Born: 1896, Died: 1988
Married: Lulu Dierlam
Clayton Dotzert was a man of many talents and experiences. As a young man he worked for the Snyder Desk Company and the Globe Furniture Company. He became very interested in the new invention of the airplane and was one of the individuals responsible for buying the Stroh Farm near Lexington and turning it into a landing field. In 1915 he enlisted as a pilot and served until the end of World War I in England. When he returned from the service in 1919, he, along with brother-in-law Gordon Raymond, started the Quality Glove Company which made high-grade leather work gloves, gauntlets and mitts. In 1923 Dotzert went out on his own, forming the Dotzert Glove Company. He was married to Lulu Dierlam. In 1933 he was appointed the sixth postmaster in Waterloo and remained in that position until his retirement in 1966. Dotzert was a community-minded person and, beginning in 1929, always made a public outdoor ice rink on his property on King St. N. He is credited, in 1934, for naming the Waterloo hockey team the “Siskins” after an English plane used in World War I. In 1950 he was the leader in having 3000 maple trees planted throughout the town. He was a dedicated member of the Waterloo Legion and in 1959 was cited for combining the German and Canadian veterans in Remembrance Day services.
Sources:
Margaret J. Zavaros, Waterloo's Post Office, Waterloo Historical Society , Volume 80, 1992.
Oral History Tape "Clayton Dotzert", Kitchener Public Library.
Kitchener Public Library Vertical file "D"
Clayton W. Wells, A Historical Sketch of the Town of Waterloo Ontario, Waterloo Historical Society, Volume 16, 1928.
Waterloo County Councillors, A Collective Biography, Elizabeth Bloomfield and Linda Foster, Caribou Imprints, 1995.
Clayton Dotzert Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Clayton Dotzert from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- To see the original document please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
- Date of Publication
- 1896
- Date Of Event
- 1896-1988
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Dotzert, Clayton ; Dierlam, Lulu ; Raymond, Gordon
- Corporate Name(s)
- Synder Desk Company ; Globe Furniture Company ; Quality Glove Company ; Dotzert Glove Company
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.50 and ELP 63.43.3
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
Website:
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