TY - ENCYC KW - Genealogy KW - Biographies KW - Mennonites KW - Bridgeport KW - Waterloo KW - Waterloo Township KW - Shoemaker Jacob S. KW - Shoemaker family KW - Industries AU - August Boehmer AB - A brief genealogy of a Pennsylvania Mennonite family who settled in Waterloo Township. Jacob S. Shoemaker, founder of Bridgeport, came to the area in 1820, followed eight years later by his grandfather, Jacob Shoemaker and his family. There are biographical sketches of some family members. C1 - Shoemaker Family; Shoemaker, Jacob; Shoemaker, Mary Tyson; Shoemaker, Magdalena Longenecker; Shoemaker, Mary Shantz; Bechtel, Mary Shoemaker (m. George); Bechtel, George; Shoemaker, Jacob S.; Shoemaker, Elizabeth Schneider (m. Jacob S.); Erb, Abraham; Clemens, Joel; Huber, Barbara Shoemaker; Eby, Elias; Devitt, Barnabas; Shoemaker, Eliza Hall C3 - Waterloo Tp; Waterloo; Bridgeport C4 - 1820-1950 C7 - English(30) CY - Kitchener DP - Elizabeth Bloomfield. WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM. Most pre-1993 items are also included in the print work Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History. Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993. ID - 2286 LA - English M1 - Book, Whole M3 - Print(0) PB - The Author PP - Kitchener PY - 1951 SP - 10 l. chart T1 - Shoemaker family history from 1676 to 1951 ER -