TY - RPRT KW - Genealogy KW - Swiss KW - Industries KW - Agriculture KW - Mennonites KW - Woolwich Township KW - St Jacobs KW - Freeport KW - Baden KW - Pennsylvania Germans KW - Brubacher family KW - Martin family KW - Frey family KW - Bowman family KW - Allgeier family AU - Henry Bowman AB - A chronology of the Brubacher family, tracing ancestors back to 17th-century Switzerland and descendants to 1965. John W. Brubacher, the first member of the family to come to Canada, settled in Woolwich Township in 1825. The history focuses on the family of Henry Martin Brubacher, the fourth son of John W., who continued his father's interests in woollen mills. The text describes a sawmill owned by John W. on the bank of the Conestogo River, and woollen mills in St Jacobs, Chicopee and Baden. An index prepared by Elizabeth L. Schmadl in 1990 includes 861 names. C1 - Brubacher Family; Martin Family; Frey Family; Bowman Family; Allgeier Family; Brubacher, John W.; Brubacher, Catherine Martin; Brubacher, Michael; Brubacher, Peter; Brubacher, Elizabeth Bowman (m. Peter); Brubacher, Eva; Brubacher, Henry M.; Brubacher, Margaretta Allgeier (m. Henry M.); Brubacher, Magdalena Allgeier (m. Henry M.); Brubacher, Jacob; Gingrich, Noah; Snyder, William; Snyder, Alfred; Mielke, Edward; Tanner, John; Tanner, Currie; Brubacher, Elias; Brubacher, Henry C2 - Canada Felting Co., St Jacobs C3 - Woolwich Tp; St Jacobs; Freeport; Baden; Conestogo River C4 - 1825-1965 C7 - English(30) CY - Preston? 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 - 1947 LA - English M1 - Report M3 - Print(0) PB - The Author? PP - Preston? PY - 1965 SP - 31 p. index T1 - Ancestral record of Henry Martin Brubacher, 1838-1910 ER -