Elizabeth Sovereign

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• Name: Elizabeth Bowlby
• Eby ID Number: dnf-90943

Elizabeth married Captain Adam Bowlby 1819. Adam (son of Richard Bowlby, UEL) was born Between 20 Mar 1792 and 29 Mar 1792, , Wilmot County, Annapolis, Nova Scotia; died 26 Feb 1883, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Honoured: David St. in Kitchener, Ontario is named for him.
• Interesting: medical, story
• Name: D. S. Bowlby
• Residence: 50 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34051P
• Occupation: 1856, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; doctor
• Elected Office: 1857, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor - Kitchener
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; physician
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

David Sovereign Bowlby, the leading physician and surgeon in Berlin, is a son of Adam Bowlby, whose sketch appears in this volume, and Elizabeth, nee Sovereign, and was born in Townsend, county of Norfolk; September 5, 1826. He received his literary education in Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto; studied his profession at first in the Toronto School of Medicine, and then in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York city, receiving the degree of M.D. at the former institution in 1852, and at the latter in 1853. He is one of the most thoroughly educated men in the medical profession in the county.

Dr. Bowlby practiced a few months in Paris, county of Brant, and in October, 1853, settled in Berlin, being the longest in the practice of any man now here, and having an excellent reputation, both professional and personal.

Dr. Bowlby was in the town council for some years, and resigned to accept the office of jail surgeon, which he still holds, and has held for many years. He has been a member of what is now called the high school board nearly as long as he has resided here, and is chairman of the same. He is president of the Berlin Rifle Association, and of the Reform Association of the county of Waterloo, being decidedly radical in his political views.

His religious connection is with the Church of England. He has held the office of warden of St. John's church, Berlin; has been a lay delegate to the synod, and is a man of solid character. The wife of Dr. Bowlby was Martha Esther Murphy, of Montreal, married July 7, 1856. They have five children.

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

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St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church

Early Anglican services were held in the Berlin area in the 1840s by the Rev. Michael Boomer of the Galt Mission. In 1856 William Jaffray moved from Galt to Berlin and established an English-language newspaper, the Berlin Chronicle. An Anglican, who had attended Trinity Church in Galt, Mr. Jaffray led in the formation of a congregation in Berlin, where he acted as Lay Reader. Two other gentlemen influential in establishing the Anglican presence in Berlin were Henry Joseph Fletcher Jackson and Dr. David S. Bowlby. Land was purchased on April 5, 1861 on the southeast corner of Water St. N. and Short (now Duke) Streets, and the first church, of red brick with white brick trim, was built in 1861.

The church was demolished in April 1894 to make room for the present church which was built on the same site and dedicated on October 7, 1894. A Parish Hall was built in 1927 and the church was enlarged in 1955. Early rectors who followed the missionary, Thomas S. Campbell, were the first rector Rev. E.R. Stimson (1859-1864), Rev. Dr. John Schulte (1864-1867), Rev. Henry Jessop (1868) and Rev. Alexander Sydney Falls (1869-1876).


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

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DAVID SOVEREIGN BOWLBY, M.D

The Bowlbys are a well known U. E. Loyalist family in Norfolk, Brant and Waterloo Counties. Their ancestor, Richard Bowlby, a native of Nottinghamshire, England, left landed possessions in New Jersey in 1783, at the close of the Revolutionary War, and settled in Annapolis County, N.S. With him came his son, Richard Bowlby, Jr., born in New Jersey, who married a niece of Josiah Wedgwood, celebrated in English industrial history as a pioneer in fine pottery. Adam Bowlby, son of Richard Bowlby, Jr., was born in 1792. In the war of 1812 he was in charge of a company of coast guards, in Nova Scotia, and thus be came a veteran of this war and pensioner for life. At the close of the war, and with renewed tide of settlement to Upper Canada, he joined his uncle, Thomas Bowlby, in Norfolk County. He married Elizabeth Sovereign, in time became a large landholder and farmer, and had a family of five sons, Alfred, William, David S., Ward H., and John W. and one daughter who married Col. Walker Powell, later adjutant general at Ottawa. Adam Bowlby lived in his later years with his son Dr. D. S. Bowlby at whose house he died in 1883.

David Sovereign Bowlby, the third son of Adam Bowlby, was born in the Township of Townsend, Norfolk County, September 5th., 1826 and died on Christmas morning, in Rome, Italy, in 1903. He was educated at Upper Canada College, and at Toronto University, later, in his chosen profession, at the Toronto School of Medicine and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, where he attained his second degree of M.D., in 1853.

He began practice and was for a few months in Paris. In October, 1853, he came to Berlin, now Kitchener, at first to fill the place, temporarily, of a cousin, Dr. J. W. Sovereign, but soon deciding to remain. His skill and care rapidly won for him a large practice, extending in cases to driving distances of fifteen to twenty miles, and he may well be said to have been for many years the leading physician and surgeon of the County. He was the ideal old time family doctor, skilled, sympathetic and forceful, effecting immediate improvement in his patient by the simple act of his appearance, a type which, one sometimes thinks, is passing in the present day of hurry and bald matter of fact. He was County jail surgeon, as also coroner, for many years.

Dr. Bowlby took active interest in public life; as member of the village council of Berlin for five years, 1857 and 1859 to 1862 inclusive, as member for many years, and chairman for twenty five years, of the Board of Trustees of the Berlin High School, and in other capacities. The prosperity of the High School was largely due to his wise counsel and foresight. He was for many years chairman of the Reform Association of North Waterloo, and in the Dominion election of 1882 contested the riding against Hugo Kranz, the previous Member, who defeated him by a small majority. He was first president of the old Berlin Club, now the Lancaster Club.
'At the time of his death Dr. Bowlby was the oldest member of St. John's church, of which he was for many years warden, and delegate to the synod. He was president of the local branch of the Upper Canada Bible Society.

'He married, in 1856, Martha Esther Murphy, of Montreal, a sister of Mrs. H. F. J. Jackson. Mrs. Bowlby survives, as do also two daughters and one son; Mrs. E. P. Clement, D. Shaiinan Bowlby, B.A., LL.B., County Crown Attorney and Mrs. J. P. Fennell, all living in Kitchener. The older son, Major G. H. Bowlby, M.D.,* is on the Waterloo County Roll of Honor, as is also a grandson, Aviation Gunner David Ward Clement. Two grandsons are in the British army; Lieut. G. M. Boyd in France and Gunner Edwin O. Clement, still in Canada.

In his later years Dr. Bowlby had been more or less subject to bronchitis, spending the winter in the south, various years. An attack coming on at the beginning of winter he decided to spend some months in Sicily. Mrs. Bowlby accompanied him. He died a few days after landing in Italy, the first to break the circle of brothers and sister.


*See Biography, 1916 Report; W.H.S.

The Fifth Annual Volume of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1917

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Dr. D.S. Bowlby, physician and surgeon, practiced in Berlin from 1853 to 1903, often driving fifteen to twenty miles by horses and buggy to treat a patient, was a perfect example of the old-time family doctor. It was said that his very appearance at a bedside often brought immediate improvement. Because of his skillfulness and sympathetic attitude, he developed a very large practice.

Dr. Bowlby was the son of a pioneer, Adam Bowlby, and was born in the Township of Townsend, Norfolk County. He was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto, the Toronto School of Medicine and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.

Bowlby was a member of the Berlin Village Council, chairman of the board of trustees of the Berlin High School for twenty-five years, and chairman of the Reform Association of North Waterloo.

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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Bowlby, D. S., physician and surgeon ; also jail surgeon and coroner. Dr. Bowlby is a native of Norfolk Co., Ont., and has lived here since 1854.

Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsel & Co., Toronto - 1881

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BOWLBY, DAVID SOVEREIGN was born in Norfolk County, the third son of a U. E. Loyalist family, on September 5, 1826.

A biographical sketch giving an outline of his family history appears in the W. H. S. annual report for 1917.

He was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. Having graduated from the Toronto School of Medicine, the Canada Gazette of July 24, 1852 announced that he had been granted his licence to practice He took a further degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in 1853.

He first practised in Paris, but on the death pf Dr. J. W. Sovereign on September 21, 1854, he moved to Berlin to take over that practice, his first card appearing in Der Deutsche Canadier on October 12 of that year.

He quickly became a moving force in the community, both in professional matters and in public affairs. He was elected as a member of the village Council as early as 1857, and continued in the political field. Among other interests he was President of the Reform Association for many years, served as chairman of the Board of Trustee of the Berlin High School for twenty five years, acted as coroner, and as jail surgeon.

Despite his activities in these community affairs, he was able to quickly build up an extensive practice, under the rigorous conditions of that time. His skill and devotion in professional matters produced material rewards at a court action in 1859, Dr. Pipe testified

"Dr. Bowlby's practice must bring him an income of $4, 000 or $5, 000 a year, he owns several farms and is reported to be wealthy. He is well thought of by the people in that part of the country. "

He wrote a lengthy letter to the Daily News concerning his treatment of two accident cases, with certificates from other physicians supporting his position.


The Berliner Journal of January 8, 1890 drew attention to the card stating that his son Dr. G. H. Bowlby was joining him in practice. It also pointed out:

It pleases us that his health is better than ever, and that notwithstanding the rumor, he is always in the position to take the opportunity to visit his numerous patients in town and in the country."

Presumably the reference was to the fact that he suffered from bronchitis, which at times required him to spend winters in the south. In December 1903, for this reason he left for Sicily, but became ill and died in Rome on December 26, at 77 years of age.

He was survived by his widow, the former Martha Murphy, two daughters, and two sons.

From: Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925 by Alexander D. Campbell

Elected Office:
years served: 1857, 1859, 1860-61

David married Martha Esther Murphy 1 Jul 1856, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec. Martha (daughter of Alexander Murphy, Esq and Jane Allen) was born 4 Jul 1838, Montreal, Ile De Montreal, Quebec; died Yes, date unknown; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Interesting: insurance, business, story, politics, law
• Name: W. H. Bowlby
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-39226P
• Occupation: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lawyer
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Elected Office: 1865, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; councillor, Reeve
• Occupation: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lawyer
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Barrister
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Barrister
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lawyer
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Barrister
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Employer: 1912, Ecomonical Fire Insurance Company, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; director of Economical Fire Insurance Company
• Residence: 1912, 221 King St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

WARD HAMILTON BOWLBY, M.A., K.C.

Another Bowlby for many years prominent in Berlin, now Kitchener, County Crown Attorney for hair a century, was Ward Hamilton Bowlby, fourth son of Adam Bowlby of Townsend Township, County of Norfolk. (Ancestry see preceding biography.) He was born October 4th., 1834, and died in Kitchener January 8th., 1917. After preliminary education at a clergyman's school, Woodhouse Rectory, near Simcoe, and at the grammar schools of Simcoe, Streetsville and St. Thomas, he went to Upper Canada College and from there to Toronto Univer sity where he graduated in arts in 1856 and in law in 1858, as gold medalist on both occasions, obtaining the first University gold medal in law awarded at Toronto University. He also studied in the law of fice of Wilson, Patterson and Beaty, in Toronto. In May, 1858, he was called to the bar and admitted as a solicitor. Shortly after his legal authorization Mr. Bowlby came in 1858 to the then village of Berlin to begin practice.

He was senior partner in the law firm of Bowlby, Colquhoun and Clement the other partners being the late P. Colquhoun of Waterloo and E. P. Clement, K.C. later Bowlby & Clement, and so continuing until 1903, when Mr. Bowlby retired from the more active practice of his profession, after having attained distinction as a sound lawyer, a reliable counsiller and a trenchant prosecutor. During his long career he argued many important cases in the High Court at Toronto and in the Supreme Court at Ottawa.

In 1862 Mr. Bowlby was for a short time Registrar for the then south riding registry division with office in Preston, which separate registry office was discontinued in 1863. He was appoint ed Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace of Waterloo County by the first Provincial Government of Ontario in December 1867 and was at the time of his death the oldest incumbent of such office in Ontario. He was at various times member of the Town and County Councils, was reeve of Berlin from 1863 to 1868 and was for thirty years, until his resignation in 1895, member of the Public School Board.

He was a shrewd investor and became a large holder in Canadian Pacific, Merchants Bank and other stocks and securities. His place, Bowhill, with its eleven acres of well kept grounds, was an ornament to the County Town. The Tremaine map of 1861 shows the house, as also that of his brother, Dr. D. S. Bowlby. It is interesting to note that only one family, the Webers, father and son, was occupant of the Bowlby plot between Mr. Bowlby and original forest, in the Grand River Reservation of the Six Nation Indians. Abraham Weber came from Pennsylvania in 1807 and took as his allotment Lot 15 [should read 16] of the German Company tract of which this plot is a part. W. H. Bowlby bought from Sheriff Grange, the first Berlin real estate speculator, and he from Abraham C. Weber, son of Abraham Weber. Mr. Bowlby was a considerable traveller, in Europe and generally. On a trip he took up the Nile in a dahabeah with his family, in the winter of 1899, he wrote an interesting book which he presented to his friends.

In 1861 Mr. Bowlby married Lissie Hespeler, eldest daughter of Jacob Hespeler of Hespeler. Mrs. Bowlby survives. Their only daughter who married Sir George H. Perley, now High Commisioner for Canada, in London, died in 1911. Of his generation there remains only his youngest brother, John Wedgwood Bowlby, K.C., mayor of Brantford at 80. Mr. Bowlby was a member and large supporter of St. John's (Anglican) Church.

Fifth Annual Volume of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1917

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Ward Hamilton, M.A, LL.B., County Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace for the County of Waterloo, Berlin, Ont., was born in the Township of Townsend. in the County of Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, on October 4th, 1834. His father was the late Adam Bowlby, of Townsend, an extensive farmer and speculator in farm lands, who owned large tracts of land in Norfolk and adjoining counties, acquired considerable wealth, and died, at the advanced age of 91 years, on the 26th February, 1883. His grandfather, Richard Bowlby, during the American Revolutionary War, was a resident of the then Province of New Jersey, and being firm in his allegiance to the British Crown, became a U. B. Loyalist, left the United States, and settled in Annapolis county, Nova Scotia, where Adam Bowlby was born in 1792. Adam Bowlby served, while a mere lad, in the war of 1812, having been placed in command of a company of coast, guardsmen to prevent the landing of pivateers on the shores of the Bay of Fundy, and for this service he was in receipt of a pension from the Canadian Government, up to the day of his death, as one of the veterans of the war of 1812. The Bowlbys are an old English family, but as the ancestors of the subject of this sketch settled in the British provinces of America at such an early period, this branch of that family may be now properly called the colonial branch of the family, and are descended from good U. E. Loyalist stock. Tilomas William Bowlby, an English barrister and an eminent war correspondent, who, in the capacity of correspondent of the London Times, accompanied Lord Elgin as ambassador to China in I859, and was there treacherously killed by the Chinese, and to whose family the Chinese government were compelled to pay a large indemnity, was a distant relative of this branch of the same family.

The mother of the subject of this sketch was Elizabeth Sovereign, daughter of the late Leonard Sovereign, of Waterford, Ont., and niece of the late Philip Sovereign, M.P.P., member in the first parliament of Upper Canada at Niagara. Mr. Bowlby's great-grandmother, on the father's side, was a sister of Josiah Wedgwood, the celebrated English chemist who invented the Wedgwood ware. Ward Hamilton Bowlby was educated in a clergyman's school at the Woodhouse Rectory, near Simcoe, and in the grammar schools at Simcoe, Streetsville and St. Thomas, and at University College, Toronto, and graduated both in arts and in law at the University of Toronto. During every year of his college course he held a first scholarship, and on graduating to the degree of B. A. in the University of Toronto, in 1856, he obtained the Jamieson gold medal, and again on graduating to the degree of LL.B., in 1858, Mr. Bowlby obtained the University gold medal in law, he being the first person who ever had that honour from the Toronto University.

Mr. Bowlby studied law in the office of the law firm of Wilson, Patterson & Beaty, of Toronto, which firm was then composed of the present Chief Justice Wilson. Judge Patterson, and Mr. James Beaty, Q.C., M.P., and he was called to the bar and admitted as a solicitor in May, 1858, and has now practised the legal profession for over twenty-seven years in Berlin. Mr. Bowlby is a member of the law firm of Bowlby & Clement, one of the leading law firms in the County of Waterloo, and is a sound lawyer, a good counsellor, an excellent cross-examiner of witnesses, and a shrewd man of business. He is also a solicitor for two of the chartered banks doing business at Berlin and Waterloo, and is solicitor for one of the largest insurance companies in Ontario. During his long professional career he has argued many important cases in the High Court at Toronto, and in the Supreme Court at Ottawa, and has always enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, and been in every way most successful, and is financially rated as one of the wealthiest citizens of Berlin.

Mr. Bowlby has often been a member of the town and county councils; was reeve of Berlin from 1863 to 1868, and has been a member of the Public School Board of Berlin for the past twenty years, and has always done his utmost to promote the interests of education. In February, 1862, the Cartier-Macdonald Government issued a proclamation dividing the County of Waterloo into two registration districts, and offered Mr. Howlby the position of registrar of North Waterloo at Berlin, but, in consequence of the fact that the old registrar afterwards elected to retain the registrarship at Berlin, the Government appointed Mr. Bowlby registrar of South Waterloo, at Preston, on March 17th, 1862, and although he, at first, accepted the office and performed its duties for a length of time, yet he refused to comply with the law requiring him to remove his place of residence from Berlin to Preston, as he would not give up his law practice at Berlin for the registrarship at Preston, and a change of government having taken place in the meantime steps were thereupon taken to abolish the new registry office for South Waterloo, and on October 15th, 1863, under the auspices of the Macdonald-Dorion Government, there was passed the Act of Parliament. 27 Viet. cap. 35, whereby the ridings of Waterloo were re-united for registration purposes. Mr. Bowlby was appointed to the offices of County Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace for the County of Waterloo, by the first Provincial Government of Ontario, on December 24th, 1867, which offices he has ever since held, and in both of which he has given every satisfaction.

Mr. Bowlby has travelled much in foreign parts, having crossed the Atlantic several times, and in the years 1877 and 1880, in company with his wife and daughter, he made a tour of fourteen months abroad and visited all the principal cities and places of interest in Great Britain and continental Europe. He is a member of the Church of England. Holding government offices for the last eighteen years, he has not recently taken any part in political matters, but in politics he is now generally supposed to be in sympathy with the Liberal party. Mr. Bowlby has one of the prettiest and most delightful residences in Berlin, situate in an enclosure of eleven acres, surrounded by a beautiful well-kept lawn, dotted over with clumps of evergreens, deciduous trees and shrubbery, and here and there flanked with spruce and cedar hedges. Mr. Bowlby has four brothers, viz., Alfred Bowlby, Esq., M.D., of Waterford ; William Bowlby. Esq., of Simcoe ; D. S. Bowlby, Esq, MD of Berlin, and J. W. Bowlby, Esq., LL. B., barrister, of Brantford ; and he has an only sister, Mary Ursula, wife of Col. Walker Powell, the Adjutant-General at Ottawa. Mr. Bowlby was married on April 10th, 1861, to Lissie, eldest daughter of the late J. Hespeler, Esq., founder of the village of Hespeler, and he has an only child, a daughter, Annie Hespeler Bowlby, now the wife of George H. Perley, Esq., a junior partner in the well-known and extensive lumbering firm of Perley & Pattee, of Ottawa


A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography Being Chiefly Men of the Time. Vol. No. 11886

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Ward Hamilton Bowlby, a prominent lawyer in Berlin and Waterloo County Crown Attorney for half-a-century, won the first gold medal in law awarded by the University of Toronto. A traveller of note, he wrote a book on his experiences during a trip up the Nile in 1899.

He attended Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, from which he graduated in arts in 1856 and in law in 1858. He was a senior partner in the law firm of Bowlby, Colquhoun, and Clement, later Bowlby and Clement, from 1858 to 1903. A sound lawyer, a reliable counsellor and a trenchant prosecutor, he argued many important cases in the High Court at Toronto and the Supreme Court at Ottawa.

Bowlby was a member of the town and county councils, Reeve of Berlin from 1863 to 1868 and for thirty years was a member of the Public School Board.

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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Bowlby, W. H., barrister-at-law. Has been Reeve of the town four years, also County Crown Attorney and Clerk of the Peace. Was born in Norfolk Co., Ont., 1834, and has resided here since 1858.

Illustrated Atlas of the County of Waterloo, H. Parsel & Co., Toronto - 1881

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Ward H. Bowlby, K. C., Reeve 1865-6-7-8.

Mr. Ward H. Bowlby, K. C. for the past forty-five years Crown Attorney of Waterloo County, was Reeve of the village of Berlin in 1865-6-7-8 and to-day is the only survivor of the Village Council of that day. The meetings of the Council were held in a frame building where now stands the Fire Hall and many interesting sessions were held. The idea of a greater Berlin was manifest at that time and the progress and welfare of the village was the chief aim of the councillors. He has watched with pleasure the growth of Berlin, from a village to a town and now to a city, and wishes it continued prosperity.

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

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The Waterloo office of Miller Thomson LLP is celebrating its sesquicentennial -- marking 150 years of serving the legal needs in its community. Founded in 1858 by Ward Hamilton Bowlby, Sims Clement Eastman, which merged with Miller Thomson, was one of the oldest law offices in Ontario. Starting as W.H. Bowlby, Barrister and Solicitors, a new partnership in 1876 saw the firm grow to three partners: Bowlby, Edwin Perry Clement and Frederick Colquhoun. In fact, the Clement family name remained with the firm until 2002 -- when it partnered with Miller Thomson LLP. Miller Thomson's Waterloo office has 35 lawyers supported by 78 administrative and professional staff working at its office located in the Accelerator Centre building at the University of Waterloo Research and Technology Park.<sup>6a

6a</sup>Waterloo Chronicle Newspaper 14 May 2008

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WARD H. BOWLBY, M.A., K.C.

Ward Hamilton Bowlby, appointed in the fall of 1867 by the first government of Ontario as Crown Attorney and clerk of the peace for the county of Waterloo, in which position he is still serving, was for many years an active practitioner at the Bar of his district with a large and liberal clientage. He was born October 4, 1834, in Waterford, Norfolk county, Ontario, a son of Adam and Elizabeth (Sovereign) Bowlby. The father was a native of Annapolis county, Nova Scotia, and of United Empire Loyalist descent, his ancestors having removed to Nova Scotia from New Jersey in 1783. Adam Bowlby was born in 1792 and at the time of the War of 1812 he served as a captain in command of a company of coast guardsmen to prevent the landing of privateers on the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Following the close of hostilities he settled in Norfolk county, Upper Canada (now Ontario), where his uncle, Thomas Bowlby, had resided since 1786. He married Elizabeth Sovereign in 1819, and their family in the course of years numbered five sons and one daughter, Ward H. Bowlby being the fifth in order of birth. His brothers were: William Bowlby of Simcoe, now deceased; Dr. D. S. Bowlby, who for some years practised at Berlin, but passed away at Rome in Italy while on a trip abroad ; and Dr. Alfred H. Bowlby, who at the age of eighty-six years is still practising medicine at Waterford. The sister is the wife of Colonel Walker Powell of Ottawa, ex-adjutant general of the Dominion, and the youngest member of the family is J. W. Bowlby, K.C., now mayor of Brantford.

Educated in a private school at Woodhouse Rectory near Simcoe, in the Simcoe grammar school, St. Thomas grammar school, the Streetsville grammar school and the Toronto University, Mr. Bowlby won the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1856, of Master of Arts in 1857 and of Bachelor of Laws in 1858, taking the Jameson gold medal in arts in 1856 and the University gold medal in law in 1858. He entered upon the active practice of his profession in Berlin in the spring of 1858 and for many years was a prominent barrister, whose ability was indicated by the important character of the professional duties that devolved upon him. In December, 1867, he was appointed by the first government of Ontario Crown Attorney and clerk of the peace for the county of Waterloo, which offices he now holds, but he retired from practising law in January, 1903.

In 1861 Mr. Bowlby was married to Miss Lesa, the eldest daughter of the late Jacob Hespeler, the founder of the town of Hespeler, Waterloo county. They have one daughter, Annie, now the wife of George H. Perley, M.P., the Ottawa millionaire lumber king, whose operations in lumber have gained him pre-eminence as a representative of that line of business in Canada. Mr. Bowlby is a member of the Church of England. He has always stood for that which promotes intellectual and moral progress and while an active practitioner at the Bar maintained the highest standard of professional ethics and, although his devotion to his clients' interests was proverbial, he never forgot that he owned a still higher allegiance to the majesty of the law.

The History of Ontario: Its Resouces and Developement.

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In the late 1860s, Berlin barrister Ward H. Bowlby and wife Lissie Hespeler purchased about 10 acres at King and Wilmot (renamed Victoria South in the 1930s), erecting "Bow Hill," one of the village's first elegant estates. In 1918, Lissie, now a widow, sold her property to Ames, Holden, McCready, a rubber firm presided over by T.H. Rieder of Kitchener. It was the third rubber company Rieder had helped found locally '97 Merchants and Canadian Consolidated (later Dominion) being the first two. Three years after the huge factory was built behind Bow Hill, Rieder died and B.F. Goodrich of Akron, Ohio assumed control. For the next 60 years, Goodrich tires and rubber products poured out of the factory. By the late 1980s, following purchase by global rubber conglomerates, both Dominion and Goodrich were doomed. When the King Street factory closed, a group of ex-Goodrich employees operated the plant as Epton Industries. Epton closed in December 1995 and within two years, all traces of the vast five-storey factory had been erased. A decade-plus later, the City of Kitchener and University of Waterloo filled Abraham Weber's old farmstead site with one of the most striking architectural gems in the city.

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Foundry [Ontario Street] to Queen Street- Almost the whole of this block was a spongy swamp, with willow trees along the edge. Cattle could scarcely go into it as they would sink. Up to 1850 there was no building up to Gaukel's Hotel at the corner of Queen Street. Along the street front there was an elevated sidewalk erected on cedar posts with stringers. The sidewalk was about six feet wide and high enough to enable boys to explore underneath as, of course, they used to do. About 1858, Osborne Spiers & Co., erected a three-storey brick building, later known as Spiers' Block, on the Foundry Street corner. The building contained two stores fronting on King Street, one occupied by Wm. Spiers as a grocery and wine and spirit merchant, and the other a dry goods store first occupied by Mr. Stanton and later by W. H. G. Knowles who had been clerk at Stanton's.

The members of the first Berlin band, organized in 1855, had rooms on the third floor of the building and met there for practice, Next to Spiers Block there was for many years a vacant lot and next to that a small, one-storey frame building with gable toward King Street, ten feet back from the street line, used by Wm. Brown, the first stone cutter and tombstone maker in Berlin. He was also painter, paper-hanger, glazer, and dealer in marble and stone. Next to this, about 1856, Lelinen Brothers had a frame building one storey and a half high, occupied as tinsmith shop and store for tinware, the shop being at the rear. In 1860 this building was replaced by the Snyder Block, a narrow, three-story brick building. Frederick Snyder, who had been apprentice at Lehnen Bros., had this building. He was very industrious and in the habit of working until one and two o'clock in the morning when he came to own the business.

Next was a frame building, a story and a half, partly occupied by Charles Geddes, seedsman, and partly by the office of W. H. Bowlby, barrister and attorney-at-law, later County Crown Attorney.


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

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On the Bite of the Weber farm buildings Crown Attorney W. H. Bowlby had his place, Bowhill, for many years.* The fine house, built in 1861, was latterly the office of the Goodrich Company, until it was torn down in 1930.

*See W. H. Bowlby biography, 1917 Report W.H.S.


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







Elected Office:
Municipality : Berlin Years on local council: Reeve 1865-68
Years on Waterloo County Council 1865 1866 1867 1868

Ward married Elizabeth "Lissie" Hespeler 10 Apr 1861, Hespeler (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob George Hespeler, Esq. and Elisabeth "Lissie" "Lizzie" "Elise" Knoth) was born 5 Nov 1839, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 11 Jan 1920, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-34052

— Boyd. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155766962
• Name: Jane Elizabeth "Janie" Clement
• Name: Jane Elizabeth Bowlby
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36110
• Residence: 1861, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1942, 214 King St. S., Waterloo, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

The death occurred yesterday of Mrs. Janie Elizabeth Bowlby Clement, widow of the late E. P. Clement, K.C., at her residence, 214 King Street South, Waterloo. Mrs. Clement was 84 years of age. Of United Empire Loyalist stock, a daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. D. S. Bowlby, Mrs. Clement was born in Kitchener on April 18, 1858. Although she was the oldest child, her two brothers and two sisters all predeceased her. Her husband died on August 22, 1924. A member of Trinity United Church, Mrs. Clement had been active in the Women's Missionary Society since its organization in 1890, as well as in the Ladies' Aid and other church societies. Interested in all community welfare enterprises, she was the first secretary of the Kitchener-Waterloo Hospital Ladies' Auxiliary, formed in January, 1895, and the first corresponding secretary of the Kitchener Y.W.C.A. Board, established in April, 1905. She leaves to mourn three sons, Charles B. of Toronto, Edwin O. of Penetang and William P. of Kitchener, and two daughters, Mrs. Fred B. Kelly of Guelph and Miss Florence Clement of Waterloo. Another son, David Ward, was killed in the First Great War on Dec. 3, 1917, while engaged in air operations in France. There are also surviving four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The funeral service will be held at the Schreiter-Sandrock Funeral Home on Friday afternoon at 2: 30 o'clock. Burial will take place in Mount Hope Cemetery.

Kitchener Daily Record July 29, 1942 page 15

Jane — Edwin Perry Clement. Edwin (son of Rev. Edwin Clement and Mary Couch Pope) was born 19 Oct 1853, Simcoe, Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada; died 22 Aug 1924, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-135583
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

Other Events:

• Military: WW1
• Name: G. H. Bowlby
• Name: Herbert Bowlby
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-38626P
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Occupation: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1894, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Physician - Doctor - Dr.
• Elected Office: 1896, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Mayor - councillor - Kitchener
• Residence: 1897, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doctor
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Doctor
• Residence: 1911, 11 Weber St. W., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Corporal, Calvery,
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Major

Notes:

MAJOR G. H. Bowlby

On Sunday morning, November 12th, news came to Kitchener, Ont., his native city, that Major G. H. Bowlby, Director of Medical Service, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, had met his death in a fall from a cliff near Seaford, on the south coast of England. The City Hall flag was placed at half mast in token of respect to the memory of this distinguished citizen and ex-mayor.

George Herbert Bowlby, elder son of the late Dr. D. S. and Martha Murphy Bowlby, was born July 16th, 1865. His great grandfather, an early United Empire Loyalist, left the State of New Jersey to settle in Nova Scotia. His grandfather, as a young man, was Captain of Coast Guards, in Nova Scotia, in the war of 1812.

After preliminary education at the public and high schools of his native place, and a year at St. Jerome's College, he took the course in medicine at Trinity Medical College, Toronto, and later took post graduate work in England where he became Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. For some years he was in partnership with his father in the practice of his profession. Devoting himself more particularly to surgery, in which he eventually became eminent, he again went abroad for study and exper ience in Vienna and elsewhere. In 1906 he returned to resume regular prac tice. He was for some years identified with the County cavalry regiment, known as Grey's Horse, of which he was medical officer, with the rank of Captain. He was on the Medical Advisory Committee of the local hospital, in which he took keen interest. Dr. Bowlby was for some years in the Town Council and was Mayor in 1901.

The breaking out of the war naturally found a man of Dr. Bowlby 's patriotism and antecedents anxious to do his part. On application he received appointment on hospital service in England, with retention of his previous rank of Captain, and left this city in July 1915. He was active at the military hospital, Shorncliffe, England, later at Bath, and recently at Seaford. Shortly before his tragic death he was promoted to be Director of Medical Service, and to the rank of Major.

From his school days G. H. Bowlby was prominent in sports. He was a member of the famous Berlin High School football eleven in the early eighties. He was a member of the Waterloo County Golf and Country Club, and charter member of the Grand River Country Club. He was a past warden of St. John's Anglican Church.

In 1894 he married Adine, only daughter of Joseph E. Seagram, Esq. Mrs. Bowlby accompanied her husband to England. Of the Waterloo Historical Society, Dr. Bowlby was an active and helpful Member of Council from its beginning.

Fourth Annual Report of the Waterloo Historical Society, 1916

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Dr. G. H. Bowlby, Mayor 1901.

Dr. G. H. Bowlby, M. R. C. S. was the first native of Berlin elected mayor. He was educated at Trinity Medical College, Toronto, and in London, England. He entered the council in 1896. For two years he was chairman of the Market Committee and for three years chairman of the Sewer Committee. In 1901, he was elected mayor. His year was marked by the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York (now King George and Queen Mary). Locally, a deputation was sent to Saginaw, Mich., to investigate the sugar beet industry; as a result the sugar factory was established in Berlin. Dr. Bowlby is a progressive.

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

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G. HERBERT BOWLBY, M.D. FOUND DEAD AT BOTTOM OF CLIFF

Well-Known Kitchener physician Meets With Sudden and Tragic End of Seaford, England - Was Assistant Director of Medical Service
WITH ARMY MEDICAL CORPS SINCE JULY, 1915

"Dr. Herbert Bowlby is dead," was the shocking information which was circulated throughout the city with great rapidity on Sunday morning, after the message had been received by relatives in the city about 10: 30 o'clock announcing that Capt. G. Herbert Bowlby, M.D., had been found dead at the foot of a cliff near Seaford. Within a few minutes of receiving the news in the city a number of the civic flags were lowered to half-mast out of respect to the memory of the deceased.

The message was sent from Ottawa by the Officers in charge of Records, and was addressed to Mrs. Adin S. Bowlby, 11 Weber St., W., wife of the deceased officer, who is also in England. Mr. Reinhold Lang, who is occupying the Bowlby residence, telephoned to Capt. T.W. Seagram, Paymaster of the 118th Battalion; informing him that a message was received announcing the death of Dr. Bowlby. The relatives of Dr. Bowlby were immediately notified and the news came as a severe and unexpected shock to all. The message was as follows: - "Deeply regret to inform you that Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Service, Seaford, reports November 11th, 1916, Captain George Herbert Bowlby, A.D. M.S. Embarkation, Shoreham-in-Sea, was found dead at foot of cliff near Seaford. Further particulars will be sent when available."

Late in the afternoon a brief cablegram was received by relatives from Mrs. Bowlby with this information "Herbert dead." It is expected that further information as to the tragic death of the late Dr. Bowlby will be received direct from England today.

The Late Dr. Bowlby

The late Capt. G. Herbert Bowlby, M.D., L.R.C.P., A.D.S.M., was born in this city in July fifty-one years ago, and has lived here the greater portion of his life. He was a son of the late Dr. D.S. Bowlby and is a direct descendant of the United Empire Loyalists who came to Canada at the time of the revolutionary war in the United States. His ancestors originated in Nottingham, England. Richard Bowlby, of whom the doctor is a direct descendant, came to America with the celebrated William Penn, the founder of the state of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bowlby was educated at the Public and High Schools in this city, and also took a course at St. Jerome's College. He was a graduate of Toronto University, where he received his degree in medicine. He had since become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London and also was a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians.

During his school days he was prominently identified with the athletic activities of the student and was goal keeper for the famous High School football team of 1877 to 1882. He was also identified with various cricket clubs in this city and in Toronto.

Dr. Bowlby was medical officer of the grey's Home and at the last encampment attended the lectures on army hospital work and field ambulance work, and after passing the necessary examinations took the rank of Captain, which was recognized by the military authorities when he offered his service with the Army Medical Corps with the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. He left this city in July of 1915 to assume his duties and since arriving in England has been on duty in the large military Hospitals at Shorncliffe and more recently at Bath. He was recently appointed Assistant Director of Medical Service.

Since he has been on hospital duty in England, Dr. Bowlby has written many interesting letters to his aged mother, Mrs. D.S. Bowlby, 57 Margaret Avenue, in which he gave vivid descriptions of the scenic beauties surrounding the tow institutions at Shorncliffe and Bath. It is supposed that while taking a walk to view the scenery around the Hospital at Bath that he met with an accident which resulted in his death as reported by the military authorities.

During his residence in the city Dr. Bowlby took an active interest in municipal affairs and served several years in the Council and was Mayor of the town in 1901. He always took a keen interest in the welfare of the K-W Hospital and at the time of his death was a member of the Medical Advisory Committee. He was also a former Medical Health Officer. Since the commencement of the war he was active in the various patriotic enterprises of the city.

The late Dr. Bowlby is survived by his wife, who is a daughter of Jos. E. Seagram, ex-M.P., his aged mother, two sisters, Mrs. E.P. Clement, and Mrs. J.P. Fennell, and one brother D. Shannon Bowlby, all of Kitchener. It is not definitely known whether the remains will be brought to this city for burial.

Note: Picture attached to newspaper article.

Berlin Daily Telegraph 13 Nov 1916 pg 1, 5

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BOWLBY, GEORGE HERBERT was born in Berlin on July 16, 1865, a son of Dr. David S. Bowlby. He received his preliminary education in the local schools, and attended Trinity Medical School, Toronto, receiving his medical degree there. He then took postgraduate work in England, obtaining the degrees of Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, following this by attendance at hospitals in Vienna and Berlin.

In January 1890 he returned home and entered practice in association with his father.

He became involved in municipal affairs, being elected to Council in 1896, and in 1901 became mayor, the first native of Berlin to fill that position.

In July of 1903 he sold his practice to Mr. C. J. W. Karn of Picton, it being his intention to take further postgraduate work in surgery and then locate in some large city. After a year and a half he returned, purchasing the practice of the late Dr. W. J. Arnott. He occupied the house on Weber Street between Ontario and Queen Streets, whose last medical resident was Dr. George Watson.

He was active in the reserve, being Medical Officer of Grey's Horse, the county cavalry regiment. When the war broke out he volunteered his services, and in 1915 was appointed to hospital service in England. His assignment was to hospitals where Canadian troops were undergoing treatment.

On November 12, 1916, shortly after being appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services, he died near Seaford in a fall from a cliff.

He was survived by his widow, the former Adine Seagram.

From: Doctors in Waterloo County 1852-1925 by Alexander D. Campbell

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Canadian officer - he died at Seaford, Sussex, England in a fall from a cliff - his remains were cremated & were believed to have been returned for burial to Kitchener.

Med. Note:
Coroners report available East Sussex Records Office ref. COR/1/3/404 - date: 14 Nov 1916 States "George Herbert, Captain, Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Supplies, Canadian Forces, London Area at Seaford, 52; seen to fall off Seaford Head, had felt severe head pains for previous fortnight; accidental death"

Elected Office:
Years Served: 1896-97, 1898-99 (Deputy Reeve), 1900, 1901 (Mayor)

George married Blanche Alexandrine "Alexandra" "Adine" Seagram 18 Apr 1894, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Blanche (daughter of Joseph Emm Seagram and Stephanie Erbs) was born 24 Aug 1871, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 19 Jul 1919, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , St. John The Evangelist Church of England, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Name: Grace Esther Fennell
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-38726
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1918, 42 Margaret Avenue, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, 42 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

Grace — James Philip Fennell. James (son of John Fennell and Alicia Jackson) was born 5 Feb 1867, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1948; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Business: 19 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; lawyer office
• Name: D. S. Bowlby
• Name: Shannon Bowlby
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-38727
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Factory Employee
• Occupation: 1904, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; lawyer
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; ?
• Residence: 1911, 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Occupation: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Attorney County
• Residence: 1921, 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1938, 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Former Crown Attorney Passes At Kitchener
D. Shannon Bowlby Dies Suddenly
At Age of 65

David Shannon Bowlby, former Crown Attorney for Waterloo County, died suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Kitchener about 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning.

The deceased was born in Kitchener on January 24th, 1873, and was in his 66th year. He was a son of the late Dr. and Mrs. David Bowlby. In his death a familiar figure in legal and social circles of the twin city is removed.

The late Mr. iBowlby graduated from Toronto University in 1895 with the degree of bachelor of arts and he received the degree of bachelor of laws in 1896. He was called to the bar in 1898 after attending Osgoode Hall.

He was appointed crown attorney for Waterloo County in 1917 upon the death of his uncle, the late Ward Bowlby, K.C.

Mr. Bowlby was a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association. He was a past president of the Canadian Club and a member of the K.-W. Kiwanis Club. He attended St. John's Anglcan Church.

Mr. Bowlby was one of the few survivors of the old Berlin Harp, Mandolin and Guitar Club which was composed of Arthur Jones, Karl Kranz, Ed. Seagram, Hedley Hilborn, David Bowman, Ed. Riener and John Landreth.

Surviving him are his widow, nee Lillian Barnes, one son, Shannon Bowlby, and one daughter, Mrs. Norman M. Davidson, both of Kitchener. One sister, Mrs. E. P. Clement, and three grandchildren are also left to mourn his loss.

Following the death of his uncle, Ward Bowlby, K. C., in 1917 he held the position of crown attorney until November, 1934, when he was succeeded in office by his nephew, W. P. Clement, K, O. Since that time he has conducted a private legal practice at 19 Queen Street north, Kitchener

Hamburg Independent 14 Oct 1938

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David Shannon Bowlby, K.C.

David Shannon Bowlby was born in Berlin, now Kitchener, on January 24th, 1873, and died there on October 11th, 1938. He came of an old United Empire Loyalist family, well- known in Norfolk, Brant and Waterloo counties. His great grandfather left the state of New Jersey and settled in Nova Scotia in 1783. His grandfather, Adam Bowlby, was a captain of coast guards in Nova Scotia in the War of 1812. His father,
Dr. David Sovereign Bowlby, was for many years the most notable physician and surgeon in Waterloo County.

David Shannon Bowlby received his early education in this city and later at Toronto University where he attained the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1895 and that of Bachelor of Laws in 1896. After attending Osgoode Hall and reading law with Clute, MacDonald and Company in Toronto, he was called to the bar in 1898.

He was for some years in the office of Bowlby and Clement and then practised his profession for a while in Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. Returning to his native town he practised in partnership with the late W. M. Cram and afterward by himself. Upon the death of his uncle, Ward H. Bowlby, K.C., in 1917, he succeeded him as Crown Attorney of Waterloo County. This office he held until 1934 when his nephew, W. P. Clement, K.C., succeeded him. Thereafter he continued in local practice.

David Shannon Bowlby was a member of the Canadian Bar Association and of the Ontario Bar Association. He was a past president of the Kitchener and Waterloo Canadian Club and of the Kiwanis Club. He was a member of Twin City Lodge, A.F. & A.M., and of Kitchener Chapter, R.A.M. He was a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Mason and belonged to the Shrine.

A keen golfer, he belonged to the Grand River Country Club and later the Westmount Golf and Country Club. He was a member of St. John's Anglican Church.

In 1904 he married Miss Lillian Barnes, formerly of Providence, Rhode Island, who with one son, Shannon Bowlby, and a foster-daughter, Mrs. Norman Davison, constituted his immediate family.

Waterloo Historical Society Annual Volume 1938

David married Lillian Caroline "Lilly" Barnes 23 Jul 1904, Preston (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Lillian (daughter of John D. Barnes and Carolina Magdalena Hoffmann) was born 7 Dec 1877, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Artifact: Kitchener Daily Record Newspaper, Kitchener, , Ontario, Canada; Brass plaque
• Name: Annie Hespeler Perley
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-135227
• Residence: 1871, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England
• Residence: 1884, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Artifact:
Approximate Item Size in inches:
Height: 28 inches
Length: 18 inches
Depth:1.3 inches
Approximate Weight: 18.4 Lbs.

Annie married Rt. Hon. Sir George Halsey Perley, MP. 4 Jun 1884, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. George was born 12 Sep 1857, Lebanon, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States; died 4 Jan 1938, Nepean, Carleton Co., Ontario; was buried , Beechwood Cemetery, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189103
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Other Events:

• Occupation: Loan Manager, Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36111
• Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Clerk
• Immigration: 1911, , Ontario, Canada
• Occupation: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Insurance Cashier, Insurance Office
• Residence: 1911, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1942, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Charles B. Clement

EDMONTON, A memorial service for Charles B. Clement of Edmonton. Alta., formerly of the Twin Cities, was held today at Christ (Anglican) Church, Edmonton. Mr. Clement, 91, died Dec. 24. Born in Kitchener, he was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Clement. He was the oldest pensioner of the Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada, having started with the company, in 1896. In 1917, he left the firm's head office in Waterloo, to become loan manager in the Winnipeg branch. Subsequently, he served as loan manager in the company's Edmonton, Vancouver and Toronto branches, before retiring in December, 1944. His wife, the former Gertrude Unger, one sister and two brothers, predeceased him. Surviving are one son, Mr. Justice, Carl W. Clement of Edmonton, one brother, W. P. Clement of Kitchener; one sister, Florence of Waterloo: two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 28 Dec 1970 pg 25

Charles married Gertrude Unger 30 Jun 1902, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada. Gertrude (daughter of Councillor John Unger and Mary "Polly" Bowman) was born 5 Oct 1880, , Ontario, Canada; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137901401
• Name: Blanche Mildred Kelly
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36112
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1942, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada

Blanche married Frederick Bowman Kelly 16 Jun 1915, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Frederick was born 13 Mar 1887, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; died 8 Aug 1984, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Guelph City, Wellington Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-169474

Notes:

On the 4th inst., the infant daughter of Mr. E. P. Clement, Berlin.

Galt Reporter Jun 8 1883 pg 8

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99377593
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36113
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Occupation: 1901, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Banker, Merchant
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, 64th Depot Battery, Service # 335280
• Occupation: 1925, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States; accountant
• Residence: 1942, Penetanguishene, Tiny Township, Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada

Notes:

Edwin O. Clement

Edwin O. Clement, 68, a native of Kitchener, died at his home, Saturday in Penetang. He was son of the late Mr. and Mrs. E.P. Clement. Following his education in local and public high schools, he entered the local branch of the Merchant's Bank and later was on staff of that bank at Yorkton, Sask., and London, Ont. Subsequently, he joined the Union Staff Company in Detroit and retired to manage the Penetang store of his father-in-law after his [rest of obituary was not photocopied]

Kitchener-Waterloo Record 25 Jan 1953

Edwin married Helen Keefer Thompson 18 Aug 1924, Penetanguishene, Tiny Township, Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada. Helen was born 20 Jun 1894, Penetanguishene, Tiny Township, Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1968; was buried , Saint James on the Lines Cemetery, Penetanguishene, Tiny Township, Simcoe Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Elected Office: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; mayor - councillor - Kitchener
• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164684134
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36114P
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1910, 51 Benton St., Kitchener, Ontario
• Occupation: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Student
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Music: 1914, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; The Musicial The "BulBul"
• Residence: 1920, 71 Heins Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1936, 255 Mary St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1942, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1969, 225 Mary St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1981, Valhalla Inn, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

William P. Clement, a native of Berlin, Ontario, served his community for many decades with distinction, especially as alderman for four years, and as Mayor in 1929 and 1930. In 1945 he played a prominent part in organizing the K-W Symphony Orchestra, in which he played the viola for twenty-five years. He was a Life Director of the Symphony.

He was educated in local schools, Victoria College of the University of Toronto, and Osgoode Hall Law School. After graduation, he entered into a law partnership with his father, E.P. Clement and his cousin, E.W. Clement. In 1936, he was appointed a Queen's Counsel, and in 1945 was elected a Bencher of the Provincial Law Society, of which he is a life member. He was secretary of the Berlin Board of Trade and for seventeen years was County Crown Attorney.

Clement served three local churches as organist: Trinity Methodist (now Trinity United), St. Andrew's Presbyterian and the Christian Science Church. He was an honourary member of the Kitchener Rotary and also a Life Member of Twin City Lodge, Masonic Order (A.F. & A.M.)

Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

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CLEMENT, William P. - At St. Mary's Hospital, Kitchener, on Friday, May 21, 1982, age 94 years. For many years head of Clement, Eastman, Dreger, Martin and Meunier law firm, former crown attorney and mayor of the City of Kitchener and life bencher at the Law Society of Upper Canada; a member of the Kitchener Rotary Club. Predeceased by his wife, Muriel and daughter, Elizabeth Stewart. Survived by his sister. Florence of Cambridge (P): his daughter, Margaret Forbes of Toronto; four grandchildren. Janet and William R. Stewart of London, Ont. and .Jock and Diana Forbes of Sudbury. Also survived by three great-grandchildren. Visitation at the Schreiter-Sandrock Funeral Home, 51 Benton St., Kitchener, today from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Transfer will be made on Wednesday, May 26. to Pro Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, 23 Water St., Kitchener, for funeral services at 11 a.m., Archdeacon Cyril Ladds officiating. Interment Kitchener Mount Hope cemetery. Donations to North Waterloo Society for Crippled Children or the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra Association would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record, May 5, 1982, page 50

Elected Office:
Years Served: 1923-26, 1929-30 (Mayor)

Music:
Cast members of the amateur production of "Bulbul", a comic operetta performed at the town hall of Waterloo May 19-20, 1914.

Left to right: John Bruegeman; Eleanor Kirsch; E.W. McKenzie; Gladys Devitt; Dr. Thomas Towers; Lottie Ahrens; William Clement; F.J. Rooney.

Cast of Operetta 'BulBul', Waterloo, Ontario (no date) Waterloo Public Library Digital Collections. Available at: https://images.ourontario.ca/waterloo/47847/data?n=11 (Accessed: 26 November 2023).

William married Muriel Alberta Kerr 23 Jun 1915, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Muriel (daughter of Charles Staple Kerr and Mary Alberta Knight) was born 3 Jun 1895, Woodstock, Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; died 1975; was buried , Mount Hope Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155765590
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36115
• Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Residence: 1942, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

Notes:

CLEMENT, Florence Grace At Preston Springs Gardens, Cambridge, Ont., on April 23, 1988, formerly of Waterloo and previously of Kitchener.

Daughter of the late Edwin P.. Clement, KC and Janie Bowlby. Born in Berlin, Ont., 1889. Predeceased by brothers, Charles B., Edwin O., William P., David Ward; a sister, Blanche Kelly and a niece. Betty Clement Stewart.

Survived by her nephew, Mr. Justice Carlton Clement of Edmonton and nieces. Peg Forbes and Christine Hebscher of Toronto and Julia McKillip of Midland and grand nieces and nephews. Janet E. Stewart, QC and William R. Stewart of London. Ont., J.D W. (Jock) Forbes and Diana ME. Forbes of Sudbury and M. Edward Hebscher of Toronto.

A memorial service will be held in the chapel of the Schreiter Sandrock Funeral Home, 51 Benton St., Kitchener, formerly the E.P. Clement family home, at 2 p.m. Saturday. April 30, 1988. Following the service, interment will be held at Mount Hope cemetery, Kitchener.

In lieu of flowers, donations to K-W Interfaith Pastoral Counselling Services, 74 Frederick St., Kitchener, Ont., N2H 2L7; Trinity United Church Chapel, 74 Frederick St., Kitchener, N2H 2L7 or the CNIB. 180 King St. S., Waterloo, Ont., N2J 1P8. would be appreciated.

Kitchener-Waterloo Record, April 29, 1988, page B13:

Other Events:

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56489882
• Military: WW1
• Residence: Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 51 Benton St., Kitchener, Ontario
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-36116P
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Aviation Gunner, 118th Batalion / 5th Battalion / 42nd Battalion
• Military: 1914, WW1; WW1, Service #228986

Other Events:

• Name: Patricia G. Vaughan
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-324698
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1921, 42 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England

Patricia — Rev. Harold W. Vaughan. Harold was born 1908; died 1989; was buried , Ayr Cemetery, Ayr, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189059
• Residence: 1911, 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican

Other Events:

• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-189060
• Residence: 1911, 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1911, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Anglican
• Residence: 1921, 16 Margaret Ave., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1921, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Church of England