realm of success fulliving.

Mr. Stauffer was a man beloved of his family. He had a keen, active and generous interest in the community in which he lived. His political sagacity was outstanding and his patriotism with respect to Canadian and British institutions was sincere and worthy of emulation.

In his business undertakings, so widely diversified, his successes wer enot only gratifying from the standpoint of personal prowess but also in the enriched regard and respect which he won from those associated with him and from those with whom his business was conducted.

Mr. Stauffer's partner in life was the late Lena Clemens, daughter of Oliver Clemens of Blair, also deceased. Mr. Stauffer's family comprised three sons and one daughter.

Few descendants of our early settlers took as much interest in their ancestral family history as did Mr. Stauffer, who, after visiting Pennsylvania to learn what he could of the family tree, spent severa lmonths in Switzerland in 1925 and visited the home of his forebears. He succeeded in tracing the history of the Stauffer family back for a period of eleven hundred years. Incidentally he found three representatives ofthe family had in their time held responsible positions in the government after Switzerland became a republic.

Among the traditions of the Stauffer family in America is the record of the coming of the first Stauffers from Muckenhauserhof, Wurtemberg, Germany, whither members of the family had fled during earlier years to escape the persecution of non-conformists in Switzerland.

While in Germany, Maritn Stauffer had determined to emigrate and settle in America but a fatal illness overtook him before his plans could be carried out. Upon his death bed he urged his young sons to take their mother to America with them as soon as possible after his demise. This was done but the difficulties of a journey of several hundred miles were increased by the fact that the mother was crippled. Due to the small resources of the family, the sons were obliged to improvise a wheel chair or hand wagon in which they personally conveyed their mother several hundred miles from this far inland part of Germany to the seaport fromwhich they secured passage to Pennsylvania." (contributed by C.T. Groh)

Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1936 pg. 237-238 on pg. 239

Joseph — Magdalena "Lena" Clemens. Magdalena (daughter of Oliver Clemens and Elizabeth Helrigel) was born 25 Mar 1855, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 9 Feb 1925; was buried , Mount View Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Nettie Oliver
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-102196

Nettie — Oliver. was born Abt 1860; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Annetta Oliver
• Name: Nettie Sipes
• Eby ID Number: 00002-256.8

Annetta — Charles Oliver. Charles was born Abt 1860, of, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-102198

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• Name: Estelle Maude Carlyle
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-12541

Estelle married James Patton Carlyle 23 Oct 1907, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada. James was born 1881, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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

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

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