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Brubacher family history
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A detailed account of four generations of Brubachers in North America from about 1710, including a family tree, locations of family members in Pennsylvania and Waterloo County, many given names and ...Keywords: FamiliesGenealogyBiographiesMennonitesPennsylvania GermansSwissBrubacher JohnEby BenjaminErnst AnnaBuckwalter AbrahamYear of publication: 1923Historical Period: 1800-1923Export options:Contribution of the Mennonites to the development of Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An essay in the special centennial issue about the role of Mennonites in settling Waterloo County and their subsequent contributions as farmers, entrepreneurs, educators, lawyers, clergy and ...Keywords: MennonitesAgricultureOccupationsWomenIndustriesSettlersPennsylvania GermansAmishWaterloo CountyBeasley's TractYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:Family records of the descendants of pioneer Joseph Bauman, also some records of David and Henry Bauman
Type: BookAbstract: A revised edition of Angus S. Bauman's {Family records} (1940). The genealogical charts and the name index are updated to 1967, but the family history at the front of the book, the essay "Glimpses of ...Keywords: MennonitesGenealogyBauman JosephBauman HenryBauman DavidBauman familyTransportationRoadsSettlers PennsylvaniaWaterloo CountyYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:History of the descendants of Daniel M. Weber, 1836-1888
Type: BookAbstract: A genealogy including biographical notes on many family members.Keywords: GenealogySettlersPennsylvaniaWeber familyMennonitesBiographiesWeber Daniel M.Lancaster County Pennsylvania19th century20th centuryYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1967Export options:Pannabecker - Panabaker: a family history by the late Cornelius Arthur Panabaker about 1960
Type: BookAbstract: Short biographies of members of the Panabaker family, including the author, descendants of pioneer settlers in the Hespeler area in 1810. Many of the family were farmers and some were later ...Keywords: Settlers PennsylvaniaTemperance movementChurches MethodistFarmersWomenTextile IndustryWar 1812World War IPanabaker FamilyPannebecker Nancy Detweiler (m. Cornelius)Year of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1810-1966Export options:President's address: Early settlement in Upper Canada
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A survey of pioneer settlement in Waterloo in the context of early Upper Canada.Keywords: Pennsylvania GermansMennonitesWar 1775-1783 American RevolutionaryUnited Empire LoyalistsIndigenous peoplesYear of publication: 1923Historical Period: 1800-1923Export options:Samuel Betzner
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An obituary for Samuel Betzner (1771- 1856), reprinted from the "Berlin Chronicle" of August 27, 1856.Keywords: Pennsylvania GermansObituariesBiographiesSettlersWaterloo TownshipUpper CanadaBetzner SamuelMennonitesYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1798-1856Export options:The Eby family as related to the Brubachers
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief history of the Eby family's migrations from Switzerland to Pennsylvania and then to Waterloo County. The author explains the Ebys' original connection with the Brubachers through the ...Keywords: GenealogyBiographiesPennsylvania GermansSwissMennonitesEby Ezra E.Eby TheodorusEby ChristianMayer ElizabethBricker CatherineYear of publication: 1923Historical Period: 1800-1923Export options:Why the Bechtel, Biehn, Betzner and Gingrich families chose the Beasley Tract in 1800
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A partly fictionalized account of how the early Pennsylvania Mennonite and Tunker settlers came to Waterloo Township and paid Richard Beasley forty thousand dollars for sixty thousand acres. The ...Keywords: FictionTunkersLand ownershipAgricultureCustoms and traditionsPennsylvania GermansSettlersUpper CanadaWaterloo TownshipGerman languageYear of publication: 1967Historical Period: 1800-1804Export options: