TY - ENCYC
KW - Pequegnat family
KW - Swiss
KW - Entrepreneurs
KW - Genealogy
KW - Biographies
KW - Businesses
KW - Berlin (Ontario)
KW - Kitchener
KW - 19th century
KW - 20th century
AU - Jane Varkaris
AU - Costas Varkaris
AB - A history of the large family of Ulysse and Francoise Pequegnat who arrived in Berlin from Switzerland in 1874. Various family members had clock and jewellery stores in Ontario towns and cities, including Waterloo and New Hamburg, managed in part from the central store in Berlin/Kitchener. Pequegnat family members were very closely involved in school, church and public affairs and intermarried with various other Berlin families, notably those of the Benton Street Baptist Church. Edmond (1884-1963) was secretary of the Berlin Public School Board from 1911 to 1942. Marcel (1886-1963), a professional engineer, played a key role in the developing the waterworks and in the origins of the Grand Valley Conservation Authority. Eugene (1888- 1974) worked for Mutual Life from 1908 to 1974. Mathilde (1876-1924) married Fred Boehmer and Angeline (1879-1963) married Benjamin Schulte, who worked for Dominion Rubber for 25 years. Information is presented on about 700 family members and on family businesses including The Arthur Pequegnat Clock Company and the Berlin and Racycle Manufacturing Company. The book also contains descriptions and photographs of the clocks and several of the clocks' workings. General, name and clock indexes are added.
C1 - Pequegnat Family; Pequegnat, Arthur; Pequegnat, Edmond; Pequegnat, Marcel; Pequegnat, Ulysse; Pequegnat, Francoise (m. Ulysse); Boehmer, Mathilde Pequegnat (m. F.H.); Schulte, Angeline Pequegnat (m. Benjamin)
C2 - Arthur Pequegnat Clock Co., Berlin; Berlin and Racycle Manufacturing Company; Berlin Public School Board; Grand Valley Conservation Authority; Benton Street Baptist Church, Kitchener; Mutual Life Assurance Co. of Canada; Dominion Rubber Co., Kitchener
C3 - Berlin; Kitchener; New Hamburg; Waterloo; Breslau
C4 -  1874-1982
C7 - English(30)
CY - Dubuque, IA
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 - 2200
LA - English
M1 - Book, Whole
M3 - Print(0)
PB - Kendall/Hunt Publishing
PP - Dubuque, IA
PY - 1982
EP - 187 p. ill.
EP - indexes
EP - bibl.+
T1 - The Pequegnat story: the family and the clocks
ER -