TY - JOUR KW - Biographies KW - Mennonites KW - Businesses KW - Entrepreneurs KW - Saw mill industry KW - Farmers KW - Button industry KW - Shantz Jacob Y. KW - Berlin (Ontario) KW - Kitchener KW - 19th century KW - 20th century AU - Samuel Steiner AB - An account of the financial fortunes of Shantz (1822-1909), from his farming and sawmill business enterprises in the 1850s, the founding of the Dominion Button Works and other industries in the 1870s, to financial difficulties in 1884. The article is based on the author's research for his book-length biography of Shantz. BT - Mennogespräch C1 - Shantz, Jacob Y.; Shantz, Barbara Biehn (m. Jacob Y.); Shantz, Nancy Brubacher (m. Jacob Y.); Rickerman, Frederick; Boehm, Augustus; Vogelsang, Emil; Woelfle, John Jacob; Shantz, Moses; Shantz, Ephraim; Ebenau, Wilhelm; Shantz, Jacob B.; Eby, Christian; Eby, Elias; Shantz, Dilman; Shantz, John B.; Shantz, Susannah; Shantz, Sarah; Shantz, Ida; Shantz, Eunice; Bowman, Gabriel; Shantz, Veronica Weber; Shantz, Lucinda; Shantz, Harriet; Schneider, Joseph E.; Hoffman, John; Ahrens, Charles; Erb, Henry; Snider, Daniel; Histand, George; Boehmer, Henry; Trout, Samuel; Davidson, George; Bachmann, Heinrich; Hancock, J. Webster; Hoffman, Jacob; Correll, Michael; Moyer, Samuel S. C2 - Canadian Block, Berlin; Berlin Mechanics' Institute Library; Dominion Button Works, Berlin; A. and C. Boehmer, Berlin; Berlin Farmers' Market; Farmers' Manufactory, Berlin C3 - Berlin C4 - 1843-1914 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 - 2913 IS - 1 LA - English M1 - Journal Article M3 - Print(0) PY - 1987 SP - 1 EP - 5. ill. EP - bibl. EP - T1 - Jacob Y. Shantz: Mennonite businessman T2 - Mennogespräch VL - 5 ER -