@book{1667, keywords = {Mennonites, Genealogy, Pennsylvania Germans, Settlers, Immigration, Upper Canada, Waterloo Township}, author = {Ezra Eby}, title = {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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character}, abstract = {

A collection of biographical sketches of the mainly Pennsylvania German Mennonites who settled in Waterloo Township and adjoining areas in the first half of the nineteenth century. The details for nearly 8,500 pioneers and their descendants are organized alphabetically according to the 142 principal pioneer families identified by the author through exhaustive research. A 44-page introduction outlines the migrations of Mennonite families from Pennsylvania to Upper Canada between 1799 and 1835, the formation of the German Company, and the locations in which families settled. The main family names, all separately indexed in the Waterloo Regional Project's database, are Adolph, Albright, Baumann (also spelled Bauman and Bowman), Bear (formerly Baehr), Bearinger, Bechtel, Benner, Bergey (formerly Birgi), Betzner, Biehn (later spelled Bean), Bingeman, Bliehm (later spelled Bleam), Block, Bock, Bowers, Brech (later Breck), Bretz, Bricker, Brower, Brubacher, Burkhard, Burkholder, Cassel, Christner, Clemens, Clemmer, Cober, Cowan, Cress, Cressman, Detweiler (also spelled Dettweiler and Detwiler), Devitt, Eby, Erb, Ernst, Eshelman, Fordney, Fried, Gehman, Geiger, Gingerich, Gole, Good (formerly spelled Guth), Goudie, Grody, Groff (formerly Graff), Groh, Haas, Hagey, Hallman, Hammacher, Heckedon, Hembling, Herner, Hilborn, Histand, Hoffman, Holm, Honsberger, Horst, Hostetler, Huber, Janzen (later and also spelled Johnson), Jones, Kauffman, Keller, Kinzie (also Kinsey), Kinzinger, Koch, Kolb, Kraft, Latschaw, Levan, Lichty, Livergood, Lutz, Martin, Master (formerly Meschter), McNally, Meyer, Miller, Mohr, Moyer, Mosser, Musselman, Myers, Nahrgang, Oberholtzer, Pannebecker, Quickfall, Reichert, Reist, Reitzel, Rife (formerly Reiff), Ringler, Roat, Rosenberger, Rudell, Rudy, Saltzberger (later Salsberry), Sararas, Sauers, Scheifle (later Scheifley, Shifley or Shyflee), Scheirich (later Shiry), Sherk (formerly Schoerg or Sch”rg and later also Shirk), Schiedel, Schlichter, Schmidt, Schneider, Schroder, Shuh (formerly Schuh), Schwartz, Seibert, Shantz (formerly Tschantzen then Schantzen, and later also Schantz, Shants, or Shons), Shelly, Shoemaker (formerly Schuhmacher), Shupe, Sitler, Souder (also spelled Sauder), Springer, Stauffer, Stoeckle, Strickler, Strome (formerly Strohm), Thomas, Tohman, Tyson, Unger, Urmy, Wanner, Weber (also Weaver), Winger (also spelled Wenger), Wideman, Wile, Wildfong, Wing, Wismer, Wissler, Witmer, Woolner, Yost, Zeller and Ziegler. Users should note the supplement compiled by Joseph Snyder and published in 1931, and the indexes, notes and maps added by Eldon Weber who reprinted Ezra Eby's volumes in 1971.

}, year = {1895}, number = {Book, Whole}, pages = {2 v.+}, publisher = {The Author}, address = {Berlin}, language = {English}, }