TY - ENCYC KW - Genealogy KW - Settlers KW - Germans KW - Farmers KW - Land ownership KW - Textile Industry KW - Financial institutions KW - Census records KW - Mennonites KW - Amish KW - Biographies KW - Immigration KW - Leis family KW - Wellesley Township KW - New Hamburg KW - Millbank KW - Kingwood KW - Alsace-Lorraine KW - Wellesley Bank KW - Maple View Mennonite Church Wellesley KW - Wellesley Mill End Store KW - Wellesley Shirt Factory AU - Ralph Lebold AB - A history of a family founded by Joseph, a German orphan who came to Canada in 1817 and began farming in Wellesley in 1844. His grandson, John B., was a farmer, an implement dealer, and the owner of a fruit store and harness shop in the Wellesley area. Census information, correspondence and land records have been reproduced, with family photographs, reminiscences and genealogical information. C4 - 1844-1979 C7 - English(30) 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 - 2138 LA - English M1 - Book, Whole M3 - Print(0) PY - 1979 SP - 50 p. ill. map T1 - The John B. Leis Family History and Genealogy ER -