TY - ECHAP KW - Amish KW - Swiss KW - Biographies KW - Wilmot Township KW - Land ownership KW - Nafziger Christian KW - German Block AU - Orland Gingerich AB - A biography of the leader of the Amish settlement in the German Block of Wilmot Township. The author explains the role of Nafziger (1776-1836) in negotiating land grants for Amish families and the difficulties in the late 1820s caused by the rival claims to the land by King's College. BT - Dictionary of Canadian Biography C1 - Nafziger, Christian; Erb, Jacob C3 - German Block; Wilmot Tp C4 - 1820-1836 C7 - English(30) CY - Toronto 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 - 2819 LA - English M1 - Book, Section M3 - Print(0) PB - University of Toronto Press PP - Toronto PY - 1988 EP - 642 EP - 7: 641+ T1 - Nafziger, Christian T2 - Dictionary of Canadian Biography ER -